Here are some of the freshest and best:

• Chat! In mail! That’s right – if you’re writing anyone who’s online with Yahoo! Mail or Messenger, you can contact them instantly if you’d like.
• Get today’s weather for your area (or any location) in the upper-right corner of the Home tab – the first page you see when you sign into Yahoo!Xtra Mail.
• Stay on track with a calendar timeline at the bottom of your Mail window.
• Torch spam without even opening it by clicking the flame icon in your Inbox’s spam column.
• With newly introduced certified mail, be confident that a transactional message in your Inbox isn’t an online scam.
• Drag and drop messages into folders for easy organizing.
• Search for messages containing any word or phrase you want to find with the new super-fast and comprehensive search tool, and improve the precision of your results with search shortcuts.
• Open multiple messages in tabs so you can multitask.
• Read and manage your messages easily with the Reading Pane.
• Work keyboard shortcuts like “n” for a new message or “r” to Reply.
• Navigate from message to message with your arrow keys.

In numerous ways, Yahoo!Xtra Mail works like a desktop application.

But unlike your desktop, it's accessible to you from any Internet-connected computer in the world!