A Gigabyte of Free E-Mail Space From Yahoo

I haven't heard anyone getting 1 GB space in yahoo. But if it did, it would be quite a news for the yahoo fans. Unlike Hotmail, at least, all can expect getting equal storage. Microsoft, as always, has a discriminatory nature, not giving 250 MB space to most of the global users. Thank you Yahoo! and Gmail.

Yahoo needs to go back to allowing free POP3 access to these mailboxes. At least Hotmail already does this even though you must use OE to do it.

It has been my experience that since Yahoo expanded the amount of free space alloted to its e-mail users their service has become slower and less reliable.
I would much prefer that they leave keep the no-charge limit at 250 MB but improved their responsiveness overall.

What about the subscribers? Will they get an increase also? If not, I see a lot of subscribers dumping their accounts for the free one.

hotmail might disallow using OE because of spam, I heard

I don't have much in my inbox but if yahoo goes up to a gig that will be awsome

Well I am excited - not much of a GMail fan and its dang invites..

Woo Hoo

I cant believe the press that these silly storage increases get.. Now how about some features !! IMAP service anyone? Come on, universities have been using IMAP for years and none of the big email providers have offered it.. sigh.. Leave it to the smallguys like Runbox, Fastmail or Fusemail to provide this service...

Yahoo right is offering free 1GB Email to chinese users. But the catch is that you must download the yahoo messenger and add a new buddy.

gmail invites are everywhere. in fact, first 50 people to mail me at gnomeboy@gmail.com asking for one can have one.

It has been reported by yahoo that 1GB would into effect from late April to early May.

It has been reported by yahoo that 1GB would come into effect from late April to early May.

I have noticed since the last Yahoo email bump that I have been attacked by more spam than I have in a long time. I opted for the pay service for yahoo to increase my mailbox and spam filters. Does that mean that the pay service will get an additional nump? I wonder.

Long live Google!!!

hey Gmail is open now i think, or at least google invited me...

hey Gmail is open now i think, or at least google invited me...

yeah gmail is still so much better than yahoo mail... You can do so much more with gmail.

And gmail now gives away a lot of invitation. I used up like half of the invitations that I had last month (half of 50), inviting my friends, and now I got 50 invitations again.

That is nice of Yahoo. But have you ever noticed with Yahoo and Hotmail, it takes longer for the ads to load than the page. Not so with Gmail's unobtrusive text ads.

I still like Gmail a bit better than Yahoo. Gmail feels faster, and it offers a good interface. However, there are no spam filters, which sucks.

I wonder what they will do to th business mail, which currently has 2GB. What would I do with that much? I have 214 messages from the past 30 days and I am using 0%. (I keep my emails in my computer.). I also have Gmail, but I don't really use it.

I will switch to Yahoo Mail if and when they allow free POP3 access.

I have both Hotmail and Yahoo, and surely
that Yahoo can handle better the 1 GB,
because Hotmail is like a turtle since they
went up to 250 mb.
If Hotmail raises to 1GB it is going to freeze
like a frozen chiken.

Go to http://isnoop.net/gmail/ if you want a gmail account!

people wanting a gmail account can write to me at yogiman90@gmail.com

I am having 50 invitees to give out and no takers :)

The Good Thing here is we have choice, even though people that use it have different perspective.

Personally, I have noticed NO performance issues with Yahoo Mail since they increased the limit to 250MB. I have also had minimal spam (most of fighting spam is simple, "common" sense").

As for Gmail, there are a lot of people with invites these days, plus, you can go to Google's home page and find an invite there, at times anyway.

Storage really is not an issue for me as I store all my email on my computer. I use both gmail as well as Yahoo! mail. Gmail offers POP3 access without any additional software. POP3 access is available for Yahoo! Mail using a small program called YahooPOPs. It is easy to set up and and transparent to use. You can even get rid of the system tray icon. As far as spam, I use Thunderbird as my email client and it does a fantastic job of filtering spam. If spam does get through, I can just mark it as junk and Thunderbird will add it to it's list of filters.

I agree with the first message posted by Mushfiqur Rahman. I have Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo accounts. When Hotmail said that the storage increased from 2mb to 250 mb, but my storage is still 2mb because I am not registered in USA. It's really unfair.

No matter how hard yahoo tries, gmail will always have the upper hand here. 1 gig and 50 invites? or is it 50gig? (be good now hehe) Hats off to gmail!

I think it's really cool that Yahoo is giving you 1GB of space; beat that Hotmail!!!

