Photo taken on Aug 19, 2013 shows an announcement on the email web pages of Yahoo China. Yahoo China said in the announcement that it decided to shut down its email service on Aug 19. [Photo/Xinhua]

Wan Quan is also one of yahoo China's users who've been slowly driven away by its competitors.

"The closure won't affect me too much and I've migrated my account to AliCloud. I chose yahoo China ten years ago because at the time there weren't many other free and quality options, but now I also use qq because it's easier to send super size emails."

Now, the top five e-mail services in China are all provided by Chinese companies. Tecent QQ, Sina, and Sohu are some of Yahoo's most outstanding rivals.

Yahoo's email service rank has dropped from number four to six from last year. And for foreign email lovers, there's also some good choice.

It's indeed troublesome, but the solution is one click away.