An easy way to delete old Yahoo emails and free up storage
This quick and simple way to delete messages with attachments or photos will make sure you stay within Yahoo’s new storage limits...for the rest of your life. By John Pint John Pint attacked by 11,000 email attachments At the end of July, 2025, it began to appear, a scary message from Yahoo telling me I had exceeded my email storage limit and if I didn't reduce it, I would no longer be able to send and receive messages. This would cut off communication with hundreds of people my wife and I had met while “teaching our way around the world” in South Korea, Spain, France, Japan, England and Saudi Arabia A quick search revealed that this little problem had been caused not by me but by Yahoo itself. For years they had been giving a terabyte of storage space to their non-paying customers, but now they announced that, effective August 27, 2025, they would cut this down to 20 gigabytes. That is a 98% drop in storage space! So, how many gigabytes was I using? I discovered I could see the a...