Yahoo mail 100mbs free & Gmail

[Dragon2k4]

Just as Gmail comes onto the scene, yahoo has upped all its account members emaill space from 6mb to 100mb!

Gmail is from google, which offer 1000mb (1gb) of space. Even tho it's free, ppl are selling their accounts on ebay, the cheek! lol

I wonder if MSN/Hotmail will do the same, let the email wars commence!

[Super Stu]

Aye, I noticed my account had been upgraded and the interface changed again. Prefer this one, looks neater than it used to.

I can't fault yahoo mail at all tbh. I use my address absolutely everywhere, but their spam filtering catches 99.9% of the ****e.

[AllYourBase]

yahoo's pop3 access has been shakey over the last few months, i have used it with outlook express for 5 years or so now, top stuff.... gotta get me a gmail account when they go live though!! w00t!

[Wild_Cat]

For some reason, Yahoo's SMTP has become horribly slow over the last few days... Last mail I sent took about 24 hours to arrive.

[Super Stu]

Ah, I stopped using all that back when they started charging for it. Can't say I've noticed inbound delays, if that helps.

Have put my name down for gmail, sounds quite interesting.

[E. Randy Dupre]

Er, aren't Google getting some bad publicity for their new email thing? Last I heard, the system checks through every email message stored on it, looking for keywords, then forwards your address onto companies related to any of those keywords if it finds them. So somebody sends you an email in which they say something like "I need to get a new monitor", then the next thing you know you're flooded with monitor-related spam.

Or did I dream that?

[Super Stu]

Or stick to Yahoo.

I'm easy.

[Wild_Cat]

Randy: no, it's not like that. Actually, given the bandwidth spam uses, Google would lose money if they did that. Besides, it just wouldn't be their style: Google are the masters of elegant, unobtrusive yet efficient advertising (AdWords).

The Gmail ad system works as follows: every time you receive a message, its contents are scanned for keywords. Then, when you view it through their webmail interface, focused advertisements (that is, ads that are related to what's in your mail and thus might be of interest to you) are displayed alongside. The ads themselves are traditional Google-style ads (text-only, no images, no Flash, none of all the annoying things that usually compel you to not ever, under any circumstances, click the link).

Elegant, unobtrusive yet efficient. Though, people are worried about the automated scanning of their mail, which they resent as a violation of their privacy. I see their point, and partly agree with it. If you want your e-mail to be <i>really</i> private, use PGP/GPG.

[Chadruharazzeb]

My BT Internet email account got shunted across to Yahoo. I find their spam filtering to be pretty crap - about 60% of **** still gets through.

Still, I only use it for mugu hunting these days and the 100Mb limit means I can recieve stacks more pictures of the idiots. Which is nice.

[Concept]

1GB FREE email?!?

That's unbeliveable. It really underlines Microsoft's complete piss take in charging for a paltry amount of space with Hotmail. If it continues to do so.

I haven't used hotmail in years.

[Gareth C]

My BT Yahoo email has just been updraded.

I now get 2gb for the primary email adress and 100mb for all secondary accounts...it's insane.

[E. Randy Dupre]

Ah, cheers Wild_Cat. I thought I was probably getting that a bit arse-about. Story here if anybody wants it confirmed.

[Dragon2k4]

Yeah, no biggie tho gmail'll be used mainly sending files over 2mb, 10mb upload maximum compared to msn's paltry 1mb! file storage its what gmail is good for, plus many have yahoo accounts so any personal stuff can be sent on that init

[Super Stu]

Just in case you need to do that now mate, Yahoo permit up to 10meg attachments on the updated system.

[Ginza]

Anybody have an idea when Gmail goes live to register?