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| Developer(s) | Yandex |
|---|---|
| Initial release | June 2000; 24 years ago (June 2000) |
| Type | Email service |
| Website | mail |
Yandex Mail (Russian: Яндекс Почта, romanized: Yandeks Pochta; formerly stylised as Yandex.Mail) is a Russian free email service developed by Yandex. It was launched on 26 June 2000,[1][2] and is one of the three largest email services in Runet (along with Gmail and Mail.ru).[3] The service uses automatic spam filtering, checks for viruses using antivirus software from Dr.Web, and an email translator.[4]
There is a mobile app, Yandex.Mail, for Android and iOS.[5]
Yandex.Mail began operations on 26 June 2000.[1] In 2009, it was launched a free service, Yandex.Mail for domain, where users can create up to a thousand email accounts in one domain.[6][2] In 2010, individual spam filters were added. An email translator was added in 2011; initially, only English and Ukrainian were available. Since 2016, 40 languages are available.[7][8][2]
In 2012, Yandex.Mail was the fastest growing and one of the five most popular email services in Europe, and received 25 thousand unique visitors a month.[9]
In 2013, Email templates were added in Yandex.Mail. Since June 2013, the service has an "email marker" that differentiates incoming mails by their types.[10]
In September 2020, Yandex.Mail 360 replaced Yandex.Mail for domain. It combines several Yandex services: Mail, Disk, Calendar, Messenger, Contacts and Notes, and provides users with 20 GB of free space.[11]
In 2014, 1.2 million Yandex account credentials (logins and passwords) were published on a public leak forum. Yandex denied being attacked directly and instead suggested that users fell victim to phishing.[12]
In February 2021, Yandex disclosed that an employee had been selling access to user accounts. Yandex stated that it notified owners of 4887 affected accounts urging them to change passwords.[13]
