This is exactly what PC World magazine says. They name Yahoo! Mail B eta the best one. I am kind of surprised to this decision. I am pretty sure that the people, who took this decision of naming them the best know a lot. However, I would like to know why. Most of the people I have talked to always name gmail the most convenient one. Gmail has a very fast service and they group the mails into one conversation making it very easy to access. Yahoo! mail is a way too similar to the Windows Live Mail, which takes the 2nd place. Windows live mail is actually a bit faster than Yahoo! mail. This is what pcworld has to say about Yahoo!

Yahoo’s beta resembles traditional desktop e-mail programs, allowing you to sort mail by date or sender, resize fields, keep detailed contact information, scroll through messages with keyboard shortcuts, and create rules to sort messages. It’s powerful and elegant, though slower than Gmail.

Yes there are shortcuts in Yahoo! but it is a big hassle for normal visitors to remember all those shortcuts. Maybe it is easy for those pcworld nerds to memorize the shortcuts and other features but shouldn’t the best mail be named considering the convenience of the normal users?