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Outlook Express and Yahoo mail account

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  • 11-03-2008 9:25pm
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    7croghan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭


    Hi folks

    Just got myself a new laptop and I am trying to configure outlook express to access my yahoo mail account.

    I have followed the instructions posted on the Yahoo site,

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/pop/pop-08.html

    However , everytime I try to access my mail via outlook I keep getting the popup box looking prefilled with my username and password. Clicking OK just brings the popup box back up again and again.

    I have tried reentering the username and password and whilst it lets me do this the same result keeps occuring.

    Any tips ?

    Thanks


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    #2
    GoneShootin
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    Silly question - but are you using Yahoo standard or using Yahoo Plus [Paid]?


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    Snowbat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    As GoneShootin alludes to, Yahoo's POP3 is only available on the paid service. For Yahoo standard I use YPOPs!.


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    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    Snowbat wrote: »
    For Yahoo standard I use YPOPs!.

    Interesting Snowbat. Do you know with that can Yahoo Mail standard be set to automatically forward all mail to another address? I've a client that wants to use their own .com as their email address, but they currently use yahoo mail and are concerned that they would miss out on some mail when they make the change.


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    Snowbat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    Not by itself, no. The program just acts as a POP3<>Yahoo webmail gateway. In Linux you could use it together with Fetchmail and Procmail for automated retrival and forwarding.

    There are occasional issues using YPOPs though. When Yahoo makes a change to the webmail interface, it sometimes breaks YPOPs and you have to wait a few days for a new version of YPOPs to be released. I've also seen some mails with no To/From/Date and a body that says something about the Yahoo page being temporarily unavailable. I suspect this resulted in the original mail being deleted without retry. For these reasons I would not recommend YPOPs for any kind of business use. A better solution is to upgrade the account to Yahoo Plus - it has both POP3 and forwarding options.


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    7croghan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭7croghan


    Thanks for all the help folks

    YPOPS is the way to go


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