The Yahoo! photomail is small program that boasts of making sending photos easier. It is The program has a Photo search feature that scans your computer for picture files. The whole concept is simple, a quicker way to send your photos.

Now the story begins. After reading about photomail somewhere, I first logged into my Yahoo mail. What i got was an "Account Deactivated" message. That was obvious because i never log in to yahoo mail, I never even use my yahoo mail id, except for the messenger.

The page gave me two simple choices.

( Pure marketing! By the way, who pays for email these days ? ! )
Reactivate my account without protection
I don't want to risk losing important messages and contact information stored in my mail account. I would like to subscribe to Yahoo! Mail Plus so that my account will not be deactivated again in the future if I don't use it for four months.

Reactivate and protect my Yahoo! Mail account in the future
I know that my account will be deactivated again in the future if I do not log in for a four-month period. I understand that I will risk losing valuable email messages and other important information.

Isn't the second option kind of threatening. It sure creates a slight fear for an average user. The text sounds dumb too

Without any thinking, I moved forward with the second option. Then weird enough, I got a page saying that " Sorry, we cant log you in blah blah... Please try refreshing blah.. blah..". I tried refreshing atleast ten times and I ended up logging in with IE, it worked fine then. Then I again tried with Firefox and it worked this time.

A page full of ads welcomed me, no improvement, same mailbox as before three years Next I went to photomail.yahoo.com and to my surprise, I saw this there ! We're sorry, but your computer doesn't currently meet the system requirements for PhotoMail What in the heavens !! Yeah, it required IE 5.5+ , it even had a link to IE's download site. Nevermind, a user has to bear everything the provider imposes. Anyway, I finally installed the client (it was a browser install).

Now the dumbest thing of all, after a successfull installation, I first looked on my desktop and the programs menu, but could find no traces of the installation. I then went to Yahoo! mail and open the compose page. I then tried the attach files option but could find no signs of the photomail client there.

WHERE in the heavens is this thing! Is it there or am I dumb??