as you’ve probably figured out, yahoo email is THE worst free email provider out there, not to mention that yahoo is a rapidly failing company at this point anyway
with respect to big, free email companies, gmail is really hard to beat. personally, i think their webmail sucks, but you should be using IMAP with a client like thunderbird anyway, in which case who cares how bad webmail sucks.
THANK you, I thought I was the only one using Thunderbird anymore ;^)
I may try out the Kmail (KDE email), but haven’t gotten around to it yet.