Yahoo mail turns 16 today, and in celebration Yahoo is giving all their mail users presents.
The screenshots of the new interface look modern and useable. We’ll see how this plays out.
Looking back through the month of September there were a couple things talked about on the blog.
Read MoreTechcrunch says Yahoo is announcing a new “this is not me” button for email sent to recovered addresses.
Read MoreFor a while, Yahoo was giving preferential “images always on” treatment to Return Path Certified senders. The tricky part of this was the senders had to register a DKIM selector key with Yahoo. I had a lot of (somewhat rude) things to say about this particular design decision.
Over the last few months, a number of senders have complained about being unable to update their selector keys with Yahoo. (Insert more rude comments about how broken it is to use the selector as a part of reputation.) Around the same time, a few of us have noticed that Yahoo seems to be turning on a lot of images by default. A few of the ESP delivery folks collaborated with me on checking into this. They could confirm that images were on by default for some of their customers without certification and without selector key registration.
Earlier this week, Return Path sent out an email to users that said that Yahoo would no longer be turning images on by default for Return Path Certified IPs.