We are pleased to announce that we will shortly be replacing the current Webmail product with a new and improved interface.

New Webmail features include:
• Choice of interface style.
• Advanced HTML editor with Spell checker.
• Tabbed email browsing for quick navigation.
• Advanced Address book with search tools.
• Calendar and Tasks (Advanced Mailboxes).
• Personal Folders to organise emails.
• Sent Mail Folder for all mailboxes.
• Filters to automatically sort new mail.
• Spam Filter Settings (Advanced Mailboxes).
• Comprehensive Help pages.

You won't need to do anything new when we go live – you will log in to the new interface with your usual web address and mailbox login details. Email in existing mailboxes will appear in your new Inbox, and Contacts from the current Webmail will be transferred into your new Address book.

Customers using BT Yahoo! Broadband may find that they are now unable to send emails from Standard POP3 mailboxes. This is due to a security update by BT, who have today announced that they are now preventing BT Yahoo! Broadband users from sending emails from software such as Microsoft Outlook and Thunderbird, when the "From" email address is not a BT Yahoo! email address or a "validated alternative email address". Please refer to the BT Yahoo! Service Status page for more details.

We would like to remind customers that we can provide "Roaming SMTP" with Advanced and Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, enabling you to send email using your PC software, regardless of your broadband provider. Prices start from £20 per annum ex VAT.

A recent update to Internet Explorer may appear to break some websites that use:

Flash
Java
RealPlayer
ActiveX

Website visitors may be asked to click on such content before they are able to use it.

All Internet Explorer users are affected by this update, which is in response to a lawsuit brought by Eolas Technologies, holder of a patent on embedded content in web pages. Both Microsoft and Adobe/Macromedia have guides on how you can use JavaScript to make your content work as intended:

Macromedia
Microsoft

If your website visitors use a non-Microsoft browser, such as Firefox or Safari, they won’t be affected for the time being.