What You Should Know About Yahooemail

Introduction

Yahooemail is a great free service that Yahoo has provided to people all around the world. It enables people to send and receive e-mails in a matter of seconds. It is one of the top ranking e-mail services, alongside Google e-mail and Hotmail. Yahoo has been around and been available since 1995. Here you can not only sign up for Yahooemail, but also join groups and chat with other people through Instant Messenger.

There are a lot of benefits to having a Yahooemail account, but there are also some drawbacks. Below is listed both the benefits and drawbacks to using Yahooemail. This will help you to determine whether or not you should sign up for Yahooemail or should look somewhere else for free e-mail service.

 

Benefits of Yahoo E-Mail

The first and foremost benefit of Yahooemail is that it is free. You will never have to pay a monthly please subscription charge to use the service. This means that you can send and receive e-mails all that you want and never having to worry about your service being discontinued.

Another great benefit to Yahooemail is that you are given and all storage space for your e-mails. You do have the option to upgrade and gain more space, but then you are going to have to pay. If you're looking for a good e-mail service though, the free version has more space than you will likely use.

The Yahoo chat function that is built into your Yahooemail is another great feature. This way you can save time by simply messaging someone who is online instead of having to write a long and drawnout e-mail. The design of this chat function is very sleek and you can also make yourself invisible if you do not want people to see that you are online.

Drawbacks of Yahoo E-Mail

With all of these benefits there are also drawbacks. One of the drawbacks of Yahooemail is that it lacks some of the features that are provided by other e-mail services. This is not to say that Yahooemail doesn't offer good services themselves, they just lack some of what the other free e-mail services offer.

Another drawback to Yahooemail is the amount of spam that you will get. Many users of Yahooemail have complained that they are bombarded with spam and that sometimes the e-mails that are legitimate get placed into the spam folder. Also, that spam e-mails are placed into their inbox and appear to be legitimate.

Yahooemail users have also recently been the victims of hacking. People have complained that their e-mail will send out messages to people on their contact list without their knowledge. These messages are often inappropriate or contain links to viruses. This means that having Yahooemail as the main e-mail for a professional could be a bad idea.

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