Yahoo testing e-mail service that will send up to 300 photos

Yahoo is testing an e-mail service that will let people share digital photos without the hassle of often cumbersome attachments that hog storage space and bandwidth.

Yahoo is testing an e-mail service that will let people share digital photos without the hassle of often cumbersome attachments that hog storage space and bandwidth.

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Yahoo is touting the free service, available at http://photomail.mail.yahoo.com, as a simple way to distribute photos to family and friends.

Thumbnails of up to 300 photos can be inserted into a single e-mail that can be sent to hundreds of recipients.

Even if it contains 300 photos, an e-mail is unlikely to be rejected by inboxes with limitations on the size of a message because each thumbnail is just three to five kilobytes.

Yahoo designed the "PhotoMail" service so it can be opened and viewed no matter where an e-mail is addressed. All the photos inserted into the e-mails are stored on Yahoo computers, enabling recipients to see a full-resolution image by clicking on any thumbnail.

The photos can be inserted into an e-mail by dragging images stored on computer hard drives or Web sites.

Using the test service requires a regular e-mail account. Installing a small piece of software also is required.