By Thilak March 28, 2007

Yahoo Mail announces Unlimited Storage

Yahoo Mail will be 10 year old this May. To celebrate this anniversary, Yahoo has announced unlimited storage for all Yahoo Mail users starting from May 2007. With this announcement, Yahoo Mail will overtake Gmail (2.8GB) and Live Mail (2GB) both in terms of storage space and users. Yahoo Mail currently has over 250 million registered users worldwide, far more than any other competing service.

Yahoo Mail was born out of the acquisition of RocketMail by Yahoo in 1997. It initially offered 4MB of storage, good enough to hold few word docs or photographs. By 2005, the storage was escalated to 100MB and currently it offers 1GB of storage space.

Unlimited storage space is available for all Yahoo Mail users, not just Yahoo Mail Beta users. TechCrunch writes that users will have to stick with Yahoo’s abusive policies and follow “normal email practices”, not to use Yahoo Mail for storage purpose. Users who violate these terms will be notified or suspended by Yahoo. However, the user can still have access to his data.

This would prove to be a real incentive for users to make a switch back to Yahoo Mail, but Yahoo still lacks POP and forwarding feature, which remains as a paid feature. I’ll continue to stick with Gmail, mainly because of the POP which allows me to sync mails to my email client (Thunderbird). Maybe, I’ll use Yahoo Mail to store automatic database backups which are quite bulky.

Have you ever wondered how these providers offer such incredible storage space? Nearly 99.9% of the users don’t need such storage space at all. If all users start utilizing their maximum storage space, I bet the providers would run out of luck!

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Discussion

Comments for “Yahoo Mail announces Unlimited Storage”

  • Great news but I still prefer Gmail over Yahoo Mail.
  • Nothing is infinite! Yahoo knows that, but as your last paragraph points out, who is going to use that much space? I've had Gmail since it's very early days of very restricted invites and I've only filled 10% of it, and I consider myself someone who gets a lot of email (mostly rubbish, admittedly).

    To say infinite storage is available is no more use to your average user than Gmail or even Yahoo's current storage limit, it's just an exciting word to use that will gather attention. That seems to have worked, judging by the number of articles I've seen on this today, but it's not changed my opinion that Gmail is all I need. Let's see what happens as this pans out, my guess is not much difference.
  • Our rediff is always a step ahead in providing email storage. It was the first one to provide 1GB and then unlimited space. But this is useless anyway as I cannot upload more than 10MB at a time. I wonder how long will it take my inbox to reach infinity!!
  • Like Cucirca said I also prefer Gmail over Yahoo Mail

    and Phil has got a point there too 'nothing is unlimited on the web' its just a hoax and marketing strategy
  • hmm storage is becoming cheap... also no one's gonna use that much space...
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