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Free Yahoo POP3 email

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YahooPOPs is great
The setup is a little different
in your email client, for the POP3 address just type localhost and the SMTP needs to be your ISP's
The username/login and password are you're usual Yahoo ID and password
Also suggest setting the Server Timeouts to be as long as possible, it's a bit slow connecting fulling to Yahoo and getting the email

The help file with YahooPOPs only details the setup for Outlook XP, but I've gotten it to work for Outlook Express
 
sorry I am an idiot and have no idea how to use this. I just downloaded Yahoo pops, then configured it. What now??
 
Well I tried out both this and Web2pop. I will be sticking with Web2pop. It checks the mail much faster. Also yahoopop does NOT remember your settings in its current version. But i'm sure that will be fixed sometime.....
 
reporting back my results. I use The Bat! as an email client, which if you read the instructions, is one that is supported/tested with yahoopop. I can't believe how easy it was it to set up. Granted I didn't have to mess with the proxy settings since I'm not on one and now I can download my yahoo emails w/out a problem what so ever.

Very Cool Program! One of the few that I think is ultra useful.
 
I just tried this out on Windows 2000 with Outlook XP and it didn't pull the mail off the server, then the app crashed. I guess I'll fiddle around with the settings later, but I didn't have the easy setup everyone else seems to have had.
 
apemanttt: yahoo stopped their pop3 mail retrival service.

I'd be willing to bet it is pretty much like gotmail, a linux program I've been using to grab my hotmail mail.

Basically, it pretends to be a web browser and navigates through your messages like a web browser would, then streams them back to your mail client using the pop server progtocol.
 
yeah so i ended up PAYING YAHOO 20 bucks a couple months ago for a year of their POP3 service, and i can't send mail.

i have come to the conclusion that my ISP, Juno, doesn't allow any outgoing mail on any SMTP server other than their own, as they provide a juno email addy with their premium dial up service.

so i got fvcked 🙂
 
Procrastinators really are working on a good plan. I failed to do anything with my yahoo mail account and the result is. NO CHANGE! I use OE regularly to retrieve my email. Knock on wood...
 
I keep getting this erro while trying to retrive emails
I am using WinXP with Outlook Express 6
The host 'locahost' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'Yahoo1', Server: 'locahost', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D
 
I was using web2pop right after the service change from yahoo, but i gave up because the html encoded mail seemed to frequently come mangled with images missing.

Did anybody else have this prob, and was there a workaround?
 
Alot of my emails with pictures come messed up also...usually they are spam anyways...so no biggy.

Does anyone know for sure if using web2pop or yahoopop will conflict with norton antivirus email scanning? They use the same port... I'd like to use Outlook Express because I am most familiar with it, But I will use Eudora if norton can not properly scan my emails.
 
Just to let you know... version 0.3.2 was released. It fixes two major problems for me: the stupid pop-up window that came up, and it now saves your preferences.
 
web2pop linkified.
Download web2pop from this linky

I'm tryin' the yahoopop rightnow...it's takin' FOREVER to download 743 messages on an ATM connection! wonderin' if web2pop is any faster... we'll see in a few 🙂

oh, btw... GREAT POST 1Cheap2Crazy 😀

k, yahoopop completely CHOKED on the 743 msgs...but I think I'll keep usin' it after I get all that crap cleared out 🙂
For now, web2pop is working GREAT downloading all the msgs 😀
 
Electronics4Life My NAV is scanning it as it comes in w/ the web2pop program...however, I don't think that Yahoopop is workin' very well w/ NAV...it just crashed after it took like 20 minutes to download the msgs.... 😉
 
As for hotmail, I had alot of fun reading my friends mail through the crack which required only a URL.....

and i would love to compare the spam from hotmail to yahoo.
 
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