Yahoo Mail
By Apollo Global Management, United States
Ad-supported free webmail from Yahoo, majority owned by Apollo Global Management, with 20 GB on the free plan.
At a glance
- Cheapest plan per year
- $60
- Yahoo Mail Plus, 12 × monthly, same price at renewal
- Your own domain from
- Not offered
- Not stated for every plan
- Works in Apple Mail and Outlook
- Yes
- Who can read stored mail
- The provider can
- Provider-held keys
Good to know
- Yahoo Mail holds the keys to your stored mail
- Its policy says mail content is used for ad profiles
- 2013: Breaches in 2013 and 2014 exposed account data for billions of Yahoo users; disclosed years later.
Where it stands among 24
Each fact with every provider's answer. Yahoo Mail is outlined.
Who can read your stored mail
The provider can
Only you 3
Only you, if switched on 4
The provider can 16
Not stated 1
Ads on the free plan
Free, with ads
Your own domain
Not stated
On a personal plan 12
Only on a business plan 3
Not offered 2
Works in Apple Mail and Outlook
Yes, standard IMAP
Yes, standard IMAP 17
Through a bridge app 1
No, its own apps only 3
Where the company is based
United States
European Union 7
Switzerland or Norway 5
Elsewhere 4
Plans and prices
In USD, as listed by Yahoo Mail on 2026-10-16.
Free
Free
20 GB. Ads; up to 3 disposable addresses
Yahoo Mail Plus
$60/yr
12 × $5 monthly
- People
- 1
- Storage
- 200 GB
- Own domains
- Not stated
- IMAP
- Yes
- Renews at
- Same price
No annual option stated. Ad-free, more disposable addresses. Custom domain support not stated.
Who can read your mail
- Provider can't read stored mail
- NoNo
- Subject lines encrypted
- NoNo
- Encrypted between its own users
- NoNo
- Encrypted mail to outsiders
- Not statedNot stated
- Built-in PGP
- NoNo
- Ads on the free plan
- YesYes
- Mail used for ads
- YesYes
- AI and your mail
- Not stated
Who you're trusting
- Owner
- Apollo Global Management
- Operating company
- Yahoo Inc.
- Based in
- United States
- Mail stored in
- United States
- Open-source apps
- NoNo
- Transparency report
- Not statedNot stated
- Latest audit
- None published
- Known incidents
- 2013
Apps and features
- Web Yes
- iPhone Yes
- Android Yes
- Windows No
- macOS No
- Linux No
- Works in Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird
- Yes, on every planYes, on every plan
- POP3
- YesYes
- Exchange ActiveSync
- Not statedNot stated
- Security key or passkey sign-in
- Not statedNot stated
- Authenticator-app 2FA
- YesYes
- Extra addresses
- Up to 3 disposable addresses on free; more with Plus
- Hide-my-email aliases
- NoNo
- Catch-all for your domain
- NoNo
- Calendar
- YesYes
- Contacts
- YesYes
- File storage
- NoNo
- Sieve filters
- Not statedNot stated
- Scheduled send
- YesYes
- Undo send
- YesYes
- Import from Gmail or Outlook
- YesYes
- Export your whole mailbox
- Not statedNot stated
- Auto-forwarding
- YesYes
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Sources (8)
- Yahoo privacy policyVendor, checked 2026-10-16
- Research summary of the provider's pages (no single link)AI-assisted research, spot-checked, checked 2026-10-16
- Wikipedia: Yahoo data breachesNews or reference, checked 2026-10-16
- Yahoo Mail PlusVendor, checked 2026-10-16
- Yahoo Mail storage subscriptionsVendor, checked 2026-10-16
- Research summary of the provider's pages (no single link)AI-assisted research, spot-checked, checked 2026-10-16
- Research summary of the provider's pages (no single link)AI-assisted research, spot-checked, checked 2026-10-16
- Yahoo HelpVendor, checked 2026-10-16