How many e-mails is 1.0GB on YAHOO?!?

Answer 1

about 70,000 emails depending on size

Answer 2

This may sound like a stupid answer, but 1 GB of e-mail on Yahoo is the same as 1 GB of e-mail everywhere else.
The short version is that 1 GB is about 1 billion characters, unless you use an Asian language, then it's half that. The long version follows below...

How many e-mails that relates to depends on the actual content the e-mails contains. Plain text emails, the most common and the only form of emails that conform to set standards, take up about 1 byte per character, plus the headers. Formatted emails, whether they're just coloured text, or include pictures/graphics, or other fancy stuff, vary greatly in size, and often take up 10-15 times as much space as plain text messages, simply because of all the extra data needed to do the formatting.

All e-mails contain a variable amount of control data, called headers, which varies depending on the origin of the email, the path the email has taken across the Internet, and the actual content of the email. The headers include information about the sender, the date and time of the email, the subject of the email, the language and character used to compose the email, as well as tracking information that tells you which route the email took across the Internet.

Although it's in a small amount, headers add to the size of an email. With the average length plain text email, the headers actually take up more space than the content of the email itself. With formatted ("fancy") emails, the headers are only a fraction of the size of the entire email.

Another major factor is attachments. They greatly enlarge the amount of space you use for emails.

The final result is: How many emails 1 GB is, depends on what emails you get, and what kind of your own you archive. A typical plain-text email is anywhere from <1 KB to 5 KB. Formatted emails typically range from 10 to 150 KB for the same amount of content, depending on number of fonts and colours used.
If all your emails average 5 KB in size, then 1 GB will hold about 200,000 emails. If they average around 10 KB, then it's about 100,000 emails.

And that's just for text content. If the email contains attachments, the only limit to the size of the message is Yahoo's 100 MB attachment size limit (on incoming messages, I'm pretty sure you still can't send messages that big through their system).

Answer 3

Depends on the lenght of the email messages you get plus the size of the attached files.

Answer 4

Depends on how long the emails are, if there are any pictures/attachments with them. However, it should be more than enough for the average computer user.

Answer 5

Impossible to answer, as each email is a different size (length of email, does it have pictures, is there and attachment, etc.) but it going to be a few hundred.

Answer 6

1 email is about 8 kilobytes and there is about 1000 kilobytes in a megabyte and there is 1000 megabytes in a gigabyte so do the math

Answer 7

Several thousand. I get about 1000 a week, and its only ever been as high as 20 percent.

Answer 8

Depends on how big the email is