Yahoo! Mail Partners With Dropbox To Add File Attachments

&#62; This is good news for both companies, specifically Dropbox. This brings an all new audience to the service, which has become a mainstay in the workplace. The company has yet to crack the consumer area<p>That's completely backwards. Dropbox started as a consumer tool and is now creeping into the workplace.

&#62; Yahoo! Mail is still the #3 most used mail service in the world with Hotmail and Gmail in front of it.<p>I'd love to see numbers of how many people ACTIVELY use these services and not just total email addresses. Many, many people I know of use Yahoo and Hotmail for spam traps, or set an email address there up long ago and then long ago abandoned it.<p>Claiming "most used mail service" is either very misleading, or sloppy writing.

Cool. Dropbox seems to be pushing hard to become the goto for email attachments. If Mailbox doesn't win, they'll still have market share with Yahoo.<p>Mostly surprised Yahoo would do this - I can't imagine we'll be seeing a similar deal with Gmail/Outlook.

They are playing catchup to competitors, and they are diluting their own profits / sharing them with others - which is fine, though I hope they realize this. And I hope they have a very solid agreement with Dropbox.<p>Google so far will still win in the overall big ecosystem. You just can't compete with the synergy and safety of one organization fully controlling / having full management capabilities over all of the pieces.

Is there really any need for this?<p>Maybe I'm a little traditional but last time I checked Microsoft handled this just fine on their own, is Yahoo Mail really in such a bad place that they need to outsource their file attachment hosting?<p>When I'm using outlook, I click on a file once and it downloads, simple as that, I don't want to have to screw around signing up for yet another service just to use it.<p>I don't really care how amazing Dropbox may be, if I have to screw around accessing another service instead of just clicking "download attachment" then the user experience is already ruined for me.

Yahoo mail is amazing, and I am referring to the classic version. It looks like they are working hard to get some attention. Now this is much better news than their latest acquisition

Yahoo already had an attachment service through another company. I can't even recall the name of it now.

If anyone is curious, this is the first step to monetizing email beyond ads. Fast forward a few years and the store as much content as you want (Gmail model) will be an exception not the rule.

Cute, but I'm still not using Yahoo! Mail for anything except spam.

I wonder what the implications are for legal document retention?

Congrats Yahoo! and Dropbox! Looks like a great integration. Very similar to what Attachments.me has done for gmail to Dropbox, Box, Skydrive and Google Drive.

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expect Yahoo! toolbar in the Dropbox installer soon ;)

Unless I get some free DropBox space by using Yahoo, I don't care.