Yahoo! Mail is a free web mail service provided by Yahoo!. It was inaugurated in 1997. According to comScore, Yahoo! Mail is the second largest web-based e-mail service with 273.1 million users as of November 2010.
Currently, Yahoo! offers three versions of Yahoo! Mail: the traditional full-page-scroll "Yahoo! Mail Classic," which continues the availability of the simpler 1997-2006 interface for the brand's considerable installed base of users, an Outlook-like Ajax interface based upon code the company acquired from Oddpost in 2004, and "Yahoo Mail Beta" which includes a new design and reportedly enhanced performance, improved search functionality, and improved Facebook integration. In early 2008, Yahoo! started offering unlimited mail storage to its users, in response to heated competition in the free-web mail market segment.
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On June 27, 2009, Yahoo! Messenger was integrated with Yahoo! Mail.
History
he history of Yahoo! Mail began with Yahoo!'s resident investment banker around November 1996, who dealt with every Yahoo! acquisition since it was created. According to them, the main question was always to consider whether to "build, buy or rent." The answer really depended on the growth of competitors and the current position of the company. The main reason to buy things was to gain speed to market.
The growth in the number of Internet users eventually boosted the e-mail technology, but also created a very competitive environment where the winner was the first company to launch a successful e-mail service and attract potential users. E-mail became one of the most important features of a Web company as it would mean regular visits from e-mail users to the website.
When Hotmail and Mirabilis (the creator of the instant messenger ICQ) were looking to be bought, Yahoo! was the first company to which both made offers. Yahoo!, however, passed on both companies as they were too expensive for Yahoo! at that time. In the end, Microsoft ended up buying Hotmail for $400 million and AOL bought Mirabilis for $288 million.
Yahoo! made a deal with the online communications company Four11 for co-branded white pages. Marvin Gavin, who worked at Four11 as director of international business development said, "We always had a bias about being acquired by Yahoo! They were more entrepreneurial than Microsoft. We had a great cultural fit – it made a lot of sense."
25 megabytes of e-mail storage
10 megabyte message size limit
Ability to send up to 10 attachments per e-mail
POP Access and Forwarding.
Archiving of e-mail messages to a hard drive for offline access
Ability to send messages from Yahoo! Mail using other e-mail domains
200 blocked addresses and 50 filters to help screen unsolicited e-mails
No promotional taglines in messages
No account expiration.
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