Boxbe, in collaboration with Yahoo!, has expunged the Waiting List message layout issue! Click here for original issue announcement.
Yahoo! account waiting lists are now back in top working order. We thank you for your patience and immutable user-ship!
Due to a display problem introduced in a recent Yahoo upgrade, you may have discovered that messages in your Waiting List are showing up a little strange looking…see sample picture for reference. The body of the message is showing up twice and the convenience links that Boxbe provides are not in the place they should be.
Along with Yahoo!, we are pursuing a fix for this bug at this very moment. We thank you for your patience as we enjoy tackling the intruding gremlin.
We are still experiencing a service outage for a number of our members and are still working with Yahoo! Mail to fix the problem.
We have fixed a problem for users whose accounts are being enabled (and subsequently disabled again) receiving multiple notifications regarding the service going up and down.
If you have received numerous messages regarding the status of your account, you shouldn’t receive any more until we’ve resolved this issue.
Sorry for the delay in reactivating Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail, but rest assured we are tirelessly working on getting service working again.
On Friday, we experienced a service outage for some of our Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail users that is still affecting users today. While the service is still working for most, an issue with the Yahoo! Mail API is preventing us from reinstating service completely.
We are actively working with Yahoo! to reinstate Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail for the affected users.
We’re terribly sorry for any inconvenience that this may be causing you, but rest assured we will have the service up and and running as soon as humanly possible.
We will keep you posted on the Boxbe Blog as we get to the bottom of this issue.
We’ve been busy here at Boxbe HQ making improvements to our service to make Boxbe easier to use and better integrated into your email workflow.
Here are some of the features we’ve just launched:
Wondering why some messages from approved senders weren’t making it to your inbox? The new system allows messages from approved senders even if they fail authentication.
A simpler Guest List to make your life easier.
Use Boxbe’s convenient list of retailers, mailing lists, banks, social networks and other automated senders (no marketing or advertising emails, of course). It’s one more way Boxbe helps you save time.
Many of you told us you don’t want to send Courtesy Notices to people not on your Guest List. They are now optional and they give you more control.
Choose who receives courtesy notices here.
Thanks for using Boxbe and we hope you like our new features. We love your feedback and we live on it. Please let us know what you think by responding to this email or emailing us at support@boxbe.com.
Update 3: 3:40 PM May 6, 2008
We’re back!!
Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail is up and running. We’re sorry again for this inconvenience. We’ll post a further explanation later and measures that we are taking to avoid future outages.
We launched Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail back in the fall. Here is a quick overview of how it works.
No need to come to the Boxbe Web site to view messages on your Waiting List. We’ll move all your unwanted messages into a new folder in your existing Yahoo! Mail account.
Your Boxbe Waiting List folder will contain all the messages from guests you haven’t yet approved.
If you decide a message isn’t junk, clicking the “Approve” link from within the message in the Waiting List adds the sender to your Guest List and moves the message into your Yahoo! Mail inbox.
Finally, when you send an email to a new friend, you have the option of adding them automatically to your Guest List. The idea here is that you don’t want people you’ve emailed to have take a test or pay a fee to email you back.
Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail is easy to set up and it’s absolutely free.
(Not a Yahoo! Mail user? Boxbe works with Gmail and a plugin for Microsoft Outlook is currently in beta testing.)