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Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the battle-of-bits-and-bytes dept.

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)."

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  1. not all accts upgraded yet? by polymorpheus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like only 2 of my 3 Yahoo! accounts got the boost overnight? Anyone know more details about the rollout? polymorpheus

    1. Re:not all accts upgraded yet? by endx7 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Looks like only 2 of my 3 Yahoo! accounts got the boost overnight? Anyone know more details about the rollout?

      My old yahoo account still has 6 megabytes. Yes, I got it back in a time when they gave you 6, not 4 meg. It hasn't gotten upgraded to 100 meg yet. (I didn't even know they had started doing the upgrade yet).

  2. no registration needed link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    no registration required

  3. Re:aah, yahoo is /.'d! by lintux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, it seems that all sites powered by Akamai are unreachable right now...

  4. Re:annoying I can only delete 25 messages at a tim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mail Options->General Preferences->Messages per page

  5. Looks like it only applies to .com's by Spad · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:And when it's full... by glaHHg · · Score: 4, Informative

    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/

  7. Re:100mb? WOW! by Shakrai · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  8. Re:Yahoo Support by Ctrl-Z · · Score: 4, Informative
    Does this help?
    1. Go to http://www.yahoo.com/.
    2. Click on "Help".
    3. Click on "Mail" under "Help by Feature or Service".
    4. Click on "How do I contact Yahoo! Mail Customer Care?" under "Contacting Yahoo! Mail Customer Care".
    5. Press the "No" button beside "Click No to contact Yahoo! Customer Care.".
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