I recently received an e-mail from Yahoo stating that they were “updating” their free e-mail storage limit. For new e-mail accounts the new limit is 20 GB of free storage. People like me who’ve had a Yahoo mail account for decades will be grandfathered in; we get to keep our 1 TB of storage. Twenty GB of free storage is still awesome. Gmail gives 15 GB, Protonmail gives 1 GB of free storage.
Maybe Yahoo is trying to cut costs or encourage people to opt for paid storage.
OMG I regularly tell people that it’s 2025 WTF you using yahoo mail for?
Or do you use it like I do my hotmail. Register things and never even read it except to confirm?
No doubt Gmail and Outlook will add caps too.
I regularly dump old emails on a rainy day, pictures too.Just noticed the old folder and govt account from when I did the census in 2016 a while ago and dumped all that. Got rid of 25 years of company emails backed up on my own server too.
I kept all the templates, samples, print jobs and websites though. I have to dig through them for the MS Publisher 10 up business card template to make a few cards for the Men’s Shed.
And I still regret tossing all the Amiga things I made without saving a backups on CDs. Did many flyers, comics, tv commercials and even a book on Amigas and now I can emulate and read them all on my Raspberry Pi.
Yup. Yahoo mail is my registration e-mail address and I’ll archive some things there in a Saved folder. I don’t use Gmail that much either for actual emailing. I like Protonmail.
Gmail is my goto for family and govt interactions.
I do a Hilary Clinton and use my own mailserver for everyday business and online bill receipts.
Hotmail is for registering signups and secondary requirements.
I still encounter someone weekly who used their same hotmail, gmail, etc as their seondary so they can’t fix their mail problems. And every single one blames the service not their own stupidity.
I also use domains I run for emails I want a layer away. Like posting Yelp reviews for shitty restaurants and restarting expired trial software.
Cool. That’s something that you and MiG have mastered(running a mail server). Haven’'t done that yet. On my tech to do list, one day. 
Don’t!
Even though it’s much easier these days, especially with some “mail server in a box” docker containers, it’s still way too much hassle to deal with all the authentication and anti-spam stuff. Much much easier to pay someone else to do it for you.
I use a Google Domain for my personal e-mail, and my family all have e-mail addresses and accounts on there too. It’s the old free Google Apps Domain thing they used to have, but now you have to pay for. But they grandfathered in anybody still using it, or offered a free version of their lowest paid tier.
It’s this one: Legacy G Suite editions - Google Workspace Admin Help
I also use Apple’s custom domain name stuff for my other e-mail domain:
That’s because I already pay for Apple iCloud, and this is a free part of that.
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The man speaks truth Hitest. I really don’t “run” them like I used to. That was a ten year ordeal of security updates, repairs. fixes and upgrades I never wish to experience again.
Farmed it out to GoDaddy more than a decade ago and a few local budget websites from others cover the cost. Never did find another hosting service worth the time & effort that was worth the minimal savings they offered to switch.
But I can add, manage and delete mail accounts on any domain I own.
I once started to set up one on my Pi knowing 10M up was plenty for a single account but halfway thru I remembered the BS I went thru.
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