2012
According to the report of comScore research company (February, 2012), the most popular services of e-mail in the world by the size of daily audience for January, 2012 are:
- Hotmail belonging to Microsoft
- Yahoo,
- GMail,
- Mail.ru (12.1 million)
- AOL (10.6 million)
- Mail (10.2 million),
- Mail.ru (5.9 million people a day),
- "Yandex mail", (unlike data of ComScore (3.9 million), according to the estimates of TNS in January, 2012 the average daily audience of "Yandex.Mail" made 5.1 million)
- Orange Mail belonging to France Telecom and
- 126.com[1].
Mail.ru remains the only service in top five which is not giving to users opportunities to address a mailbox using IMAP4 protocol.