{{short description|Defunct free webmail website}} {{For|the delivery of mail by rockets|rocket mail}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox website | name = RocketMail | screenshot = Rocketmails.png | caption = RocketMail homepage (1998
–1998) | url = {{URL|rocketmail.com}} | commercial = Yes | type = Webmail | registration = Yes | language = | num_users = | owner = Four11.com | launch_date = 1996 | revenue = | current_status = Defunct }}
'''RocketMail''' was one of the first major free webmail services. The service was originally a product of Four11 Corporation. For a brief time, RocketMail battled with Hotmail for the number-one spot among free webmail services. Four11, including RocketMail, was acquired by Yahoo! in 1997 for $92 million.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-Four11-for-free-email/2100-1023_3-204033.html |title=Yahoo buys Four11 for free email |first=Jeff |last=Pelline |work=CNET |publisher=CBS Interactive |date=8 October 1997}}</ref> Yahoo! assimilated the RocketMail engine. Yahoo! Mail was essentially the old RocketMail Webmail system.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-mail-hopes-to-lure-users-with-ymail-com/ |title=Yahoo Mail hopes to lure users with 'ymail.com' |last=Shankland |first=Stephen |date=18 June 2008 |work=CNET |access-date=8 July 2010 |publisher=CBS Interactive}}</ref>
At the time of the transition, RocketMail users could either choose a Yahoo! ID, since they were not guaranteed the availability of their RocketMail ID on Yahoo!, or could use ''username'''.rm''''' as their Yahoo! ID. Thus, they were able to keep their rocketmail.com address and receive the same services as all Yahoo! users.
On 19 June 2008, Yahoo! started the RocketMail brand again by allowing new users to sign up for accounts under the rocketmail.com domain, which had not been possible since its acquisition of Four11 Corporation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/19/business/NA-TEC-US-Yahoo-Mail.php |title=Yahoo addresses narrowing e-mail options with addition of "ymail", "rocketmail" domains |date=19 April 2008 |work=International Herald Tribune |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803042135/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/19/business/NA-TEC-US-Yahoo-Mail.php |archive-date=3 August 2008 |url-status=dead |agency=The Associated Press |location=San Francisco }}</ref> In April 2013, Yahoo! closed support for creating new RocketMail email addresses; existing RocketMail accounts were not affected.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail-for-desktop/SLN14928.html?impressions=true |title=Rocketmail and Ymail no longer being offered as registration options |date=23 October 2014 |website=help.yahoo.com |publisher=Yahoo! |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141214124708/https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail-for-desktop/SLN14928.html?impressions=true |archive-date=14 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Yahoo! Inc.}}
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