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31st

Yahoo! Mail to offer unlimited storage capacity

Author: Jam | Filed under Computer, Google, Internet

As celebration for their 10-year anniversary, Yahoo! Mail will offer unlimited mail storage capacity starting on May 2007 as announced on Tuesday.

The free version of Yahoo! Mail (basic), which is used by majority of users, offers only 1GB of storage and limited features such as the limited 10MB attachments. You need to upgrade to Yahoo! Mail plus to get more features you want including a “virtually unlimited” 2GB mail storage capacity and larger attachments.

Yahoo! Mail used to be the “giant” in mail industry but when Google started Gmail, millions have converted to it as their primary e-mail provider. This was due to the larger storage capacity - 2GB - and several other great features.

As a Yahoo! Mail user, this may sound great (err, or not). This would mean that you will have more storage for spam messages (or you could say, a potential attractant for more spam) due to their inefficient e-mail spam filter. Other than that, I find this “upgrade” unnecessary. I think Yahoo! Mail should upgrade more of their spam filtering and virus scanning feature. Perhaps they should get an idea from the great features of Gmail. That would be more attractive to users.


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8 responses. Wanna say something?

  1. Aja Lapus
    Mar 31, 2007 at 19:43:32
    #1

    I still am using my Yahoo! Mail account as a “registration” email for most unimportant Web services I use—I somehow call it my “spam” inbox. But, I don’t think I’d go back to using it as my primary inbox anytime soon since Google Apps for Your Domain still has a “virtually unlimited”, 2-Gibibyte cap, which is more than enough for my needs.

  2. Jam
    Mar 31, 2007 at 19:59:20
    #2

    I am still on a Yahoo! Mail because I could say I am more used to it, somehow. I think I am used to receiving spam with my Yahoo! Mail account so I can still tolerate it. Haha. I have Gmail account though which I rarely use.

  3. Jaypee
    Apr 2, 2007 at 13:13:22
    #3

    I’ve been using Yahoo as my primary email account for the past few years but now, I’m slowly shifting to Gmail. And yeah, one of the main reasons is the spam filter. :)

  4. jhay
    Apr 2, 2007 at 20:03:03
    #4

    Never fancied Yahoo Mail since I viewed my very first webpage years ago.

    My first e-mail account was a Hotmail account. I still use it, but I love Gmail. The only reason I had a yahoo mail was because I needed an id for Yahoo chat messenger. ;)

  5. vance
    Apr 2, 2007 at 21:29:28
    #5

    well, i read a topic about this somewhere. I doubt yahoo will be able to maintain that. won’t it slow their servers downs? daming magaaccess ng service nila.

    I used both yahoo and gmail. my gmail is for personal use while my 2 yahoo accounts for spam and online service mails.

  6. Neeraj
    May 16, 2007 at 14:41:32
    #6

    Exactly when in MAY it will be available to users..

  7. Jam
    May 17, 2007 at 21:33:16
    #7

    This was what I have read in their blog:

    As promised, we’ve started to roll out unlimited email storage to Yahoo! Mail users worldwide today. When it hits your account, you’ll notice the storage meter has disappeared — meaning, you just don’t have to worry about deleting old messages ever again!

    As a reminder, while we wish we could simply flip a switch and “unlimit” everyone at once, we’ll be rolling this out over a few months to facilitate a smooth transition. Thanks for your patience.

    Happy emailing!

    John Kremer
    Vice President, Yahoo! Mail

  8. selling toronto homes
    Jun 15, 2008 at 02:41:50
    #8

    I use yahoo only when I need it to sign in on yahoo Messenger

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