All of the built-in apps worked fine for me, except Mail, which lacks common features like a unified inbox, and an unread-mail folder.

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At first, I thought there was some sort of bug in Yahoo Mail that was causing it to grab subject lines from my spam folder, since many of the messages had that trying-too-hard quality found in spam.

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First up, you can now automatically categorize incoming mail as newsletters, and then either trash 'em or sweep them to a folder.

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