Yahoo has added a small but useful feature to its Web mail service that lets users filter the contents of their inbox to see only the messages from their contacts. This means that if someone's not on your contacts whitelist, you don't see their message.
Short of Yahoo Mail's built-in filters and its connections sorting, this is one of the simpler ways to cut out any inbox clutter from people you don't know. However, there's some work involved on your part to build that list of contacts. To enable the feature, users must first create a Yahoo profile over at profiles.yahoo.com. Then whoever you've added as a contact has to give you their blessing that they know you too--the same way it works in Yahoo's photo property Flickr.
Besides sorting by connections, users will soon be able to sort by contacts. Here's what the inbox looks like before the sort.
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And here's what it looks like after the sort.
(Credit: Yahoo)One area where this terminology might confuse users is the difference between "contacts" and "connections."Yahoo Mail's help section refers to connections as "contacts with special status." In the case of mail, what makes them special is that you've interacted with them frequently, so the product assumes you know them. Contacts, on the other hand must be manually added, either through mail, or over on Yahoo's profiles site.
Yahoo Mail's senior product manager Rick Pal says this feature will only be available for Yahoo Mail users in the U.S. and Australia, and won't be rolling out to all accounts until a "few weeks" from now.
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