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Yahoo! Mail
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 Screenshot of the web-based Yahoo Mail client (2017 version) | |
Type of site | Webmail |
|---|---|
| Available in | Multilingual (27)[1] |
| Owner | Verizon Media (Verizon Communications) |
| Created by | Yahoo! |
| URL | mail |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 225 million active monthly users (February 2017)[2] |
| Launched | October 8, 1997[3] |
| Current status | Online |
Content license | Proprietary |
Yahoo! Mail is an email service launched on October 8, 1997, by the American company Yahoo!, now a subsidiary of Verizon. It offers four different email plans: three for personal use (Basic, Plus, and Ad Free) and another for businesses.[4][5] As of January 2020, Yahoo! Mail had 225 million users.[6]
Users are able to access and manage their mailboxes using webmail interface, accessible using a standard web browser. Some accounts also supported the use of standard mail protocols (POP3 and SMTP). Since 2015, users can also connect non-Yahoo e-mail accounts to the webmail client.[7]
For many years, users were able to open accounts using either ''@yahoo.com'' or "@ymail.com",[8] or a national domain (''@yahoo.fr'' in France, ''@yahoo.co.uk'' in the United Kingdom,''@yahoo.it'' in Italy, etc.). Currently, Yahoo! only allows users to register ''@yahoo.com'' accounts.[9]
| Yahoo.com (Yahoo! Mail) IMAP Server | imap.mail.yahoo.com |
| IMAP port | 993 |
| IMAP security | SSL / TLS |
| IMAP username | Your full email address |
| IMAP password | Your Yahoo.com password |
| Yahoo.com (Yahoo! Mail) SMTP Server | smtp.mail.yahoo.com |
| SMTP port | 465 |
| SMTP security | SSL / TLS |
| SMTP username | Your full email address |
| SMTP password | Your Yahoo.com password |
