Yahoo! Mail
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Screenshot of Yahoo! Mail inbox
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Type of site
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Webmail |
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| Available in | Multilingual (27) |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Created by | Yahoo |
| Website | mail |
| Alexa rank |
 111,651 (December 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 1 billion active monthly users (February 2016) |
| Launched | October 8, 1997 |
| Current status | Online |
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Content license
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Proprietary |
Yahoo! Mail, a web-based email service, launched in 1997 through the American parent company Yahoo!. Yahoo! Mail provides two different email plans: one is free for personal use and another is paid-for business use. By December 2011, it had 281 million users, making it the third largest web-based email service in the world. On December 14, 2016, Yahoo announced that more than 1 billion user accounts were hacked in a breach that occurred back in 2013. This announcement came after the initial September report in which Yahoo announced that 500 million user accounts were breached in 2014. The company was said to have known about the breach affecting hundreds of millions of accounts years before their initial announcement.
As many as three web interfaces were available at any given date. The traditional "Yahoo Mail Classic" preserved the availability of their original 1997 interface until July 2013 in North America. A 2005 version included a new Ajax interface, drag-and-drop, improved search, keyboard shortcuts, address auto-completion and tabs. However, other features were removed, such as column widths and one click delete-move-to-next. In October 2010, Yahoo released a beta version of Yahoo Mail, which included improvements to performance, search and Facebook integration. In May 2011, it became the default interface. Their current Webmail interface was introduced in 2012. Yahoo Mail had unlimited storage from March 27, 2007 until October 8, 2013.
The service comes in two configurations, free and business.
In countries where there is a web browser access restriction, users can use software that simulates a POP3 server to which the email application connects, such as YPOPs! and FreePOPs.
Another way of getting POP3 access without signing up for the paid mail plans is via Yahoo! Delivers, which sends the user promotional email messages. According to the Yahoo! Mail help pages, "Yahoo! offers POP access to Yahoo! Mail as a free feature exclusively for Yahoo! Delivers members". However, this applies only to users of Canadian Yahoo Mail with "@yahoo.ca" extension of their mail.
As of October 2013, Yahoo provides paid subscribers POP3 access and forwarding.
Yahoo! Business Email is a combination of all their email services. The service includes 10 distinct accounts, each with the same features of the plus version, as well as a personalized domain name and email address. Accounts can be managed by an administrator. There is a $25 set-up fee and $9.99 monthly fee.
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