Yahoo Mail
Yahoo Mail (own letters Yahoo! Mail ) is a free, advertising-financed e -mail service of the Internet service provider Yahoo. He is one next to the offers from Google and MSN the most widely used free email services worldwide.
User interface
After 2004, the beta of a new surface was underway, the final version has been released in stages from October 2007. She allowed through the use of AJAX, a use that is otherwise only offer locally installed e- mail client (for example, dragging and dropping or registers thanks to the ability to simultaneously read and write several e- mails more ). The focus was similar to Gmail careful not to delete old emails and find the item you are looking at needs through integrated search function quickly. A support for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox is sought. Use with Opera was, apart from a few limitations also possible. Apple's Safari browser, however, were not supported.
It was to be expected as early as 2007 that other Yahoo! services are grouped under this surface. Parts of " Yahoo Calendar " and the " Yahoo Address Book" are already integrated. In December 2012, Yahoo has met these expectations and the last major overhaul of Yahoo Mail made: This time, the developers have placed their focus particularly on the ease of use (usability) and a consistent look across all operating systems. Experts assess the re-launch as an effort to stop the migration of users to GMail.
Services
In May 2007, Yahoo Mail has changed its tenth anniversary, the previous mailbox limit of 1 GB for the benefit of unlimited storage. In the free, ad-supported offer virus and spam protection is included (including through DomainKeys ), but limits the size of file attachments to 25 MB. Access to the mailbox from an e -mail program via the POP3 and SMTP protocols is possible. The end of 2013 the store was to the daughter of Yahoo's flickr increases parallel to a terabyte.
Available domains for users from Germany [email protected] [email protected].
Disposable addresses
In the spam settings, there is the area of " disposable addresses", as many so-called disposable e- mail addresses will be set up in the manifest. Similar to the spam protection service Sneak Email this e -mail addresses can be specified for example in applications in forums or on websites of companies, of which one fears spam. E- mail messages to these disposable addresses land along with the regular mail in the Inbox of Yahoo Mail mailbox.
The disposable addresses follow the pattern [email protected]. The basename must be defined once before you can use the disposable addresses. All disposable addresses have the same base name. The base name is different from the Yahoo! username.
The part can portalxy consist of letters and numbers and can, for example, include the name of the forum or the website for which you want to use the particular disposable address. So you can set up the disposable address [email protected] and use for the Heise Forum [email protected] example, to log on to eBay.
If you eventually get to one of these e- mail addresses spam, you can delete the corresponding disposable address, additional e -mails to this address will be discarded simply because the recipient does not exist. So one must firstly not anywhere where one has used such email address, update the contact e- mail address, as would be the case if you had to change his normal e -mail address due to a flood of spam. On the other hand, you can see so when consistently applied, was by whom or by which body 's own e- mail address may be " sold " or otherwise distributed.
Criticism
In July 2013 Yahoo Mail was criticized after a change in the terms and conditions was known. It allows the company to automatically analyze all messages the user, as is also in Gmail. Yahoo! justified the incision in the privacy of users with the need to provide relevant advertising.