Yahoo's Chinese arm is shutting down its email service later this year, highlighting the brand's diminishing profile in the country.
China Yahoo! said it would close its email service by August 19, a move that will leave it with just its web portal business.
Users of the service were told they must register with AliCloud, a unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, to prevent emails and other information from being deleted when Yahoo's mail service stops.
China Yahoo! has been operated by Alibaba since 2005.
The US internet giant has come under criticism in the past over its business in China. In 2007, executives apologised after providing evidence that was subsequently used by the Chinese authorities used to convict government critics.
The company said it was legally obliged to divulge information about its users to the Chinese government - but said it was unaware it would be used to convict dissidents.
Alibaba public relations official Zhang Jianhua said the end of the mail service would affect millions of users, although he did not have a more precise figure.
"We are not sure how long we can provide the email service under Yahoo's current technological structure," he explained.
A China Yahoo! statement added: "We will offer several options to our users to make this transition as smooth as possible, and China Yahoo! users will have four months time to migrate their accounts."
It said the migration process had already begun.
Users of China's Twitter-like microblogs expressed anger at the news.
A post under the name "Lisa's paw" said: "How can they do this? All of sudden Yahoo mail can't be logged onto and everything was moved to AliCloud. Did you ask for users' opinions?"
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