You’ve stumbled upon a temporary problem we’re having with Yahoo! Mail. Usually this problem gets resolved quickly, without you doing a thing.

OK, fine — I can handle these errors once in a while, but lately I can’t seem to consistently get an Inbox or search for emails with any results. Especially when I need them, and the nature of what I use email for causes me to need it now. After some problems earlier this month w/ my main Yahoo! Mail account, I’ve decided to take my “hobby” mail account and try Gmail w/ it. This is a big step for me, because:

• I don’t like way Gmail looks, it’s information overload with all the message previews and such.
• I can’t find anything. I’ve been using Yahoo! mail for 10 years (it seems like 10 years anyway) and GMail isn’t that intuitive for me.
• I’m a loyalist and have always had such a good experience with Yahoo! Mail.

For whatever the reasons, here I go off into Gmail land for a 1-week trial. I’ll be back in 7 days to write about how it went.