One month after announcing their “to infinity and beyond” unlimited email storage, Yahoo has finally started rolling it out to their users. The entire process of enabling all users with the unlimited storage will take a few months, and they do this to make sure that it’s a smooth process.
We already mentioned the fact that there really is no such thing as “unlimited” storage because there’s no such thing as unlimited hard drive space. It’s not possible for hard drive space to be infinite because the storage would have to grow at a faster rate than what people are storing their mail at.
So at what point will they cut someone off? You know there will be at least one person who will want to test the “unlimitedness” of it, and when they do, will Yahoo stop them at some point?
You’ll know if you’ve been upgraded to the unlimited storage when your counter has been removed. In case you’ve never paid attention to where your counter is at, the image below points to it.
I don’t think I’ve seen anybody overly-excited about the idea of unlimited storage. When the announcement was first made, here are some of the ideas from our comments section of what readers thought would be better features to have:
- Increased attachment size
- POP3 enabled
What’s also interesting is that they haven’t updated their Yahoo! Mail Upgrades page – the paid accounts. You’d think that they would upgrade their paying customers first that have Yahoo! Mail Plus, but that page still says “virtually unlimited storage – 2GB.” So now the Yahoo! Mail plus customers are paying for their 2GB when the free accounts have unlimited.
If you use Yahoo! Mail, keep your eye out for the removal of your storage counter. Once it’s gone, you can begin hoarding all of your email messages for life!
Source: Yodel Anecdotal
My storage counter thing disappeared a while ago – don’t remember exactly. but I know I haven’t seen it on my mail for a while.
Hmmm, I guess that means you have unlimited storage. That’s just odd that you’ve had it for awhile now.
I have a counter, says I am using 0% of 1 GB. I am about ready to dump my Yahoo account as all I am getting is tons and tons of spam. I only really use it to forward stuff I need to print. I can access this account on the computer down at the community office. Funny thing I could not get access my Windows Live Mail via their computer using Internet Exploiter.
I hear ya Fx Extension Guru! If you notice in the screenshot, it says that I have 2,912 unread messages in my inbox. About 99% of them are spam! Once my account started to get overwhelmed with spam, I just quit using it for my everyday purposes a few years ago.
That’s the same problem I have and yet stuff is getting into the bulk folder like it should but yet I have tons that are not. I still cain’t understand why I could not get Windows Live Mail to come up on the community office’s computer. One these days I’ll get another printer. I’ll just make sure it is not another Lexmark. The last one I had the software caused Windows to crash everytime it was installed. Thank goodnes for restore points.
Those restore points are definitely helpful, and I have used the “driver restore” feature more than once as well. If you ever install a driver that doesn’t work…just roll back to the old one!
Well, that wouldn’t have helped since it was the OEM driver which came with the printer that did not play well with Windows. This was a nearly fatal error in that Windows would not even start until I went to the last restore point which was removing the driver.