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Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail
coleslawjoe writes "This article at New York Times explains that Yahoo has decided to boost their E-mail space (Soul sucking registration required) from their current 4 megabytes to 100 in response to Gmail. They are also planning to offer 2 gig mailboxes for $19.99(USD)."
Looks like only 2 of my 3 Yahoo! accounts got the boost overnight? Anyone know more details about the rollout? polymorpheus
no registration required
Nope, it seems that all sites powered by Akamai are unreachable right now...
....right here.
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Mail Options->General Preferences->Messages per page
Hotmail: 2 megabytes
Hotmail is still their main competitor, at least until Gmail comes out of beta and everyone and their mother can sign up for an account.
My .co.uk address is still stuck on 6Mb - although I have been getting free POP access ever since they started charging .com accounts for it, so it's not all bad news.
Akamai's DNS servers appear to be MIA. Did someone find the Akamai Achilles heel?
This means Microsoft.com, Applce.com, Google.com and many other sites don't resolve right now. Oops.
"The truth shall make ye fret" -- The Truth, Terry Pratchett
ISP's come and go
Yahoo has done this for a while, create a folder and put anything you want to save in the folder.
So go download a thing called yahoopops (or whatever it's called, google is down right now or I'd link it). It lets you check your yahoo email with a standard email client. So just download it then delete everything you don't think you'll need to access from anywhere.
Okay google's back here's the url: http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/
coupled with some of the best spam-filtering available
Really? Is that why my girlfriend's Yahoo account constantly puts the announcements (an opt-in listserv list mind you) for our local young professionals organization into her "bulk mail" folder? No matter how many times she hits "This is not spam" (or whatever the button is called) it keeps doing it.
Sorry but I'd rather have spams make it through then drop my legitimate e-mails. Yahoo's spam filter is a joke.
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
You're right. I just logged in and got this page:
Welcome to the new and improved
Yahoo! Mail Plus.
Thanks for being a loyal Yahoo! Mail user. We've made some great changes to Mail Plus, effective immediately! You'll have all the features of your current Yahoo! Mail Plus account, and many more - at no additional cost*!
Here's even more to love about Yahoo! Mail Plus:
* No graphical ads
When you're using the Mail web interface, your experience will be even more enjoyable.
* Streamlined interface
Makes using your mail even easier.
* Virtually unlimited storage
A whopping 2GB means you should never have to worry about managing storage again! Keep thousands of messages, photos, and documents - think of it as your online archive.
People don't like changing their e-mail address, any more than they like changing their phone number
Here's a tip for those people: get your own domain name. Costs you about 10 bucks a year. The better domain name companies (like my personal favorite gandi.net) provide included email and web forwarding. That way you can keep the same email address for the rest of your life even when you switch mailboxes.
Also, if you rent dns service, you can finetune your mail forwarding to have different email addresses on the same domain leading to different mailboxes. And if you've got an always-on internet connection you can make your domain forward to your home box through free dynamic ip services, like from dyndns.org, so that you could for example run your own jabber server, or have an ssh login permanently available where ever you are to access stuff on your home machine (which coupled with quickly downloaded sftp clients like winscp allows you to copy files over quickly and easily regardless of location).
...and pop access
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RTFM. From the article:
Yahoo's increased storage calls into question its longstanding business of selling larger mailboxes to its users. Its prices have ranged from $9.99 a year for a 10-megabyte mailbox, to $49.99 a year for 100 megabytes, the size it now offers free. Customers of the services will be converted to Yahoo's new two-gigabyte Plus service. Customers who are content with the 100-megabyte free account will be able to request refunds.
3 things GMail has won me over Yahoo.
1. No ads
2. Email address completion works under FireFox, Safari, IE. Yahoo's completion only works for IE and you need to download a program.
3. You can enable SSL for the entire connection, not just at login.
Of course, there's no virus scanner and no import/export of contacts, but hopefully, Google will be taking care of this.
All-in-all, GMail feels a lot like a standalone app while Yahoo (still) feels more like a web app (press a link/button, and watch the screen refresh).
They've also removed all ads, etc. But access seems REALLY slow. Probably everyone logging in at once to check it out...
Ok, everyone, quit with this binary mode of thinking For whatever impact this has on Google, this is *good* news. How many of you will have one google account or yahoo account only?
Just as Google is a lot more than the search engine, having a Yahoo identity is useful for more than just email.
In fact, I probably spend more time on Yahoo than on any other site these days
- Customized news,
- Finances,
- Movies,
- Maps,
- Groups...
- some shopping (though I use other services more often.)
- I'm constantly logged in to Yahoo's IM,
- sometimes use the Video Conferencing feature.
- I'll also play Yahoo Games,
- use calendar features at times.
- Yahoo's has the best solution for maintaining several identities
- I use at least one for Work, (As a consultant, I use one identity for each client)
- one for long term personal,
- one for short term personal.
Hell, on a daily basis, I probably use more resources from Yahoo than I do from any other media source including Google and TV.
100 MB will do it for me. It means that people can send me larger attachments, and I can keep some of them online. I also use YahooPOPs to pull my email onto my personal HD, so I don't anticipate having storage problems. Further, I'll still register for Gmail when it becomes available.
I've been using Yahoo! since the 6MB days. When I got my gmail invite, I approached it with an open mind. It reeled me in hook, line and sinker.
1) It's a clean interface. For the last 2 years I've been using Opera with Yahoo Mail just to apply a custom style sheet so I didn't have to see the horrid ads they put everywhere. Some were nearing seizure inducing. Oh? Yahoo mail cleaned their interface up you tell me? Yes... in response to gmail. That doesn't excuse the fact that without gmail, they thought it was OK to plaster my mail with ads.
2) Yahoo still has a tagline at the end of every mail. Will gmail? I don't know. But this is about how i still hate yahoo.
3) It's slow. It's always been slow. you have to reload the whole page to check for new mail. (no, I'm not going to run their messanger to check my mail, thanks). gmail has a nice 2-minute pooling feature.
4) Why is it so slow? They got rid of the graphical ads. I really thought that was most of the slow.
5) Slow. Will gmail be slow after beta? I don't know. But this is about how i still hate yahoo.
The 2GB option for paying users features search.
Quit modding it. :P
Check out Nexic's Personal Publisher. It doesn't give you a PST file, but it does archive your email.
Or if you really want a PST, open your GW mailbox with outlook as a front-end(assuming you are on a live system, and not just POP3).
That Anonymous Coward guy posts a lot of stuff!
I have both a GMail and Yahoo account right now and I think things are still tilted more in Yahoo's favour than Google's though as GMail is still in beta this could change before they go live.
The Addressbook in GMail is extremely minimal. All you can record is the name (one field, no separate fields for first and last name etc.), a single email address (a lot of people I know have both a personal and work address) and some freeform notes. Yahoo (and Hotmail) have substantially better Addressbooks with Hotmail being the best of the lot in my opinion.
It'll be interesting to see how well less sophisticated (er...less technically inclined) users will adapt to GMail's idea of labels instead of hierarchical folders or if they'll quickly abandon it in favour of what they are used to.
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