| is Yahoo Mail really in such a bad place that | they need to outsource their file attachment | hosting? I imagine that Yahoo! Mail is similar to Gmail in

| is Yahoo Mail really in such a bad place that | they need to outsource their file attachment | hosting? I imagine that Yahoo! Mail is similar to Gmail in that there are size limits on the emails that you can send. Your email with attachments can't be over 20 ~ 25Mb on Gmail. I think that Hotmail's limit is around 10MB. Partnering with Dropbox would allow one to use their Dropbox space for much larger files. | 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. Dropbox allows you to share files publicly, IIRC. They could take this a couple of ways: - When attaching, the user could be presented with a dialog that allows them to select files already in their Dropbox account. Therefore if you wanted to upload a file, you could drop it into your Dropbox folder, then compose an email. - When attaching, the user uploads the file to their Dropbox account via the Yahoo! Mail web interface. Both of these ways will probably create a URL to the file on Dropbox (publicly accessible, private with password, obfuscated single-use URL, etc). [ Also, we're talking about webmail clients like Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail. It really seems like you're comparing them to Outlook+Exchange, which is something completely different. ]