The BBC reports that “Yahoo is letting web programmers get their hands on the core code for its e-mail program. By opening up the code Yahoo hopes to help create a series of innovative ways to deal with e-mail messages. Eventually it said there could be “tens of thousands” of add-ons and extras for the e-mail reader”.Further,”although Yahoo plans to keep control of the code that deals with user names and passwords, programmers will be able to tinker with almost every other part of the e-mail reading program. Yahoo Mail has more than 257 million registered accounts.The initiative could result in new looks for the Yahoo e-mail reader, innovative ways to display messages to get a quick idea of message contents or a series of add-ons that do more with the information found in mail messages”.

Yahoo opens up its e-mail program