Yahoo just announced that there is no limit on e-mail storage. Well, I've
read this on their site:

What exactly does unlimited storage mean?

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.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html


So at least they'v learned something about Google mail abusing :-)

Tamas


On 6/4/07, Joshua Shriver <jshriver@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> BTW the reason why they put a limit on how many emails you can
> download is because of gmailfs.  After gmail came out, someone wrote a
> fs wrapper for linux (other systems?) that allowed you to use your
> gmail account as an online backup system.
>
> I even tried it once as a technological curiosity. It basically
> seperated the file into pieces and sent emails with the attach pieces
> and used the header as a quasi-fs for indexing.  Neat concept, but not
> great. In the end all it did was force google to create this limit.
>
> Just my $0.02 :)
> -Josh
>
> On 6/4/07, Joshua Shriver <jshriver@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I forget the exact number, but yes there is a limit for how many
> > emails you can send at one time.  Though to be fair it is pretty high,
> > 50? 100?  Basically to keep people from spamming.  But I was reading
> > an article where people were frustrated because they were trying to
> > send a mass email out to people in their club and couldn't because of
> > the limit.
> >
> > These are relatively small problems so I still like gmail. But can be
> > a bit frustrating.
> > -Josh
> >
> > On 6/4/07, Russell McMahon <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > > Thanks for the warning - I missed the fact that it was crippleware.
> > > What about on the outgoing side? Is there a message count limitation
> > > there?
> > >
> > >
> > >             Russell
> > >
> > >
> > > > Look at the instructions here:
> > > >
> > > > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=1555
> > > >
> > > > Pop access works, but gmail has a really *really* annoying feature.
> > > > You're limited to downloading only 200? 300? emails. So if you have
> > > > a
> > > > lot of mail over the years, there's no way of downloading them
> > > > locally
> > > > for backup.
> > > >
> > > > I still like gmail, but very frustrated I can't download all of my
> > > > email.
> > >
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