And Yahoo kicks it up a notch...

[hbdragon88]

Just logged in today, saw this message:

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.

So thanks again for choosing Yahoo! Mail Plus to keep in touch, and we hope you enjoy the additional services now at your fingertips. For more information, please visit our Help page.

2GB of space! It looks like Yahoo is winning against Gmail's 1GB space...and no text ads, either. (And 100MB for free users).

 

[Dell19]

Is there a limit on the size of attachments you can send?

 

[Gogf]

Well, I opened up my old Yahoo (free) account, and got this:

Great news – Yahoo! Mail is new and improved!

Thanks for being a loyal Yahoo! Mail user. To ensure that Yahoo! Mail continues to be the easiest, most enjoyable way for you to stay in touch, we've made several great improvements to your service! In addition to all the features you currently enjoy, we've made these upgrades:

* Streamlined interface
Makes using your mail even easier
* 100MB of email storage
Keep more of the things that are important to you – without worrying about bumping up against your storage limit.
* Message size up to 10MB
Send monster-sized files – photos, presentations, whatever!

So thanks again for choosing Yahoo! Mail to keep in touch, and we hope you enjoy the additional services now at your fingertips. For more information, please visit our Help page.

So, for free mail, GMail is still better.

 

[zurichuk]

10 Mb is the limit

it's actually very annoying, my free yahoo is now 100Mb and the ones I get with my own paid-for website are still 25Mb each

 

[Souron]

But Yahoo gives you yahoo briefcase and Geosities to store files in. Quite usefull.

 

[anarchywrksbest]

This is great, I'm glad I chose Yahoo to replace my old Freeserve smtp/pop service.

 

[hbdragon88]

God...I can't stand the layout. They think it's all "cool" to have a really weird layout with more options, but I want the old layout back! In my three years as Yahoo Mail member (1-month for Yahoo Plus), the layout has changed three times. The first was an awful frames version - the second much better, non-frames - and this new one is a really weird and blue layout!

 

[FireBall]

Yep 10 MB of space...

I got that e-mail too, though I almost never use my yahoo account, I may now!

 

[Souron]

God...I can't stand the layout. They think it's all "cool" to have a really weird layout with more options, but I want the old layout back! In my three years as Yahoo Mail member (1-month for Yahoo Plus), the layout has changed three times. The first was an awful frames version - the second much better, non-frames - and this new one is a really weird and blue layout!

Yea, and it dosn't have the site Map at the bottom as it did before.

 

[Plexus]

Crap... now I can't get my Yahoo messages via POP3.

Edit: Scratch that... just had to work around that message via the web interface and restart YPOPs!.

 

[MarineCorps]

I'm still going for G-mail. G mail is going to free. I can not pay for mail as my father holds his credit card hostage.

 

[hbdragon88]

I'm still going for G-mail. G mail is going to free. I can not pay for mail as my father holds his credit card hostage.

Still 100MB for free users, though.

Also, my family is loving it - my mom no longer has inbox filling worries, my dad's free Yahoo -box is bigger than his paying 10MB MSN box, and my older sister has it and was her box was also filling up too.

 

[DoubleSidedTape]

I have gMail ans 2 xtra invites
i could offer one fore certain *ahem* favors>

 

[Plexus]

Ehm. I know this guy. His name's Plexus.

 

[Turner]

I rarely went close to the 4mb limit, except during football season and when my mom decided to email me picture stuff, which happens quite a bit now that I think about it...

In any event, 100mb is nice. I might pony up the $20 for the 2 gig account, or whatever it is.

 

[hbdragon88]

In any event, 100mb is nice. I might pony up the $20 for the 2 gig account, or whatever it is.

Normal price is $30 a year, but they've dropped it to $20 for now.

 

[MarineCorps]

Still 100MB for free users, though.

Also, my family is loving it - my mom no longer has inbox filling worries, my dad's free Yahoo -box is bigger than his paying 10MB MSN box, and my older sister has it and was her box was also filling up too.

Yeah but hotmail is such a cooler name

 

[Dell19]

When are hotmail bringing out their GB version?

 

[MarineCorps]

Knowing M$. Never. 3MB of space for free. Never gone beyind 25% ever. I got an email from hotmail staff talking about MSN dial up offers

 

[ybbor]

that storgage limit increase really helps. before i was at around 74% of my maximum, which ment if anyone sent me a big e-mail that put me above 75% i got a big annoying thing at the top of the page. I cleaned it out and got it to 47%. now with the new storage limitm at 2%