You would get to Yahoo! Mail Beta
interface but the correct Yahoo! content. The caveat would be you would have
to keep the localized Yahoo! Mail email domain (i.e. @yahoo.co.uk). Another
way to get a Yahoo! Mail Beta account in the US would be to sign as a Yahoo!
US user and under Mail Options > Account Information change the "Preferred
Content" to Yahoo! UK. After the settings are changed, you would have to
agree to an EULA (End-User License Agreement) that invites you to the Yahoo!
Mail Beta. After this was done, you could change back your "Preferred
Content" to Yahoo! US and end up with the Yahoo! Mail Beta while still
keeping an "@yahoo.com" address.
Yahoo! Mail has the following
features:
Free version: 1 GB quota. 10 MB
attachments, plus protection against spam and viruses. (See: DomainKeys)
Advertising is displayed on the screen while working with the e-mail
account. Users can also read mail from a POP3 server through Yahoo! Mail.
However, if they want to send mail from a distant SMTP server, they must
upgrade to a Plus account. Accounts not logged into for four months get
deactivated (The account can be retrieved but all personal data is lost).
Every free Yahoo! account will be deleted after an inactivity of 4 months.
Early in 2006, Yahoo! Mail introduced aliases to its repertoire of features.
Users could now add a (single) alias username containing a dot character for
a pre-existing account.
Plus version: 2 GB quota. The Plus service
offers POP3 access—meaning that the e-mail account can be accessed through
e-mail clients (Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook, Eudora, etc.) that work with
the POP3 protocol. When working with the account over a web browser, no ads
are displayed. This type of account has additional spam and virus
protection. Yahoo! is charging $19.99 per year per user for Yahoo! Mail
Plus. Users of Yahoo! affiliated Internet service providers, such as SBC,
BT, and Rogers have all the features of the Plus version included as part of
their accounts.
Business: 2GB, 10 E-mail quota. Yahoo!
Business E-mail is a combination of all their e-mail services with 10
distinct accounts each with the same features of the plus version and
personalized domain name and e-mail address. Accounts can be managed by a
administrator. There is $25 set-up fee and $9.99 montly fee to use this
service. Additionally, a user can pay $35 per year to have up to five custom
e-mail addresses and a domain name.
YahooMail
is a free email service and competes with AIM Mail, Gmail and Hotmail
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