According to comScore, Yahoo had the most email users in the U.S. in August, with 88.4 million. Following Yahoo were Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail with 45.2 million users, AOL with 44.8 million users, and Gmail with 26.0 million users.

Yahoo mail users also spent the most time using their email at 286 minutes per month, followed by AOL users (229 minutes), Microsoft users (204 minutes) and Gmail (82 minutes).

Source: Saul Hansell, “AOL’s Luddites Love Their email More than Google’s Geeks”, The New York Times, Sep 12, 2008

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