AOL Mail

AOL Mail is a web-based email service offered by AOL, a division of Yahoo! Inc, which provides free email accounts to users. Despite being an early adopter of the internet and serving as the first email provider for many, AOL has maintained its commitment to offering a quality service. However, there has been a significant drop in the number of users of this email service. Until 2015, there were still around 2.1 million people that used AOL's dial-up service, this number dropped dramatically, as in 2021, only a few thousand were still subscribed to AOL

Although not the most sophisticated email service available, AOL Mail is highly regarded for its privacy and user-friendly interface. It boasts several distinguishing features, including unlimited storage capacity, the ability to delete emails in bulk, a reading pane mode that allows users to read emails without leaving their inbox, and support for Pop and IMAP protocols, which enables users to download emails directly onto their device.

One potential drawback of AOL Mail is its limited attachment size. Unlike other popular email services such as Gmail and Outlook, AOL does not offer the option to upload large files to an external drive. As a result, users are restricted to modest attachment sizes.

Developer/Owner: AOL
Launch date: December 1999
Website: mail.aol.com

Users: ~1.5 million users as of 2021