Yahoo webmail

[BOAC]

To set up OE to download http mail I need the server address for yahoo webmail - anyone got it?

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

BOAC,

I was looking though the Yahoo Mail Help and these are the articles that they had:

Can I use Netscape, Eudora, or Outlook to send and read my Yahoo! Mail? (http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-02.html)

Microsoft Outlook Express (http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-06.html)

One of the quotes:

Yes! Yahoo! Mail users can read their Yahoo! Mail messages in Netscape, Eudora, or Outlook by subscribing to the POP/Forwarding service. This service allows you to use Outlook, Eudora, or another POP3 client to access and manage your Yahoo! Mail

Looks like they want you to pay money to access it out of the Yahoo Portal. From another help site:

Yahoo mail can be set up to send and receive in your Outlook Express also; refer to your Yahoo mail account for more information on this. Yahoo does charge a year fee for this service.

Take Care,

Richard

[The Nr Fairy]

I set up Outlook Express to get mail from my Yahoo account via SMTP and it didn't cost me a penny.

Check http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/context/context-36.html for further details and you may need to tweak your mail options.

[amanoffewwords]

Nr Fairy,

how does it deal with the spam folder? Does it download that too?

Cheers
amowf

[BOAC]

Thanks y'all. I was trying to avoid having to pay for the pop3 facility! I have tried every? combination of URL from my web access page in the 'server' box but none will it recognise.:{

[drag required]

Have a look at other yahoo countries, i.e. yahoo.es Spain, their email pop3 facility is free.

[TheShadow]

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/context/context-36.html

solution at this link doesn't work in Outlook

[The Nr Fairy]

Shadow:

I used both OE and Outlook (I changed to Outlook because it stores emails in a more robust format, which isn't as easily damaged as OE's "file per folder" format.

If you're a "Yahoo.co.uk" customer, modify the POP3 and SMTP server names to ".co.uk" instead of ".com" - thay may help. Other than that I don't know what to suggest.

amanoffewwords:

It only gets the contents of the Inbox, so if stuff is automatically sent to the Spam folder it will be left on the server.

[LunchMonitor]

How to is here (http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/mail/pop/pop-06.html) although I believe you have to subscribe to yahoo delivers which is free. But you get advertising mail from yahoo themselves and they collect info on your response to adverts thay send. This is only a privacy problem if you register with a real name, or have anything to hide.

[BOAC]

Drifting a bit 'off-track', here, guys and girls! My question related to retrieving HTTP MAIL in my yahoo box, not Pop3. I just need a server address for that if anyone has got it to work?

[The Nr Fairy]

BOAC:

I've had a scout around the Yahoo site,and there seems to be no mention of the HTTP option - it appears to be POP3 only.

OE supports POP3 / SMTP - unless there's a really good reason I'd suggest it's probably not worth the effort trying to get the HTTP option working.

[proxus]

That the webmail at http://www.jetthrust.com is really worthwhile.

You can easily get your mail delivered to your IE and set up all kinds of spam filters, It even offers 15 mb of webspace AND its aviation oriented.

(This is not an advert as I even live in another continent, so I'm not gaining anything by pointing this out).

It's simly the best webmail I've come across.

Proxus