{"rid":"storage/yahoo-mail-20-gb-down-from-1-tb","card":{"rid":"storage/yahoo-mail-20-gb-down-from-1-tb","eid":"yahoo","topic":"storage","slug":"yahoo-mail-20-gb-down-from-1-tb","provider":"Yahoo Mail (free) — 20 GB, down from 1 TB","url":"https://mail.yahoo.com","domain":"yahoo.com","category":"cloud-drive","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-quota","vorder":6,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"defaulted","needs_card":null,"needs_phone":null,"needs_id":null,"needs_institution":null,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":41701867,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Yahoo's own help, read live: \"Yahoo Mail incluye actualmente 20 GB de almacenamiento gratuito con cada cuenta\" = 20 GB free per account. 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That APPENDLIMIT is a live, machine-readable per-message byte cap.","chaining":"20 GB × N accounts — under the 500 GB bar per unit, so only interesting if account creation is trivially automatable, which the 2026 regional cuts suggest it is not.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"per-object-cap **41,697,280 bytes (39.77 MiB","source":"https://es-us.ayuda.yahoo.com/kb/new-yahoo-mail/SLN37064.html"}],"limits_note":"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`.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"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.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://es-us.ayuda.yahoo.com/kb/new-yahoo-mail/SLN37064.html","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"\"20 GB de almacenamiento gratuito\", 100 GB / 1 TB / Mail Plus 200 GB tiers"},{"url":null,"date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: imap.mail.yahoo.com:993 CAPABILITY -> APPENDLIMIT=41697280"},{"url":null,"date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: smtp.mail.yahoo.com:587 EHLO -> 250-SIZE 41697280"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Yahoo's own help, read live: \"Yahoo Mail incluye actualmente 20 GB de almacenamiento gratuito con cada cuenta\" = 20 GB free per account. 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