Yahoo Gives 100MB to Mail Users!

[Phantasm66]

This Tuesday Yahoo will begin to offer 100MB of additional storage for users for its free mail, as part of a strategy to redesign the service.

"Along with the 100MB boost, Yahoo will upgrade Mail Plus paid users to 2GB of storage and lower its yearly subscription from $29.99 a year to $19.99. Other a la carte services, such as POP e-mail forwarding, will consolidate under this plan and no longer be sold on a standalone basis."

Aside from this additional space, there are also plans to make the e-mail service a lot sleeker, faster and cleaner.

More here.

 

[Per Hansson]

Yea, great!

Now I don't have to get myself a Gmail account but can keep my _very_ old Yahoo address!

And those 100mb will prolly be enough to keep all my SPAM when I'm out racing this summer! haha

 

[Per Hansson]

Just got this:

https://www.techspot.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/397

They are in a transition stage now... Some pages have been updated others have not...

But it was nice to see my used space drop down from 82% to 5% ;-)

 

[Didou]

I only have the updated interface so far, still stuck at 6mb of Email storage.

 

[Per Hansson]

Yes, it is jumping bac and forth a bit...

Sometimes I have 6mb sometimes 100...

Guess they have some content caching servers or something...

 

[olefarte]

Yahoo mail is very slow today, must be getting flooded with people signing up.

 

[BrownPaper]

I have been waiting a few months for this to happen. Neat.

 

[abc]

Very slow indeed. I also think it is neat (and about time) that they increased the attachment size to 10MB. Email is by far the easiest way to send a sigle mp3 to someone.

 

[Didou]

Mailbox now at 100mb but since they switched to the new layout, my inbox list looks messed up.

 

[Didou]

One thing that didn't seem to get mentionned is that the POP3 yahoo service seems to be free again. I enlisted for it (free of charge) & can now check my yahoo Email from Thunderbird.

 

[DigitAlex]

Thats nice, I'm gonna sign un for yahoo then, I really need a pop access to my email, webmail starts being very s*cky

 

[DigitAlex]

I already created another yahoo account once and i cant remember the password and info i have put

plus I registered a new one but i don't see where they speak about the POP feature. Could you please help, Didou ?

 

[Didou]

MAIL Options -> POP Access & Transfers

From there you are offered the "Yahoo! Direct" service which is free of charge & gives you access to the POP3/SMTP service.

 

[DigitAlex]

I don't have such a thing !

look :

 

[Didou]

Well after looking for the problem with DA, it turns out the POP3 service is available for Email on yahoo.fr. When you try to enable the POP3 service on a yahoo.com Email, it's still considered a premium service.

Very odd situation. Maybe the interfaces/services of the different yahoo servers aren't synced yet.