Can you suggest an email server, other than Gmail, as an alternative to Yahoo! email?

I use AOL's free e-mail service. It has unlimited online storage (a good thing since I keep an amazing number of items) and good security. It has a decent spam filter, but doesn't automatically delete spam; it puts it into a folder so you can decide whether or not it truly is spam. I haven't had any problems downloading files or sending them (I think there is somewhere around a 16MB limit per e-mail when sending an attachment).

Some problems I've had: I can see embedded pictures, but can't send them (they say they are working on that) and there aren't many bells and whistles (for example, there are only a few fonts available to use...though you can see others as long as you have that font on your computer).

This site http://email.about.com/od/freeemailreviews/tp/free... goes through some of the pros and cons of 17 different free e-mail services. You may want to check it out. You can access any of them through that site, including AOL. This site https://new.aol.com/freeaolweb/ allows you to sign up for the free AOL.

I hope you find the perfect one for you!

Same problem here, and also started on the same date, 10/18/2011. I have tried 3 different computers, 3 different browsers and nothing works. I have switched back to Yahoo Classic, but it still does not work. The only difference being that when I try to attach a file I get a web page that just says "Server Hangup". In the "new" Yahoo Mail you get no indication of error. It just does nothing. I have another, less used, Yahoo account and everything works fine there. I'm guessing that this problem is isolated to a group of user accounts, probably all housed on the same server or set of servers. Just a guess. Getting help from Yahoo via the web is impossible. We need to find a way to notify them of this issue. ADDITIONAL INFO: As of this morning, 10/20/2011 attachments seem to be working again. I can upload and download e-mail attachments so Yahoo must have found the issue. If you are still having problems I would say be patient as it seems that they are working on it.

You should see if you can get an alumni account from your uni. I use that, and I just started paying for an email! (Yeah, I got that fricken' fed up with all these "free email" servers, I've had various problems with the top 3, and after my issue with Yahoo I don't trust them for anything serious, especially not my writing!)

The other really big "Free" one is hotmail. It's done through Microsoft and people generally like it. I had, easily, my worst problem with Spam when I used Hotmail, but that's been about two years ago.

I've included a list of the "Top 17 Free Email Services" in my sources.

There's something called mail.com through ask.com. It doesn't look too bad, but I can't vouch for it.

If you're willing to pay I will vouch for me.com through Apple. There are so many helpful features, it's pretty amazing.

Good luck.

I've been having that problem with Yahoo email as well. So far right-clicking the link and selecting "open in a new window" has worked for me. As far as other email providers, msn.com works okay for me.