Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail – Attachment Size Limit

Email permit sending files and documents in the form of attachment. Some even use such facility as a free online storage. Emails however have a cap in how big an attachment be.

Here are the limits of attachment sizes in big players in email sector: Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail :

Hotmail : 10GB (since August 3, 2010, in SkyDrive) – Unlimited storage
Yahoo : 25 MB attachment limit – Unlimited storage(since May 2007)
Gmail : 25MB (since June 2009) – 7GB storage

There are other email service providers but, none is near the three market leaders.

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The most popular online email provider in Nepali community – Yahoo

The crown of the most popular email provider in the Nepali community goes to Yahoo.com.

After the analysis of nearly 4000 unique comments in xNepali blog, we have concluded that Yahoo is the most popular email service provider with 66% market share, the distant second is Hotmail.com with 13% market share, Google’s Gmail comes third with 11% market share among Nepali users.

It is to be noted that Ymail.com (2% market share) is also owned by Yahoo. Other Yahoo domains like yahoo.ca, yahoo.in, yahoo.co.uk were also placed in ‘others’. MSN’s Hotmail.com data doesn’t include msn.com, live.com and so on.

How did we do the calculation?

I came across a plug-in in WordPress that can extract all the email from the comments in a WordPress blog. From the extracted comments, some clearly fake emails were deleted and the domains of the email were extracted. These domain names were used to do the statistical analysis.

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