Yahoo Mail Classic Gets Chatty

Yahoo announced that it now offers an SMS chat feature in its classic version of Yahoo Mail, something Gmail has been offering for several months, and Yahoo has been doing in its newer version since 2007.

Google has offered SMS in its chat since October, and Chat in general for quite some time. They have also launched voice and video chat recently.

Anyhow, with Yahoo’s chat you can communicate with other people using Yahoo as well as mobile phones. Product Manager Brandon Savage writes:

How does it work, you ask? Well, when you sign into your Yahoo! Mail Classic account, your Chat & Mobile Text contact list will appear on the left of your screen (you can place it above or below your personal folders, whichever you prefer). If your status says “Offline,” just click on it and select “Available” to sign in (fair warning to Yahoo! Messenger users: signing in here will log you out elsewhere). Once you do, you’ll see a list of all of your Contacts who are online and available to chat. We also show you the names of any Contacts with mobile phone numbers, for mobile texting, of course. Just click on a name to start a conversation!

Mobile Text from Yahoo! Mail Classic

The competition between Yahoo and Google in email certainly does seem to be heating up lately. Back in the summer, Yahoo unveiled its offline email client, which Google has just gotten around to. It will be interesting to see what the market share looks like later in th year.

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Andrew Devore
May 30, 2009 at 3:58 pm

does anyone notice that yahoo chat inside classic no longer works. it just stopped working for me one day. I like classic and want to chat their. How do i turn it back on?

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Frustrated and Pissed
May 18, 2009 at 9:12 pm

This forum says all anyone needs to know about this train wreck, called yahoo chat in classic email

http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2009/01/28/im-sms-in-yahoo-mail-classic/

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  Frustrated and Pissed
  May 18, 2009 at 10:55 pm
  
  I forgot to mention… Gmail was smart about this and lets you use their HTML format only, so if you do not desire all of this crap going on in your email account, you can completely opt out.
  
  Yahoo? nope.
  
  Goodbye yahoo… hello Gmail!
  
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muskan
April 23, 2009 at 9:33 am

i want to use my yahoo classic mail.but i cant access my chat nd mobile text….suddenly it hide .and the box is nt showing there.i was using it but now i want it back in my yahoo classic mail.plz help…

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stellaqizoe
April 6, 2009 at 3:12 am

Yahoo! Mail started rolling out integrated IM and SMS to their Yahoo! Mail Classic users worldwide. Already a popular feature in the new Yahoo! Mail,

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Steve
March 20, 2009 at 2:46 pm

If you’re using Firefox, go to the “TOOLS” menu, click on “OPTIONS” then uncheck the box marked “Enable JavaScript”. This app uses java scripting to run. If you don’t enable JavaScript, it can’t run. Works fine for me and it gets rid of many ads I don’t look at anyway.

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Encar
March 10, 2009 at 8:56 am

I remember a box prompting me about this chat & text box in my yahoo mail but unfortunately..my hands are snappier than my brain and hit the “no thanks” button that I am now regretting fully. Is there any way I can have that again? If so, can you kindly show me how?

Would really appreciate your help.

Thanks,

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Krupa
March 9, 2009 at 4:32 am

hi
I close the chat feature from yahoo mail classis but now i want add that feature on my account will anybody help me how can i use it now?

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Guest
March 5, 2009 at 4:27 pm

How do you DISABLE it PERMANENTLY?

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Vy
February 27, 2009 at 11:21 pm

Hello. I’m using Yahoo!Classic, but I don’t see any contact list …
Can you tell me how to enable chat in my mailbox? Thank you.

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Guest
February 5, 2009 at 11:27 am

YOU NEED TO SEE ME

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Guest
February 5, 2009 at 11:24 am

WHATS UP MY GUY