14 DAY TRIAL // Some time ago, the Sunnyvale company Yahoo announced that its mail solution will provide unlimited storage size for all the users starting May 2007. At this time, we have even more than infinite capacity: Yahoo Messenger was also introduced into the mail interface allowing the users to communicate straight from Yahoo Mail. Getting back to the storage size, it is quite useless if you're not that kind of person who sends millions of messages every day and wants to save them all. Let me explain this to you. Some of you might think that an unlimited storage capacity allows you to send numerous files attached to the email, so you can easily transfer files between you and somebody else.
Well, you can't. Because the Sunnyvale company allows only up to 10 MB email messages, so your attached file must have a maximum of 7-8 MB (if we consider the amount of space required by the encodings). "With a Free Yahoo! Mail account, you can send and receive messages up to 10MB in size. This means that the total encoded size of the email message you are sending cannot exceed 10.0MB. Attachments sent with emails have to be encoded into a format other email programs can read," the Yahoo guidelines mention.
Gmail was the first email solution that offered a huge storage capacity but, because Yahoo Mail was looking for something new to bring the product in the spotlights, the Sunnyvale company decided to attach unlimited storage size. But how can you use this huge capacity if you're only allowed to send up to 10 MB messages?
"The purpose of unlimited storage isn't to provide an online storage warehouse. Usage that suggests this approach gets flagged by Yahoo! Mail's anti-abuse controls," it is mentioned. "Unlimited storage gives normal email account users like yourself an opportunity to not have to worry about hitting a storage limit. Basically, the idea is that now you can save your correspondence and memories and never worry about deleting older messages to make room for more."