[3] The service uses automatic spam filtering, checks for viruses using antivirus software from Dr.Web, and an email translator.

[7][8][2] In 2012, Yandex.Mail was the fastest growing and one of the five most popular email services in Europe, and received 25 thousand unique visitors a month.

It combines several Yandex services: Mail, Disk, Calendar, Messenger, Contacts and Notes, and provides users with 20 GB of free space.

[11] In 2014, 1.2 million Yandex account credentials (logins and passwords) were published on a public leak forum.

Yandex denied being attacked directly and instead suggested that users fell victim to phishing.