Since 1997 yahoomail.com has won the confidence of many webmail users who have grown to almost 300 million. The current version of yahoomail.com was made available in 2007 and since then a more philosophical approach to email has been adopted. The free email service now boasts of powerful features and capabilities that give it an edge over many of its competitors such as Google gmail.com. It now offers the fasted email sending as the current interface which is also very user-friendly allows datapacks to be sent instead of reloading the whole interface each time a click is made.

With their current technology, yahoomail.com allows users a very enjoyable email experience with many features and applications now becoming integrated. It’s interface is rich in every respect and resembles a powerful desktop email client. One of the most attractive offers to all yahoomail.com users is unlimited storage space which grew from only a few megabytes initially. Sign up is very accurate in capturing a few but relevant details and completes in a few minutes to allow new users to sign in and get started immediately. The sign in page uses the SSL technology for security while the users data security and privacy is guaranteed subject to users keeping their password secret.

Using Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger integrations, yahoomail.com allows its users to chat while performing email tasks on the same page. The default AJAX interface of yahoomail.com is the one that offers the most advanced and powerful features that make it more social for the users. A Mail Classic version is also available for those who desire the traditional one page layout which is the original interface that many users were used to before the current default version was introduced. A fee based version known as Yahoo! Mail Plus has also been always available to deliver the best combination of features and capabilities for the most demanding users.

Apart form the unlimited storage space, yahoomail.com offers 25 MB space for email attachments. In order to protect users from receiving unwanted spam emails and phishing attacks, yahoomail.com offers advanced protection. It allows 100 filters that sort all the incoming messages automatically. These filters are 200 for the Yahoo! Mail Plus version. Virus scanning is also automated for all the outgoing and incoming messages and their attachments to guarantee enough protection against attacks targeted to email users.

Users of yahoomail.com are able to customize their email folders in addition to the existing ones allowing them the capability of having emails from users they specify delivered to folders they assign. The user is also able to interact on the emails page easily by right clicking and using drop down buttons and menu. Advanced keyboard shortcuts have also improved the users’ experience to access features they need without using long navigations. Using the integrated Yahoo! calendar users without necessarily having accounts use their free Yahoo! IDs to read feed and events from syndicated sites. Messaging through SMS is also available in certain countries. With yahoomail.com becoming more and more social they have allowed users to add aliases while providing applications such as Flickr to share photos. With also access to applications such as WordPress, Piknic and many others, yahoomail.com is definitely more than just an email service.