Wow @ Yahoo mail...

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:36 pm

They just rolled out thier new service.

Not only does their already excellent Spam Guard work perfectly (I havent seen spam in 2 years) but they expanded their inbox from 4 to 100 megabytes!

Kudos to Yahoo for a truely excellent e-mail service.

Meanwhile Microsoft Hotmail is still stuck in the dark ages with its 2 mb of storage. Come on, this is Microsoft were talking about here! Make like Yahoo and get with the times!

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:06 pm

been nothing but buggy for me all day...

in the last 20 minutes or so things seem to be ironing out.. Most of the buttons were going to dead links (404)

I actually deleted the email from them with reading it. have they changed the limit on attachment sized from 1.5 megs?

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:07 pm

I'll wait on GMail...

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:15 pm

says 10mb attachments, didn't mention individual attachment size though. i assume 10mb is the combined max.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:19 pm

Can you fetch your mail using POP3?

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:23 pm

You can send all types of files as attachments, including word processor or spreadsheet documents, audio files, image files (.bmp, .jpg., .gif, etc.), web pages saved as HTML files, and more. Currently, you can send up to three attachments totaling 3MB in any email message.

for 10 meg, you have to sign up for the Pay versions.

JT, Gmail rocks

That's all I can say. Ahem.. (stresstest at Gmail.com)

And 1 gig is way better then 100 megs. And you know the reason for the update today was because of gmail

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:34 pm

Hotmail is getting owned.

I have two yahoo acconts, one had 6 MB, the other had 4, now they both have 100. =)

MehYam · Post by **MehYam** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:04 pm

Tricord wrote:Can you fetch your mail using POP3?

Yes, although you may have to sign up for premium ($20/yr) service - which now gets you a 2GB mailbox and probably a bj every now and then.

This is a response, in large part, to GMail's features. Shows you what a competitive environment does for software development. Yahoo's mail has shown some sudden improvements over the last little while... I'd be willing to bet that Yahoo starts making their mail zippier and more reliable, to boot (it still doesn't answer a click from time to time, or takes too long to).

I'll get a gmail account just to have it, but I'll probably stick with Yahoo because it's what I use, and because I don't want to encourage another Microsoft.

Cuda68-2 · Post by **Cuda68-2** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:23 pm

they are just catching up to spymac.com - which has pop3 also

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:02 pm

Krom wrote:Hotmail is getting owned.

I have two yahoo acconts, one had 6 MB, the other had 4, now they both have 100. =)

Hotmail is kinda an afterthought. I think MS wouldlike to see it just kinda die and everyone go to thier other service .. whatever it is....

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:15 pm

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:26 am

blah i hardley e-mail aney ways

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:05 am

Well, I have an MSN email addy for use in registrations that require an email (hate those). I never really hit the limit because mail is copied in a local folder in my mail client. Same for my univ mails...

Btw, do you guys also keep everything you receive (except spam, of course)? I think my outlook mail folder weighs in at 1.2GB or so.. Lol, I'm already over the GMail limit

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:15 pm

Yea, I have stuff in my outlook from 1999.

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:58 am

JMEaT wrote:I'll wait on GMail...

x2
I HAVE TO GET SAGE@GMAIL BEFORE ANYONE ELSE!!!!!

Viralphrame · Post by **Viralphrame** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:15 am

Oh yeah. When GMail goes live, no more hotmail for me.