Now, if only they would offer you POP access from a 3rd party mail client, this would be perfect; considering gMail is planning on scanning your e-mail and targeting advertising at you. Also, Hotmail is not doing enough to combat the war on SPAM...

What is a gmail invite. New to the e-mail programs and debates. I use excite e-mail. Am I behind the current e-mail craze?

I agree that yahoo should allow free pop 3 services so you can upload/download using Outlook Express, Outlook, Eudora, etc.

use yahoopop
http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index

and stop complaning about free POP3 access to yahoo mail.

I've use Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail, to named a few besides various e-mails I've tried just because I love testing free e-mails :). When it comes to these three giants, I personally think that Hotmail is a b***h! And Gmail is nicer in term of speed, simplicity and storage compared to Yahoo. And, comment from marsha about no POP3 access, I say think Gmail!

GMail has no spam filtering!!?? GMail has the best spam filtering algorithms I've ever experience, 100000 times better than Hotmail.

I never heard that Yahoo! is chainging to 1GB of storage. How do you know?

i use hotmail, yahoo and gmail

gmail is by far the best, in my opinion. yahoo a close second and hotmail a very distant third.

i havnt had one spam message on google or yahoo, i get tones on hotmail.

I want have a hotmail

yahoo is still the best by far

I currently have the paid Yahoo service $20 a year(2 gig).

I get spammed like crazy. Most end up in my bulk folder but it is still annoying because I still have to review it before I delete it.

Some also end up in my regular inbox.

I really wishi yahoo would have e-mail filters like Earthlink e-mail whereby only e-mail from people in your address book go into your inbox.

These 1GB accounts are meaningless without IMAP.

I was wondering if I was the only IMAP fan around ..Way to go..Bring on IMAP !

Cool man.. looking forward to yahoo's 1GB mailbox... i use gmail and all but feel yahoo is much better.. by the ways anyone wanting gmail invite can mail me on devssm@gmail.com

Now we have to see if they will allow larger messages to be sent. As far as I know, Yahoo allows 10MB total message size and Yahoo Plus allows 20MB.

I honestly don't care that much about file size. I am using 50MB right now, but I have 2GB with Yahoo Plus. I enjoy new features more. (e-mail aliases are real nice to help avoid spam)

I also have 50 invites available for gmail. cliffydawg02@gmail.com
I know there's been lots of posts already, but I don't email enough people to even use up my invites! Go Yahoo! I love all the services they offer. Google just needs an IM now.

with storage being equal, Gmail stil has the best interface and unobstructive relevent txt ads to the side.

What I hate about yahoo is that when you sign in, it takes you to a main page. Then you have to click on inbox. Then you click on the new email. Thats like yahoo shoving 3 separate banner ad in your face. Google takes you straight to your inbox.. which is where you want to be in the first place. I stil continue to use my yahoo though. Someday I will completely use google.

the increased storage capacity won't be available until april.

I have Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, and my own email server via my website. I find that Gmail is by far the best choice I've made so far, its so much faster and easier to use than all the others. Google is becoming the most reliable service on the internet...look at every review and their revenue versus everything else..Google has soo much more. Everyone is getting sick of Bill Gates trying to control the PC world.. hotmail is overspam'd and dead if you ask me. Yahoo is decent, but I still recieve SPAM on there, even tho maybe 25 people know that email address. Yahoo's big downfall is the lack of a free POP3 or IMAP service...They lost tons of customers with that. Hotmail is doing the same thing now also, if you've signed up with hotmail recently you must use a pay subscription to use OE, all the old users can still access it for free. My Gmail is SPAM free, lets me put stuff where I want it, Keeps my convesations organized instead of making me read all the attachment .txt I just wish Google would create a kind of IM service...they would run everything then, People are getting tired of AOL's PC take-over crap...AOL tries to integrate itself into every aspect of the PC...sumthing I wouldnt want with an ISP... Google has released a document containing their reply to the Yahoo increase. I can't find it right now, but it stated that Google would then increase its account holders to a unheard of 5Gb per customer. No matter how hard MSN or Yahoo or anyone else tries, they won't beat Google, it has the revenue and the ways to outbeat any other service. GOODBYE YAHOO AND MSN....Your glory days are over..Google is here to rule the world!!

I got mayb around 150 invites too btw, email me at surfernerd6987@gmail.com if you want one.

I AM AN ORIGINAL GMAIL USER SINCE IT WAS FIRST RELEASED....

I have been using Gmail for almost a year now (since they started up) and my account is 91% full but I still get great speed on searching... so I send myself emails with attachments when I need to move files around. :-)

I have tons of invites too, juliaz@gmail.com will get you one.

