Yahoo ! Mail (also writt as Yahoo Mail) is an email service offered by the American company Yahoo, Inc. The service is free for personal use, with an optional monthly fee for additional features. Business email was previously available with the Yahoo! Small Business brand, before it transitioned to Verizon Small Business Esstials in early 2022. Launched on October 8, 1997, as of January 2020, Yahoo! Mail has 225 million users.
Users are able to access and manage their mailboxes using webmail interface, accessible using a standard web browser. Some accounts also supported the use of standard mail protocols (POP3 and SMTP). Since 2015, users can also connect non-Yahoo e-mail accounts to the webmail clit.
Yahoo! made a deal with the online communications company Four11 for co-branded white pages. Marvin Gavin, who worked at Four11 as the director of international business developmt, said "We always had a bias about being acquired by Yahoo. They were more trepreurial than Microsoft. We had a great cultural fit – it made a lot of sse." In the d, Yahoo! acquired Four11 for $96 million. The purpose behind acquiring Four11 was the company's RocketMail webmail service, which launched in 1997. Yahoo! announced the acquisition on October 8, 1997,
Yahoo! chose acquisition rather than internal platform developmt, because, as Healy said, "Hotmail was growing at thousands and thousands users per week. We did an analysis. For us to build, it would have tak four to six months, and by th, so many users would have tak an email account. The speed of the market was critical."
Mary Osako, a Yahoo! Spokeswoman, told CNET, "For-pay services on Yahoo!, originally launched in February 1999, have expericed great acceptance from our base of active registered users, and we expect this adoption to continue to grow."
During 2002, the Yahoo! network was gradually redesigned. On July 2, 2002, the company website was changed, and it was announced that Yahoo! Mail and other services would also be redesigned.
Along with this new design, new features were to be implemted, including drop-down mus in DHTML, differt category tabs, and a new user-customizable color scheme. Yahoo! Network Services sior vice presidt Geoff Ralston stated that
The launch of Yahoo! Mail Plus is part of Yahoo's strategic initiative to offer premium services that deliver innovative, reliable and relevant services to consumers ... In just five years, Yahoo! Mail has grown from one million to ts of millions of users, illustrating how consumers have made email an esstial part of their daily lives. Through Yahoo! Mail Plus, Yahoo! continues to demonstrate leadership and innovation by offering consumers the industry's most complete and powerful email solution.[16]
On July 9, 2004, Yahoo! acquired Oddpost, a webmail service which simulated a desktop email clit. Oddpost had features such as drag-and-drop support, right-click mus, RSS feeds, a preview pane, and increased speed using email caching to short response time. Many of the features were incorporated into an updated Yahoo! Mail service.
On April 1, 2004, Google announced its Gmail service with 1 GB of storage, however Gmail's invitation-only accounts kept the other webmail services at the forefront. Most major webmail providers, including Yahoo! Mail, increased their mailbox storage in response. Yahoo! first announced 100 MB of storage for basic accounts and 2 GB of storage for premium users.
However, soon Yahoo! Mail increased its free storage quota to 1 GB, before evtually allowing unlimited storage. Yahoo! Mail had free unlimited storage from March 27, 2007, until October 8, 2013.
It included a new interface, hanced performance, improved Facebook and Twitter integration, the ability to watch YouTube videos straight from email, and improved search.
As the new interface became mandatory for users, some users of Yahoo! Mail reported slow typing speeds, contradicting Yahoo's claims of faster performance. Yahoo! offered no resolution to the problem as of September 12, 2011
. Users also missed the ability to paste textual email addresses into the sder box. The new version disabled the use of the "secondary" addresses provided in the previous version. The new interface overrode the browser's right mouse button (making functions such as oping mails in new tab windows unavailable).
In 2013, Yahoo! redesigned the site and removed several features, such as simultaneously oping multiple emails in tabs, sorting by sder name, and dragging mails to folders.
The new email interface was geared to give an improved user-experice for mobile devices, but was criticized for having an inferior desktop interface.
Many users objected to the unannounced nature of the changes through an online post asking Yahoo! to bring back mail tabs with one hundred thousand voting and nearly t thousand commting.
In December 2013, Yahoo! Mail suffered a major outage where approximately one million users, one perct of the site's total users, could not access their emails for several days. Th Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer publicly apologized to the site's users.
Users were warned that all emails, contacts, and account settings would be inaccessible, unless users migrated to the American version of Yahoo! Mail. Individuals who made China Yahoo! Mail accounts during the Alibaba takeover were required to create new accounts under new usernames.
In January 2014, an undisclosed number of usernames and passwords were released to hackers, following a security breach that Yahoo! believed had occurred through a third-party website. Yahoo! contacted affected users and requested that passwords be changed.
In October 2015, Yahoo! updated the mail service with a "more subtle" redesign, as well as improved mobile features. The same release introduced the Yahoo! Account Key, a smartphone-based replacemt for password logins.
In 2017, Yahoo! again redesigned the web interface with a "more minimal" look, and introduced the option to customize it with differt color themes and layouts.
As many as three web interfaces were available at any giv time. 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,
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Yahoo! Mail is oft used by spammers to provide a "remove me" email address. Oft, these addresses are used to verify the recipit's address, thus oping the door for more spam.
Yahoo! does not tolerate this practice and terminates accounts connected with spam-related activities without warning, causing spammers to lose access to any other Yahoo! services connected with their ID under the Terms of Service. Additionally, Yahoo! stresses that its servers are based in California and any spam-related activity which uses its servers could pottially violate that state's anti-spam laws.
In February 2006, Yahoo! announced its decision (along with AOL) to give some organizations the option to "certify" mail by paying up to one ct for each outgoing message, allowing the mail in question to bypass inbound spam filters.
In order to prevt abuse, in 2002 Yahoo! Mail activated filters which changed certain words (that could trigger unwanted JavaScript evts) and word fragmts into other words. "mocha" was changed to "espresso", "expression" became "statemt", and "eval" (short for "evaluation") became "review". This resulted in many unintded corrections, such as "prevt" (prevalt), "revalidation" (evaluation) and "media review" (medieval).
Wh asked about these changes, Yahoo! explained that the changed words were common terms used in their privacy dashboard and were blacklisted to prevt hackers from sding damaging commands via the program's HTML function. Starting before February 7, 2006, Yahoo! Mail ded the practice, and began to add an underscore as a prefix to certain suspicious words and word fragmts.
Incoming mail to Yahoo! addresses can be subjected to deferred delivery as part of Yahoo's incoming spam controls. This can delay delivery of mail st to Yahoo! addresses without the sder or recipits being aware of it. The deferral is typically of short duration, but may extd up to several hours. Yahoo! does not specifically documt this policy in detail, although some information is available.
In 2004, Yahoo's Hong Kong office provided technical information to the Chinese authorities about the account of journalist Shi Tao, who was subsequtly stced to t years' imprisonmt for "leaking state secrets".
On November 6, 2007, the congressional panel criticized Yahoo! for not giving full details to the House Foreign Affairs Committee the previous year, stating it had be "at best inexcusably negligt" and at worst "deceptive".
Yang stated that Yahoo! no longer controlled its Chinese operations, and was collaborating with human rights groups to formulate ethical code for technology companies.
In a February 2006 hearing, Yahoo! executives swore that they had received no information about the investigation. Several months later, it was discovered that the documt provided to Yahoo! China on April 22, 2004, by the Beijing State Security Bureau stated that "Your office is in possession of the following items relating to a case of suspected illegal provision of state secrets to foreign tities."
On February 20, 2006, it was revealed that Yahoo! Mail was banning the word "Allah" in email usernames, both separately and
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