Yahoo

A comfortable, reliable and secure email service with 1 GB of inbox storage is Yahoo Mail. Yahoo Mails SpamGaurd automatically sends Junk mails into a special folder. Yahoo is teamed with Norton Antivirus which scans all outgoing and incomming messages.

Rich emails can be composed using Yahoo's HTML message editor. Yahoo also provides spell check facility. But plain text option is not available and even POP3 and IMAP access are not available with yahoo's free account.

Yahoo's Mobile service helps user to access his Yahoo Mail account from cell phones or PDA. User can check and compose email. send updates and manage account through Cell Phones or PDA. This feature includes messenger, games, web, ringtones and photos,

Yahoo Photos allows user to upload and share photos easily. Additional features such as calender and notes section can be used. Yahoo's Instant Messenger can be downloaded free. This allows user to get connected to other Yahoo users.

Pros

• Yahoo! Mail scans for spam and viruses effectively
• Yahoo! Go Mail brings rich and always up to date email to mobile phones
• Yahoo! Mail offers 1 GB of storage for free

Cons

• Yahoo! Mail lacks a powerful plain text editor
• Digital signatures and message encryption are not supported by Yahoo! Mail
• Yahoo! Mail does not thread messages, lacks virtual folders and clever searching