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Yahoo Mail (free) — 20 GB, down from 1 TB
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- Free allowance
- Yahoo's own help, read live: "Yahoo Mail incluye actualmente 20 GB de almacenamiento gratuito con cada cuenta" = 20 GB free per account.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-capper-object-cap **41,697,280 bytes (39.77 MiB
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Yahoo's own help, read live: "Yahoo Mail incluye actualmente 20 GB de almacenamiento gratuito con cada cuenta" = 20 GB free per account. Plans: 100 GB, 1 TB; Mail Plus is 200 GB. The old 1 TB free tier is gone. unit GB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) per-object-cap **41,697,280 bytes (39.77 MiB source
per-object-cap 41,697,280 bytes (39.77 MiB) advertised as APPENDLIMIT — the cleanest, most honest per-message cap of any provider here because it is protocol-advertised rather than buried in docs. SMTP agrees: 250-SIZE 41697280. |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | Unmetered; mailbox service. |
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| Per-object cap | per-object-cap **41,697,280 bytes (39.77 MiB (41701867 bytes) |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest rest |
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| Tooling | IMAP probe-verified: imap.mail.yahoo.com:993 -> * OK Welcome! IMAP Server up and ready / * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ... APPENDLIMIT=41697280. That APPENDLIMIT is a live, machine-readable per-message byte cap. |
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| Reliability | Quota was cut 1 TB -> 20 GB (Aug 2025) and again to 15 GB for UK/EU from 2026-05 — a provider actively shrinking, which makes it a poor archive target structurally. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 39.77 MiB
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | es-us.ayuda.yahoo.com/kb/new-yahoo-mail/SLN37064.html | "20 GB de almacenamiento gratuito", 100 GB / 1 TB / Mail Plus 200 GB tiers |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: imap.mail.yahoo.com:993 CAPABILITY -> APPENDLIMIT=41697280 |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: smtp.mail.yahoo.com:587 EHLO -> 250-SIZE 41697280 |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "dead-service","why": "Yahoo's own help, read live: \"Yahoo Mail incluye actualmente 20 GB de almacenamiento gratuito con cada cuenta\" = 20 GB free per account. Plans: 100 GB, 1 TB; Mail Plus is 200 GB. The old 1 TB free tier is gone.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read