Elinor Mills
Yahoo unveiled a limited public beta of its new Yahoo Mail service on Wednesday, featuring a new desktop email application-type interface and faster response time.
As first reported in June, the new Yahoo Mail beta features email caching, message preview, drag-and-drop filing, the ability to quickly search email headers, body text and attachments and the ability to view multiple emails at the same time in separate windows and scroll through all message headers in a folder rather than one page at a time.
In addition, the new version adds address auto-complete, right-click menus and standard keyboard shortcuts.
The beta will be available to a limited group of Yahoo Mail users in the US and will be expanded to include users worldwide in coming months, Yahoo said. Users can choose to use the new version, stick with the older version, or switch between the two.
The amount of storage remains at 1GB for the free service.
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