- does Yahoo have free IMAP or POP? No - does Yahoo have a decent SPAM filter? No - how much free space for storage? Too little - can I use my own domain with yahoo mail? Don't know - does Yahoo have a decent interface? no
It is just totally outdated. I don't know if google makes money with gmail Honestly, I doubt it. But it helps them to keep (and track) its users. From the privacy perspective, gmail is a nightmare. But is is just too good thought out. It just works.
Generally I sit with ~600-700 mail in "spam" which appears to cover ~2 weeks of not-checking-spam-folder.
Not a bad ratio at all, much much less than 1%.
Hmm... then how does the iPhone client fetch mail from Yahoo?
"- does Yahoo have a decent SPAM filter? No"
I get more spam in my INBOX in my GMail account (which I have protected quite steadfastly) than my Yahoo account.
" - how much free space for storage? Too little "
Are you kidding me? Yahoo went to "unlimited" storage like 5 years ago!
Looks like you have a pretty strong bias. Time to re-think those assumptions...
As Google is a pretty key component of paid Google Apps, and the free version is an advertising venue, I think Google makes plenty of money with Gmail, both by selling it and selling advertising in it.