Yahoo! Mail - Free Email Service

Space, with Yahoo! Mail, is no issue: you can accumulate as much email as "unlimited" storage will hold.

Of course, you'll want to organize all that mail. Yahoo! Mail offers folders (to which you can drag and drop messages) to hold and decent search (you can use a number of operators to specify senders or dates, for example) to find mail.

Unfortunately, search categories cannot be saved as smart folders — Yahoo! Mail does come with filters that automatically file incoming mail, though — and you cannot freely apply multiple labels to messages. You have to put emails into multiple folders for that kind of organization.

Speaking of filters and folders, Yahoo! Mail comes with solid but, alas, not stellar spam control. It could do better in that area. Of course, Yahoo! Mail scans for viruses and will protect you from web-bugs in unknown senders' messages.

While Yahoo! Mail Plus comes with a few goodies such as POP access and larger messages, IMAP access is missing from all but iPhone Mail. Instead of reaching out to email programs, Yahoo! Mail integrates instant messaging (Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger) and SMS messages.

In day-to-day use, it is the details that make you love or loathe an email service, of course. Yahoo! Mail not only brings a sleek interface and tabs and drag-and-drop oomph but also keyboard shortcuts around every (round) corner and well-thought-out solutions to many a practical program (such as addressing messages).

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