The spam filtering is also great, I can't believe someone complained about that.

The only thing I hate is not being able to dump my Trash and Spam folders with ONE click.

Hotmail is crap. If it wasn't for Messenger, I would have ditched my account ages ago... and I really wish I could use Trillian everywhere I go but it doesn't work behind a locked-down corporate firewall.

Yahoo! Canada allows free POP3 access. To enable it, you have to sign up for Yahoo! Delivers in your account settings. It's supposed to let them spam your inbox, but I've never received any spam in the over 18 months I've been using POP3 with Yahoo!

Create your email address at the yahoo.ca site, not yahoo.com. Invent a Canadian postal code using letters and numbers in this pattern: A1A 1A1.

Look in Mail Options for the link called POP Access and Forwarding. Web and POP Access should already be selected, so click on Submit.

Set your email client to use pop.mail.yahoo.ca and smtp.mail.yahoo.ca, with your username and password. Some ISPs block outside SMTP servers, so you may have to send your mail using your ISP.

If you want to keep your current Yahoo! address, you could forward your mail from it to the Canadian one. Having not used forwarding with Yahoo!, I don't know if that leaves a copy in the forwarding account's inbox. Of course, if you're going to forward your messages, you could just as well forward them to an inbox at your ISP and use POP3 to access it.

Good news, if yahoo offering this.
If anyone want gmail, send me e.mail i will give you gmail invitation
pakcouple28@gmail.com

I agree completely to Julia about using hotmail only for MSN Messenger. Gmail is far better and faster than any other. However, I have been having trouble attaching large files with Gmail. I have to admit that my connection is slower (only 32 kbps), but Yahoo! and Hotmail allows me to attach larger files. I wish Gmail could get rid of that issue.

GMail is a far better than Yahoo. At least gmail has plenty of user ids available and one does not have to put a number next to the ID (like in Yahoo).

I like gmail for ease of use and fast. Yahoo mail, although has up 1GB! even then its not having fast search capability that Gmail provide. I am thowing away Gmail offer to my friends and each time I spent 50 invitation, I get another 50! Its amazing.

if yahoo mail upgrade to 1GB. Hotmail will do the same thing 1GB no doubt! I wonder how many people still want to pay extra for spaces?

Hotmail is horrible has anyone else noticed that you can't forward an email with attachments and text you receive from some one else you have to copy and paste text and then download and reatach all atachments i emaild them about this and get a response that they new this and gave me the solution of reataching everything. I really like yahoo never had a problem with my yahoo account and love it even more with the 250mb and would really like it if it upgrades to a gig. I've had a gmail for about 4mths and like how it organizes my emails and think the others should do this, and if anyone wants a gmail email me i have 50 invites gillispie@gmail.com

imap stinks.
pop is far superior in every aspect.

If you need POP mail for yahoo use YahooPOPs.

For all those who want IMAP or POP from either Hotmail or Yahoo's free email service, I doubt you'll see it anytime soon. It was a business decision to take those features away so they can get you on their site, and advertise to you! A "premium" account has no ads so they don't need you to be on their site. Unless they come up with a better way of getting you on their site, such as Gmail's cool way of organizing email (by conversation), you won't see those features for free.

I think yahoo is better because it has been upgrading storgage and has a spam blocker I have never gotten spam and have had almost 500 spam messages in my bulk folder. but I am not a heavy e-mail user.

Yahoo IS going to 1GB
http://whatsnew.mail.yahoo.com/

Why bother to wait for yahoo? Just click my link & send; if you don't still have a gmail account.

Haha...here's Google's reply to 1Gb Yahoo...I told u Gmail will top!!

What's new on Gmail?
Just launched!

G is for growth
Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.

Haha...here's Google's reply to 1Gb Yahoo...I told u Gmail will top!!

What's new on Gmail?
Just launched!

G is for growth
Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.

There are view other email services offering a gb of space walla mail is one i came across http://isnoop.net/gmail/ and who really needs a gb of space?

Try out a service like FASTMAIL.FM and RUNBOX.COM rather than this Big Three.

I have a GIG in my yahoo mailbox, I didn't knwo what was going on so I did a search and found this ... I have a GIG of space

My Yahoo was always 250megs and friends told me they have 1gig. Wha?
Not thinking into it much, but last week I use Trillian to enable my Yahoo messenger (not much into IM myself but was forced to live contact some overseas friends), and voila! 1gig mailbox!

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