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 | 225 million active monthly users (February 2017) |
| 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 four different email plans: three are for personal use (Basic, Plus, and Ad Free) 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.
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.
On December 14, 2016, Yahoo announced more than 1 billion user accounts were hacked in a breach that occurred back in 2013. Earlier that year in September, Yahoo! announced that an additional 500 million user accounts were breached in 2014. The company was said to have discovered about the breach that affected hundreds of millions of accounts years before their initial announcement.
The service comes in four configurations: free, plus, ad free, and business.
In November of the same year, Yahoo! launched another paid service: Yahoo! Mail Plus. There is a $50 set-up fee and a $20 yearly fee. It Yahoo! Mail Plus offered a number of additional features, including:
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.
Another way to access without subscribing for paid mail plans is through Yahoo! Delivers. According to the Yahoo! Mail help pages, "Yahoo! offers POP access to Yahoo! Mail as a free feature exclusively for Yahoo! Delivers members". "Yahoo! offers POP access to Yahoo! Mail as a free feature … for Yahoo! Delivers members". However, this applies only to users of Canadian Yahoo! Yahoo Mail with "@yahoo.ca" extension of their mail. In countries where there is a web browser access restriction, users can use YPOPs! and FreePOPs, which simulates a POP3 server.
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