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Mike Robuck of Mobile World Live reports on a new SMS and call spam protection option for Verizon Wireless users here in the US: an updated free Call Filter app.I just downloaded it myself and it seemed pretty easy to set up. I recommend checking it out. Of course, they immediately tried to upsell me to a paid version, but I’m going with just the free version for now (I already do pay them quite a bit of money every month). The ability to report phone numbers as spammy, and benefit from others reporting phone numbers as spammy, is a wonderful thing to see here — Google Voice has had something similar to this for a long time now and I’ve wished for the same thing at the mobile provider level.Read the article here and then head on over here to learn more from Verizon and/or to download the app.
By Lili Crowley, Lead PostmasterWhen we launched our new developer and sender focused portal last year, it was not just a step towards creating a better home for those tools and features. We also laid the foundation to eventually move our postmaster tools and information under the same roof – to truly create a single home for anything our senders and partners might be looking for. Now we did just that. We are calling it The Sender Hub. You will now find our sending best practices and our postmaster FAQs alongside our BIMI and AMP requirements as well as more information about our Yahoo Mail Image Proxy and other valuable information and documentation.We also sent our old support forms into retirement. They showed signs of old age and once in a while forgot who was talking to them. The shiny new ones should connect trusted senders much faster with the…
By Elizabeth ZwickyThis all started out as a question we received. Well, it’s more like a FAQ really. Because of that and because the answer turned out to be a bit longer, we thought we might as well post this here. And so we did. If you do need to send large, one-time email campaigns, be it because you are legally required to do so or because certain business needs arose, there are certain things you need to keep in mind and certain best practices to follow.These steps are roughly in order of importance. Have a valid reason for sending the mail to the accounts you’re sending to, like “They asked for it” or “We are legally required to send this mail to these accounts”.Distinguish the sending from your normal sending with a new From: address; you don’t need to change the domain, although many senders have other practical considerations…
It’s time for your periodic BIMI adoption status update. A quick overview of what this is all about: BIMI is a standard being adopted by multiple internet services providers (ISPs) to allow the display of a sender’s logo along side email messages, when displayed on a mobile device or in a webmail client. Some ISPs and mail clients have had a sender logo display function for a while now (one example is Gravatar), but BIMI is an attempt to standardize and regulate this mechanism across the email ecosystem.Adoption by senders seems a bit slow; but the spec only went public in 2019, which isn’t that long ago. Also, it suffers a bit from the “chicken and egg” problem — it’s hard to convince senders to adopt the standard if receivers haven’t adopted support for the standard. But now with two of the top three B2C mailbox providers (Yahoo and Gmail) having BIMI support, I’m…
By Kaivalya Gandhi, Senior Product ManagerThe holiday season is upon us, and with that comes the annual tradition of nabbing the latest deals for items on our wishlist. Whether it be Black Friday or Cyber Monday, these once single-day events have morphed into weeks of shopping. Brands invest billions in marketing campaigns to reach consumers digitally and remain top of mind during purchasing decisions. However, inboxes are inundated with emails trying to get our attention, induce FOMO, and win a share of our wallets.At Yahoo, we’re passionate about building an inbox that helps our users focus on what matters to them. Today, we’re launching a new Shopping view to help users save time staying on top of communications from the brands they love. We’re transforming mail into a mall made for you.Yahoo Mail users will see the brands they engage with most automatically organized in a carousel, with the ability…
By Marcel Becker, Sr Director Product ManagementThe first ever email sent over a network – the beginning of email as we use it today – was sent 50 years ago, in October 1971 by MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson.Ray Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) introduced the convention of the ‘@’ symbol to identify a message recipient on a remote computer system, and using this ‘@’ symbol format, Ray was the first person to send an email between two computers.Ray sent the first email to himself, with the email travelling 10 feet between two computers he was testing on in a building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ray has stated when interviewed that the first email was “something like QWERTYUIOP”.Creating email was a side project at work for Ray, and when he showed email to another employee for the first time, he reportedly said: “Don’t tell anyone! This isn’t what we’re…
Yahoo is Yahoo again! The entity that runs the servers hosting the mailboxes for AOL and Yahoo is now called Yahoo Inc, as of September 1st, 2021. No more Verizon Media.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a BIMI status update, and things are changing! Things are standardizing! Things are getting good. So, let’s get right to it…
By Marcel Becker, Sr Director Product ManagementOur mission is to deliver the best consumer email experience. That means investing in our applications we build and offer to our users. But it also means working with the email sender and developer community and offering unique features and tools which will further enhance emails and the experience for our mutual customers. Today, we are delighted to unveil the new sender focused portal at https://developer.verizonmedia.com/mail. It highlights features like AMP for email, BIMI, Promotions and others. It’s a place to find documentation and examples but also get support and questions answered. This is only the beginning. We’d love to hear what you think about the new portal! Reach out to us with suggestions or questions: mail-questions@verizonmedia.com.
By Marcel Becker, Director Product ManagementWhen our customers’ favorite brands send them an email, it should be a great experience. Email should no longer come in the form of a flyer – static, boring and stale – but rather, an interactive and dynamic way for consumers to do what they want and need to do as quickly and conveniently as possible.We are now proud to announce the launch of AMP for Email in Yahoo Mail – an email experience that is only the best for our customers.It will deliver on that promise as it will allow our users to get things done within the inbox, making email truly actionable without the need to click links and navigate or sign into other websites or apps on the web or mobile devices.While we currently limit AMP support to Yahoo Mail on the web, we are excited to share our learnings to make…