Yahoo's unlimited storage still not enough
(Credit: CNET Networks)Yesterday Yahoo announced they would begin offering Yahoo Mail users unlimited storage. The company will start with U.S. accounts and continue to roll out the upgrade to most of the world by the end of June. The only other major company to offer unlimited Web e-mail storage is AOL, starting in 2005 for paid members.
Despite the big upgrade, something that bugs me is that attachment sizes are still limited to 10MB for free accounts. Both MSN and Yahoo have premium e-mail services that double the mostly standard 10MB attachment size (at a price). This can be really handy for short video clips from digital cameras, or more than three high resolution photographs. Will this bother most users? Probably not, although as file sizes get bigger, storage will only matter if users are able to easily send media files.
Wikipedia has a pretty interesting comparison chart of storage and attachment limits broken down by service.
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Even allowing unlimited storage can have an extreme negative impact to those systems if not done correctly.
That is why most email services still place a limitation on attachment file sizes, and it is a darn good reason.
Even allowing unlimited storage can have an extreme negative impact to those systems if not done correctly.
That is why most email services still place a limitation on attachment file sizes, and it is a darn good reason.
Other attachment problems:
many block .exe and other "dangerous" attachments. Hotmail blocks them and reports it to the receiver as part of the incoming message. GMail blocks them and reports to sender. Yahoo accepts them. AOL and AIM seem to accept (usually) them.
Yahoo and Hotmail turn you off (and you lose all attachments and messages) unless you sign on frequently (at least monthly for Hotmail, I think 90 days for Yahoo - but not sure)
GMail does not sort by size so may be hard to find attachments.
GMail is slow sending attachments, and does not do that in background, so you are stuck waiting.
Other attachment problems:
many block .exe and other "dangerous" attachments. Hotmail blocks them and reports it to the receiver as part of the incoming message. GMail blocks them and reports to sender. Yahoo accepts them. AOL and AIM seem to accept (usually) them.
Yahoo and Hotmail turn you off (and you lose all attachments and messages) unless you sign on frequently (at least monthly for Hotmail, I think 90 days for Yahoo - but not sure)
GMail does not sort by size so may be hard to find attachments.
GMail is slow sending attachments, and does not do that in background, so you are stuck waiting.
doing an article on this great mail tool ?
Thank You
BOB
Mississippi
doing an article on this great mail tool ?
Thank You
BOB
Mississippi