Yahoo Mail

Yahoo! Mail
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Screenshot of the web-based Yahoo Mail client (2017 version)
Type of site
Webmail
Available inMultilingual (27)[1]
URLmail.yahoo.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired
Users225 million active monthly users (February 2017)[2]
LaunchedOctober 8, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-10-08)[3]
Current statusOnline
Content license
Proprietary

Yahoo! Mail (also written as Yahoo Mail) is an email service offered by the American company Yahoo, Inc. The service is free for personal use, with an optional monthly fee for additional features. Business email was previously available with the Yahoo! Small Business brand, before it transitioned to Verizon Small Business Essentials in early 2022. Launched on October 8, 1997, as of January 2020, Yahoo! Mail has 225 million users.[4]

Users are able to access and manage their mailboxes using webmail interface, accessible using a standard web browser. Some accounts also supported the use of standard mail protocols (POP3 and SMTP). Since 2015, users can also connect non-Yahoo e-mail accounts to the webmail client.[5]

New Yahoo! Mail accounts, and most of the service's accounts, use yahoo.com as the email suffix. Previously, users could choose ymail.com or rocketmail.com as a suffix,[6] or one of several country-specific suffixes. Many countries were available, such as yahoo.co.uk in the United Kingdom, yahoo.fr in France (also used by francophones) and yahoo.it in Italy. While these suffixes are discontinued for new accounts, they are preserved for existing accounts.[7] Yahoo! Japan Mail, a separate service, offers both yahoo.co.jp and ymail.ne.jp as suffixes.[8] Internet service providers using Yahoo! Mail offer their own suffixes for subscribers, with AT&T also offering free accounts to non-subscribers.[9]

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  6. ^ "Yahoo offers new ymail, rocketmail accounts". CBC News. June 19, 2008. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  7. ^ "Identify your domain extension in Yahoo Mail | Yahoo Help - SLN2153". Yahoo Help.
  8. ^ "新ドメインのメールアドレス「＠ymail.ne.jp」提供開始！". Yahoo!メール (in Japanese). March 1, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  9. ^ "AT&T Mail | Currently | Yahoo". AT&T. Retrieved March 27, 2022.