Yahoo! Mail is a free web-based e-mail service provider and Yahoo! Mail Classic, an optional secondary User Interface for Yahoo! Mail. In March 2009, Yahoo! Mail Classic integrated Yahoo! Messenger is its interface to allow users to chat and e-mail at the same time, with no additional download or set-up.
It is typically used by people who prefer the traditional full-page-scroll style of interface. It is a convenient to use and reliable e-mail service that can be set as the default e-mail client for Windows. Yahoo! Mail Classic offers most of the features you should look out for in a free e-mail service, like the following:
Unlimited mail storage
Yahoo! Mail Classic offers unlimited mail storage for no extra cost to all its users. So you don’t need to worry about deleting mails from your inbox to free some space for new messages.
SpamGuard
All spam mails and viruses can be effectively scanned by Yahoo! Mail Classic. Junk e-mails automatically move to a separate folder. Disposable e-mail addresses can also be used to block spam.
Privacy
Yahoo! Mail Classic permits its users to disable automatic downloading of remote images for enhanced privacy. Accounts not used for four months automatically get deactivated.
Advertising
Ads are displayed on the screen while working with e-mails. However, text ads do not form part of the e-mails and don’t go to the footer of outgoing messages.
Photo Sharing
PhotoMail is a feature that combines Yahoo! Photos with Yahoo! Mail Classic, making it easy to upload and share photos with your family and friends.
Additional features
Mail filters, quick views, message flags, powerful mail search and automatic vacation replies are some important features that enrich the user’s experience.
While Yahoo! Mail Classic offers reliability, good storage space, spam check and security, it needs to work on digital signatures and message encryption that are currently not supported. Yahoo! Mail Classic’s mail views, though allows you to focus on e-mail messages of your choice in a separate folder, could do with more flexibility. The capability of filtering incoming messages and sorting those automatically can be improved to thread messages as well.
Having said all that, as Yahoo! Mail users perhaps use the web-based interface the most, Yahoo! Mail Classic has made a decent attempt to make it convenient and efficient.
Add to the fact that the Yahoo! Mail Classic is bandwidth-friendly.