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Business Mail 

Your Business Mail plan includes a certain number of mailboxes, repositories into which 

email messages can be delivered. Each of those mailboxes is allotted 2GB of storage space 

on our dedicated Business Email servers (this means they can each hold email messages 

whose combined size adds up to 2GB). When you set up your email service, you will be able 

to create personalized email addresses; these addresses represent delivery routes to and 

from your mailboxes. You can use these email addresses and mailboxes yourself or assign 

them to friends or colleagues.  

Your Business Mail mailboxes are distinct from your free Yahoo! Mail account. With the 

Business Mail service, you will be able to send and receive email using both your free 

Yahoo! email address (such as you@yahoo.com) and your personalized email addresses 

(you@widgetdesigns.com). You ll be able to receive messages in both your free mailbox and 

your Business Mail mailbox(es). You can access both through Yahoo! s Webmail interface or 

with your own software via POP mail.  

Personal Address 

Personal Address works somewhat differently. Like Business Mail, Personal Address allows 

you to create personalized email addresses; however, instead of pointing to a mailbox on 

our Business Email servers, these email addresses are associated with a free Yahoo! 

mailbox. You and anyone to whom you assign an email address will be able to send and 

receive email using both your free Yahoo! email address (you@yahoo.com) and your 

personalized email address (such as you@widgetdesigns.com), and you will retrieve all of 

your messages by signing in to your free Yahoo! Mail account or using POP mail to download 

them with your own email client. Personal Address does not include any extra storage space 

for your free Yahoo! mailbox, but because each address is associated with a unique mailbox 

(and Yahoo! ID), your total email storage space can grow tenfold when you set up your 

service (10 email addresses at 250MB each equals more than 2GB!). 

If you currently use Personal Address but would like to take advantage of Business Mail s 

larger storage space, mailboxes, and other features, don t worry   you can upgrade 

anytime. Learn more in our online help center at 

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Email and Your Domain 

If you just signed up for your Web Hosting plan, your domain may still be pending. Pending 

means that your domain is not yet active across the Internet (if you are registering a new 

domain name) or that changes to your name server settings have not yet taken effect (if 

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