[dba-Tech] Yahoo mail 1 TB?

Hi Jim

Yes, GMail and Outlook.com defaults to 7 GB which still is a lot (my mailbox is only 4 GB). So 1 TB is close to "unlimited" for general use.
Much to my surprise and with no warning, Microsoft has just doubled the space on corporate Office 365 accounts to 50 GB so now I have 46 GB free. Great.

Outlook on-line has, by the way, evolved to an outstanding product. For example, I just pointed it to forward a copy to my new Yahoo backup account ... it was just to provide the account and password, everything else happened automatically. No fiddling with ports and so on. Things improve.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>
Sendt: 15. marts 2014 18:48
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Yahoo mail 1 TB?

Hi Gustav:

I know nothing about Yahoo but would suspect it will remain indefinitely.

Our ISP has its own client messaging system (Zimbra...IMHO it is an excellent product) which can be configured a number of different ways, can either delete or retain all emails downloaded off to the desktop, can off load all emails to another online storage area like GMail (and possibly Yahoo now). The IPS's Zimbra storage only gives a 1000 MB per account though, so Yahoo may be a good moderately secure backup...like GMail.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, 15 March, 2014 10:29:47 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Yahoo mail 1 TB?

Hi all

I created a Yahoo Mail account for some testing.
It claims to allow you to store 1 TB or about 54 millions e-mails for free? And you have both POP3 and IMAP secure connections.

That's a lot. Any gotchas except that anything may not remain free, but still?
It could serve as a zero cost backup option.

/gustav