Originally Posted by
Bestbob
Been using Yahoo for about 7 years now... for the past three that includes a professional consulting domain version as well as the "personal" address. I'm still using the "classic" version from inertia as much as anything else.
Spam filter works quite well... seldom grabs a real email (althought it always pays to check) and almost never allows a spam offer through to the regular mail. Search feature is a charm... and I like traditional folders to store things in.
I like the way Yahoo mail organizes its webmail. But the big reason I migrated to Gmail from the domain + hosting pro version of Yahoo is that Yahoo's spam filter was snagging too much ham and not as much spam as Yahoo's. Incredibly, Yahoo's spam filter actually believes the date of forward-dated spam mail. This meant I would have to wade through pages and pages of email dated from the year 2038 before I could get to the correctly-dated portion of the mailbox to find the ham that was snagged by the filter!
For $10 + $25 per year, IMO the Yahoo Pro product is inferior to free Gmail.