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Yahoo Ups Mail to Match Google's Gig

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-good-for-them dept.

Bruce Young writes "Yahoo said late Tuesday that it will provide 1 gigabyte of storage for each free e-mail account. The current limit is 250 megabytes. The expanded storage which will be available in mid-April will enable Yahoo to catch up with online search engine leader Google. "

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  1. Pop Access? by FinchWorld · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yahoo got that yet? Last i checked they didn't, which means you got to go through all of Yahoo's webmail interface.

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    1. Re:Pop Access? by wscott · · Score: 5, Informative
      use fetchyahoo. I use that to automatically forward all my yahoo mail to my gmail account. ;-)

      The gmail web interface just blows aways anything yahoo provides. The 1Gig is not the real selling point. Now I just wish ebay would hire the google engineers to redesign their interface.

    2. Re:Pop Access? by Bronster · · Score: 3, Informative

      Disclaimer: I work for FastMail.

      If you want control over your email (and no evil search engine companies leveraging their giant database of email for nefarious purposes, natch) you're better off with something like FastMail. The free offering isn't quite so fancy, but the paid options rock.

      In particular, our highest fee paying accounts now get to send and receive up to 50MB of attachments with an email, and that's a full 50MiB (including room for encoding in the Postfix limits)

      Our interface is more designed around the IMAP protocol than Gmail, since that's what we use internally - and we offer (optionally) encrypted IMAP for everyone and encrypted POP & Auth SMTP for all paying users.

      You also get a web site and file storage space which you can access directly from emails to attach or detach files, etc... but I'm not going to detail all the features here - just point out that the big names don't always offer the best features.

  2. Re:So "FU" Mail Plus users? by davidmcg · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Register states paid subscribers are getting upgraded to 2GB and can send attachments upto 20mb.

  3. Like the size matters? by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's more to Gmail than the 1GB account limit. The sooner that Microsoft, Yahoo and everyone else realise this the better.

    I've had a Hotmail account for almost 10 years now (way before Microsoft got it hands on it) and a Gmail account for just under a year too. In the last three years Hotmail has been going backwards, especially with regards to interoperability with browsers other than MSIE (every iteration has broken something or another) and core features. It's clear that Microsoft's strategy is to push people to pay for the premium Hotmail Plus service and to do that it's happy to let the free service atrophy to the minimum possible standards. Meanwhile, with Gmail the focus seems to be on providing as good a HTML-based email application as possible.

    I haven't had as much experience of Yahoo's mail service (I've got an account, but only because one was created automatically when I wanted to use another of their services) but from what I've seen it's little different to Hotmail.

    Gmail wins vs Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, etc in so many ways. The interface, the features (message threads, labels, etc) are just superior to what the competition has to offer and it's these reasons rather than the default account size that makes Gmail the best at what it does.

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  4. Re:Google catch-up TODO list by Laurentiu · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dude, you're missing the point. I don't want an e-mail account that also does dishes. Oh wait... Damn! Anyway, nothing you have there on your list is actually an improvement of the mailer interface. I don't care about Outlook - although, by the way: You can import address books from Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo!, orkut, and other services to your Gmail account. I don't need a messenger to read e-mails. I don't want alerts and reminders on my cell phone/PDA/whatever - especially when some spammer decided to spoil my dinner. And if I want to be able to read mail on my PDA, all I need is a POP3 enabled mailer. I don't want to store my files online - although I could use GmailFS, or just send myself an e-mail with attachments. And I certainly don't care about discussion groups integrated in my e-mailer - although, again incidentally, reading discussion groups in GMail is a treat, due to the interface. Sorry, no go. Try again?

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  5. Re:I don't have a yahoo account... by bwcarty · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yahoo also appends an advertisement to the bottom of messages you send out.

  6. Re:Ooooh good... by earthbound+kid · · Score: 3, Informative
    ...that means more room for all the spam, pr0n and other guff I get cos of using my yahoo account to 'register' for stuff. Even better - I only have to visit it once a year or even every two to empty it all out.


    I know you're just trying to be funny, but actually Yahoo doesn't count the stuff in its spam box towards your 250mb total, so you already didn't actually have to empty it unless you wanted to. I don't know if the new TOS with the gig will change this though.
  7. Re:I don't have a yahoo account... by umpa · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use Adblock for Firefox.

    Now I don't see graphical ads in yahoo mail.

  8. Hotmail prevents searching at 10mb of mail by purduephotog · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just went a few rounds with hotmail's CSRs- the mail search feature has disappeared.

    So I wrote and asked, and they said after 10 meg you can no longer search in the message body, just subject and to/from.

    They then point to a little known clause in section 11 of their TOS- Hotmail can do anything to their service they want to without informing said end users.

    Full conversational email available (in broken indian-ese) if you'd like it.

  9. Re:So "FU" Mail Plus users? by Tim+Macinta · · Score: 3, Informative

    My Mail Plus account was upgraded to 2G last year, whenever it was that they last increased their free storage. Note that The Register doesn't say that Mail Plus users are getting "upgraded", just that they will be getting 2G. I would guess that this means that either we won't be getting another bump in storage or Yahoo! hasn't announced that yet (or that The Register is unaware of it, at least).

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  10. Re:I don't have a yahoo account... by ZiakII · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yahoo mail also allows POP3 access.

    Google does allow this as well, I just did it for my home and work computer 1 month ago, below is the attached site that shows you how to do so.

    http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answ er=13273