yahoo.com

Advantages: Safe for your computer.
Disadvantages: None yet.

Recently, I found that my email provider was getting bombarded with viruses and that the service was not a viable proposition any more, taking into account that as soon as Outlook Express went in to retrieve mail, error messages would appear, or Norton would jump into action. I have more than 2 dozen items in quarantine in Norton and am uncomfortable about it, and decided that it was time I did something to rectify the situation. I have tried email ...
...had trouble getting onto the site. I suppose the inevitable overload of popularity will slow down an email provider, plus the fact that the filters on email on hotmail were a little too strict and I was finding my friends emails hidden away in my junk folder quite frequently. I searched the net for alternatives, and although up until now, I have preferred to use pop servers, I really have my doubts now with all the spam and viruses that are about, ... Read review

Advantages: Great user experience, two options available, good storage size 1GB
Disadvantages: Ads with the free option

I wrote a review last month on Gmail. But before signing up with Gmail, Yahoo mail was the main one I was using. Although I slightly moved some of my contacts to Gmail, I still keep my Yahoo mail in use. In my opinion, they are both very good emails. They represent things in different ways and both have some extra functions. Yahoo mail is a web email service provided by Yahoo that is one of the largest email service providers nowadays. The history ...
...1990s. Since 2005, Yahoo started its beta testing and this is current version: Yahoo Mail beta. This review will be mainly focus on the feature in this version. The beta version is using RIA (Rich Internet Application) techniques, which means it gives users better user experience, however you may find it takes longer than the simple version to upload. With the development of Web 2.0, many online companies have started to test and refine their applications ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, reliable and free
Disadvantages: None to speak of

Without a doubt, Yahoo are one of the biggest names on the net and their free webmail service is amongst the best to be found. With web based email, you can check your mail from any computer and from anywhere in the world, making it ideal for those who are constantly on the move. I actually stumbled across Yahoo mail rather late in my surfing career, as I’d been a fairly happy user of Hotmail. But the one thing that impressed me with Yahoo ...
...of it’s email service, considerably faster than Hotmail and with just as many features to take advantage of. The site is displayed clearly and is simplicity itself to navigate and not too choked with advertisements and images. Pages load quickly and you can opt for pages to be loaded either with frames or without, and you can customize the layout of your pages with colours that suit you if the default ones are not to your liking. You can also ... Read review

Advantages: 6.00MB mail box, use of other Yahoo services
Disadvantages: none

I have been using Yahoo mail for about 4 years, and I think that it is one of the best web based e-mail accounts, and I would definitely recommend it. I also have experience of using Hotmail, but prefer Yahoo mail for a number of reasons. From my experience, Hotmail's service is down more often, and it seems that Yahoo mail is more reliable. (Not that Hotmail is down a lot, just more than Yahoo mail). I was very pleased to discover recently that ...
...my account had a 3.00 MB limit. There is also the option of buying a 25 MB mailbox. I think this is a big improvement to the service, as I always had to keep an eye on my inbox, to make sure I did not go over the limit, and this limit would have been my main complaint about Yahoo mail. The 6.00 MB mailbox is very generous, and most free web based e-mail providers usually have a limit of 3.00 or 4.00 MB. Hotmail only has 2MB of space. When you log ... Read review

Advantages: Generous capacity, fast, quick, easy to use and free!
Disadvantages: None come to mind

...so if you go to yahoo.com you'll get a yahoo.com address, similiarly if you go to yahoo.hk you'll get an @yahoo.hk address. So for a UK one, go to yahoo.co.uk. There is an upper limit of 2MB per email with attachments but this is no great loss. Downloading through POP3 at home is good but the web interface is good for access through colleges and so on. The service is fast indeed - on testing email forms on a website, the email comes to my yahoo ...
...be said for Hotmail. Sending email either from the web interface or the SMTP server is good but you need to have authorised yourself to the POP server first before you can send mail through SMTP. No loss, just do a check for new email and you're through! One other interesting thing is that Yahoo Mail is tied into the Yahoo Messenger program. If you have Yahoo Messenger running and a new email comes into your box, you get alerted by an envelope on ... Read review