The response was typical Yahoo -- no plans at this time. If I use the debug menu to change the browser to MSIE 6.0, the HTML toolbar loads, however, the text field is not accessible.

I am not going to go through all the new interface and feature changes. The Yahoo Mail blog does that well. Here is a bullet list of changes: New interface More social 3rd party apps ...

I have it download my Yahoo mail to a local spool, rather than forward to my pop address and empty my bulk folder. I wrote a script that runs fetchyahoo then opens evolution.