Yandex Mail
Russian free email service
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, and is one of the three largest email services in Runet (along with Gmail and Mail.ru). The service uses automatic spam filtering, checks for viruses using antivirus software from Dr.Web, and an email translator.
There is a mobile app, Yandex.Mail, for Android and iOS.
History
Yandex.Mail began operations on 26 June 2000. 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. 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.
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.
In 2013, email templates were added in Yandex.Mail.
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