On Monday I started the series of Web Based Email Reviews. Over the series I am reviewing who I consider to be the most popular Web Based Email providers, Microsoft Live Mail/Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Google Mail. Today I am going to review Yahoo! Mail.

You can upgrade Yahoo Mail from the basic free version to ‘Yahoo! Mail Plus‘, ‘Yahoo! Business Mail‘ and you can also purchase a package called ‘Yahoo! Mail Personal Address‘.

The Basic Free Yahoo! Mail has many features for example:

  • Yahoo! Mail will automatically check for new messages.
  • You can drag and drop items into folders which makes organisation easier than ever!
  • Access your email on your mobile phone
  • Also, recently Yahoo! have developed and integrated a way to send/receive Instant Messages, to friends that are online, straight from your Yahoo! Mail account.
  • 10MB Message Size
  • 15 Spam Filters
  • SpamGuard (Spam Protection)
  • There is also a features page which you can visit to see more!

Yahoo! Mail Plus has the features above, plus the following:

  • 20MB Message Size instead of 10MB.
  • 50 Filters instead of 15.
  • SpamGuard Plus(Spam Protection) instead of just Spam Guard
  • No account expiration
  • However…this all does come at a price! On the website it is down as $19.99 a year which is just under $2.00 per month. This works out at the current exchange rate to be around £10.00 a year which is under £1.00 per month!
  • For more info click here

Yahoo! Mail Personal Address basically lets you majorly personalize your email account,

  • It includes 5 email addresses
  • You can personalize your email address in the format ‘name@your-name.com’.
  • The service also has an advanced anti-virus protection.
  • To find out more click here.
  • All this is for $35 a year which is less than $3 a month! At today’s current exchange rate that works out at around £17.50 a year and less than £1.50 a month!

Finally Yahoo! Business Email has pretty much all of the previously names features and more:

  • Award-winning spam and security protection
  • Easy-to-use and powerful main interface
  • 24/7 Free Customer Support
  • For info click here.
  • At today’s current exchange rate this will cost you for the basic package just under £5 a month. However you will need to pay a set up fee of around £12.50.

From looking at all the Yahoo! Mail products I have discovered that they provide a package that can suit most people’s needs, however the downside of it all is that some of it comes at a price. It’s just down to the user to decide if they really need all the extras or not, as the basic package is adequate for most people.