Yahoo adds Gmail support to Mail app

What the app didn’t have was support for Gmail.

Yahoo is trying to rectify that omission now.

“All the features you need and love in Yahoo Mail – powerful search, smart contacts, rich compose features and Yahoo Account Key for password-free sign-in – are now available with Gmail,” wrote Shiv Shankar, Yahoo senior product manager, in a blog post. “You can now search across your entire history of e-mails, from day one, for all connected mailboxes,” – not just the most recent e-mails, “which is how it’s done in many apps today”.

Multiple mailbox support for Gmail within Yahoo Mail is available everywhere today in the Yahoo Mail app and on the desktop browser, according to Yahoo. To connect a user’s Gmail account, she simply needs to go into her Account Settings.

Shakar also noted in the post that when someone is using Yahoo Mail and composes an e-mail, she can send it from any account she’s connected to.

Every action, like moving and deleting e-mails and marking e-mails as read, is synced across all mailboxes.

Other Yahoo Mail features that can be used across Gmail e-mails include signing in on the mobile app with a Yahoo Account key, instead of a password; easily adding photos, videos and GIFs to emails and searching all connected mail boxes.

Yahoo’s e-mail news comes the same week that the company announced it is spinning off its core Internet business.The company initially had talked about spinning off its stake in Chinese retail giant Alibaba, but largely because of fears of extensive tax liability, the board instead decided to hold onto Alibaba and spin off nearly everything else.

Maynard Webb, head of Yahoo’s board of directors, said this week that the firm is not actively looking for a buyer for the Internet business but that the firm would consider any serious offer.

IDG News Service