Yahoo plans to invite a “sizable” portion of its current email account holders to experiment with a sleeker version of its free email service.


Yahoo Inc. will begin testing a sleeker version of its free email service. Using “dynamic” html, Yahoo’s email accounts will feature an inbox containing all emails on the top of the page with a separate pane for reading email below it. The feature is meant to enable users to scroll through an email folder without having to click back and forth between Web pages.

With its changes, Yahoo’s email will look more like a traditional inbox that operates through a software program installed on a computer hard drive instead of being hosted on the Internet.

The email was beta tested with a selected few who were invited to test it and now it will be available to a “sizable” portion of its current account holders.

Yahoo imported most of the changes from Oddpost, an email startup the company bought for an undisclosed amount last year.

According comScore Media Metrix, a research firm, Yahoo’s email service had 63.6 million unique U.S. visitors during July, AOL ranked second with 48.7 million visitors followed by MSN’s Hotmail (44.4 million), Comcast Corp.’s Webmail (5.6 million) and Google’s Gmail (5.4 million).

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