Yahoo finally axed external POP email for free users

[tcsenter]

Nevermind, its working now.

 

[Dari]

Why would anyone pay for email, let alone Yahoo's? Just go with Gmail.

 

[tcsenter]

Why would anyone pay for email, let alone Yahoo's? Just go with Gmail.

R.I.F.

 

[Mixolydian]

[you]@[yourdomain.com]

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[shortylickens]

Yeah my last email on the phone is from 4/14, but I use mine for VFW stuff and those guys are always sending tons of emails.

 

[lupi]

I'm still getting mail on the phone and while I haven't synced the desktop recently, had no problem there yet.

They've tried this before, after a year or so of dwindling use numbers they added it back free. Can't see this sticking as a lasting change with the 2 largest competitors having a free pop service.

 

[mikeymikec]

It's still free in the UK. Perhaps because of the BT/Yahoo partnership?

Their POP server access has had intermittent problems for ages though. It seems to me that if one receives a mail with a certain size attachment (relative to one's broadband speed), their POP server throws a hissy fit and terminates the connection during the download. This causes some Microsoft mail clients to repeatedly download the same mail and none received since then.

 

[shortylickens]

I'm still getting mail on the phone and while I haven't synced the desktop recently, had no problem there yet.

They've tried this before, after a year or so of dwindling use numbers they added it back free. Can't see this sticking as a lasting change with the 2 largest competitors having a free pop service.

Bingo.
Yahoo has no leverage in the market. They dont dictate terms.

 

[steppinthrax]

Yahoo axed the free public chat rooms years ago. That was the only thing from them that I used. Their email sucks. Lots of advertisements, lots of spam, very slow. I'm not surprised if they axe that as a free service as well. My wife uses yahoo mail. I use gmail.

 

[ultimatebob]

Yahoo axed the free public chat rooms years ago. That was the only thing from them that I used. Their email sucks. Lots of advertisements, lots of spam, very slow. I'm not surprised if they axe that as a free service as well. My wife uses yahoo mail. I use gmail.

Yeah... my wife uses Yahoo Mail as well since she had an SBC/AT&T DSL account that included it.

She ditched the DSL years ago, but kept the e-mail address.

 

[PokerGuy]

I can't believe people would actually consider paying for yahoo mail. There are plenty of ways of getting email for free, including pop-mail etc.

 

[shortylickens]

Yahoo axed the free public chat rooms years ago. That was the only thing from them that I used. Their email sucks. Lots of advertisements, lots of spam, very slow. I'm not surprised if they axe that as a free service as well. My wife uses yahoo mail. I use gmail.

I never get spam and Adblock takes care of the rest.

My bitch is their old layout was so much better. They changed it a couple months ago for no damn reason.

 

[tcsenter]

I'm still getting mail on the phone and while I haven't synced the desktop recently, had no problem there yet.

Try synching your desktop mail, please. Its been about 10 days that I haven't been able to get external POP mail through Yahoo. First several days, I just chalked it up to a Yahoo problem, server down, replacement, or something. I started getting curious yesterday when it had been more than a week. I was able to get my other email using another (locally installed) POP client, so its working fine on the other end.

 

[Miramonti]

Mine's still working, set to Asia.

 

[lxskllr]

Why does it have to be POP? Why not use IMAP?

 

[tcsenter]

Why does it have to be POP? Why not use IMAP?

Because neither Yahoo nor my other mail account support it? I use the web-based client, anyway, so its not like I'm downloading messages locally to three different computers.

 

[lxskllr]

Because neither Yahoo nor my other mail account support it? I use the web-based client, anyway, so its not like I'm downloading messages locally to three different computers.

I'm using IMAP with Yahoo. I use a client, but that shouldn't matter.

 

[tcsenter]

To clarify, its not my Yahoo mail that I am unable to access through POP, but an 'external' non-Yahoo email account that I have been using with the Yahoo account.

 

[lupi]

can't help you then, never tried to do that myself other than on one school email that is just auto forwarded to my yahoo but that isn't really a pop issue.

 

[Fritzo]

POP? What is this, 2002?

 

[Ichinisan]

POP? What is this, 2002?

If you want your Yahoo account to gobble-up mail from a couple non-Yahoo accounts, POP is the way to do it.

That's how I use a gmail account for all of my work email.

 

[Leros]

I can't believe people would actually consider paying for yahoo mail. There are plenty of ways of getting email for free, including pop-mail etc.

If I had Yahoo mail, I'd pay if it meant I could get the features I wanted.

If Gmail started charging $100 a year, I'd pay it without much thought. Switching email addresses would be a huge pain in the neck.

 

[CZroe]

Why would anyone pay for email, let alone Yahoo's? Just go with Gmail.

And Gmail is ditching Exchange support for standard accounts (per-user licensing with Microsoft).

If I had Yahoo mail, I'd pay if it meant I could get the features I wanted.

If Gmail started charging $100 a year, I'd pay it without much thought. Switching email addresses would be a huge pain in the neck.

Shhh! Dammit, man! Don't give them any ideas!

 

[mikeymikec]

POP? What is this, 2002?

The alternatives being "trust the free e-mail provider to store my e-mail safely forever and use crappy webmail" and "trust the e-mail provider to store my e-mail safely forever and use IMAP"? I think I'll use POP, e-mail software of my choice and set up the way I want it, and store the e-mail safely myself.

 

[lxskllr]

The alternatives being "trust the free e-mail provider to store my e-mail safely forever and use crappy webmail" and "trust the e-mail provider to store my e-mail safely forever and use IMAP"? I think I'll use POP, e-mail software of my choice and set up the way I want it, and store the e-mail safely myself.

I don't understand what you're saying here. All of my mail is backed up by me, with a redundant copy on the mail server. I'll agree trusting third parties is a bad idea on a few levels, but if you aren't running your own mail server, POP and IMAP are equivalent for mail safety.