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Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-less-address-to-block dept.

NetSerf2000 writes: "I just saw an article on the Register that Yahoo is giving users of it's email service until the 24th of April to make a decision about forking out $19.99 for the first year. Yahoo states that this is so it can 'improve' service quality and 'reduce" spam.' The report says that it's the mailing forwarding and POP3 services, so I'm not sure that it affects the Webmail service; if it reduces the spam coming out of Yahoo!, that'd be one less domain I have to filter into "Spam," which would be nice.

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  1. It's pretty fair... by rodbegbie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're using the forwarding or POP3, then you're not viewing the web-page adverts that are Yahoo's bread & butter.

    So you'd be paying not to see adverts. What a zany idea.

    rOD.

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    Rod Begbie done this, and he's not
  2. What is needed from a for-pay mail provider. by sportal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yahoo! are you listening: Here is what I want from a for-pay email provider

    As myself and other people start using more and more wireless networks (specifically public wireless networks), I have realized that there is no email provider that offers the proper services:
    • IMAP via TLS & SSL
    • SMTP via TLS & SSL with Auth - Allowing you to send mail from any return address after you have already authenticated
    • POP via SSL
    • WebMail via Full SSL (not just the login)
    • Allow you to forward your other email accounts to it
    • Allow you to send from a return email address of your other account (i.e. yourname@yourcompanyemail.com).
    • Fetchmail functions for automatic downloading of your other email accounts.
    • A reasonable amount of disk storage
    • The option to download your email for offline archiving
    If other email providers are listening or someone wants a quick business idea, start providing secure email services, and no Hushmail doesn't count because the don't offer POP, IMAP or SMTP. And no I don't want to host this email on my home server like I already do. It needs to something that the mass populous can be referred to.

    Sidenote to the Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink and other top email providers. Please start requiring secure login protocols (no cleartext passwords). The average user is never going to click on that extra link for an SSL login page.