Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo Mail is a web-based email service, launched in 1997 through the American parent company Yahoo. Yahoo Mail provides four different email plans: three for personal use (Basic, Plus, and Ad Free) and another for businesses. By December 2011, Yahoo! Mail 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 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, which included improvements to performance, search, and Facebook integration. In May 2011, this became the default interface. Their current Webmail interface was introduced in 2012.On December 14, 2016, Yahoo announced that more than 1 billion user accounts were hacked in a breach that had occurred back in 2013. Earlier that year in September, Yahoo! announced that an additional 500 million user accounts had been 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.FeaturesThe service comes in four configurations: free, plus, ad free, and business.Free Version Email storage capacity: 1 TB. Email attachment limit: 25 MB (up to 100 MB via the built-in 'Attach Large Files' app). Account expiry on inactivity: 12 months. The account cannot be retrieved. Supported protocols: POP3 in Asia or via YPOPs!, IMAP via IMAP proxy or via Zimbra, SMTP, and Mail Forwarding in some countries. US users gained free POP3 and Mail Forwarding access in 2013. 100 filters to automatically sort incoming messages (200 filters for the Plus version). Spam and virus protection. Advertising is displayed on the screen while working with the email account. Text ads are added to the footer of outgoing messages.