Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail 707
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)."
not all accts upgraded yet? (Score:5, Informative)
no registration needed link (Score:5, Informative)
Re:aah, yahoo is /.'d! (Score:4, Informative)
Here's the BugMeNot link for the NY Times... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:annoying I can only delete 25 messages at a tim (Score:5, Informative)
Re:not all accts upgraded yet? (Score:4, 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).
Re:umm (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Looks like it only applies to .com's (Score:4, Informative)
Re:aah, yahoo is /.'d! (Score:2, Informative)
This means Microsoft.com, Applce.com, Google.com and many other sites don't resolve right now. Oops.
Re:I dont get this trend (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How about instead... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:And when it's full... (Score:4, Informative)
Okay google's back here's the url: http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/
Re:100mb? WOW! (Score:4, 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.
Re:2GB Mailboxes (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:hrmmm 2 gig for $20 or 1 gig for free? (Score:3, Informative)
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).
Re:And POP forwarding and access ... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Capitolism (Score:1, Informative)
Capital = Money. Capitalism = he who has the gold makes the rules.
Re:2 GB? 4 GB? (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Re:2GB Mailboxes (Score:3, Informative)
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).
Re:Looks like it only applies to .com's (Score:1, Informative)
Yahoo Subscriber email service is now 2GB (Score:2, Informative)
Binary thinking (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Why I still hate yahoo mail (Score:2, Informative)
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 premium product is searchable (Score:3, Informative)
Re:not all accts upgraded yet? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:not all accts upgraded yet? (Score:3, Informative)
See also this story on the Reg [theregister.co.uk].
Uh, this comment exists TWICE in the same thread (Score:3, Informative)
OT but oh well... (Score:2, Informative)
Check out Nexic's Personal Publisher [nexic.com]. 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).
eWeek quotes Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative)
That Anonymous Coward guy posts a lot of stuff!
Re:Pros and cons of both (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Yahoo Support (Score:5, Informative)