Yahoo Mail goes to the cloud with Dropbox integration

Posted on June 14, 2013 at 10:09 am

Yahoo has announced that its email client now offers integration with Dropbox’s cloud.

The partnership will allow users to send, share, and manage email attachments using Dropbox. Yahoo’s latest integration comes as the firm continues to revamp its product offerings.

“Email attachments can be tricky: they’ve got file size limits, you can’t keep them updated, and when you add people to a thread, attachments are the first to get left behind,” wrote Dropbox product designer Joshua Jenkins in a blog post.

“The Yahoo Mail team decided to fix this – by integrating with Dropbox.”

Starting immediately Yahoo Mail will support integration with Dropbox. The rollout will start with integration for Yahoo Mail versions in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish languages.

The integration allows users to send and receive files larger than 25MB. Integration supports the ability to save doc, picture, and video files.

For Yahoo the integration catches the company’s email client up to competitors such as Gmail and Outlook. Both Google and Microsoft web-based email clients offers support for cloud storage.

The Dropbox integration is unique for Yahoo as Dropbox does not own the cloud storage provider. Google and Microsoft created both Google Drive and SkyDrive for use with their email platforms.

Yahoo has been working to update their product portfolio over recent months. The team at Yahoo recently updated its Homepage. Yahoo also recently bought mobile app Summly for $30m.

Dropbox has been making waves over the past few months as well. Late last year the firm brought two-step authentication to its cloud offering. The security update came following a massive data breach suffered by the company last August.

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