POP3 in Yahoo Mail
For all Yahoo mail users who do not have yahoo pop3 option in their mail settings,good news,you can now access your mail without a Yahoo Plus account too.There is no software involved here,here is all you have to do.
Setting up Your Account
- Sign in to yahoo mail
- On the right hand side of the page after you sign in you will see Hi <your username> click on your name
- Enter your password again
- You will be in Account Information Page,here change your Preferred content to Yahoo Asia! by clicking on the edit on the right corner.
- Now Click on the Preferred content and change it to Yahoo Asia.
- Save All Changes
- Sign Out
- If everything has been done correctly you should see
on the top left corner of your screen.
You will now have a "POP3 Access and Forwarding" choice under Management settings!, enable it.
Setting up the Email Client
If you are using Outlook 2007 you can use the automatic settings by just typing in your username and password and letting outlook do the rest.
Typical settings are:
incoming server: plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com or (pop.mail.yahoo.com)
outgoing server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Advanced Setting:
Under outgoing server, the first box is checked. and use same settings as my incoming server.
Use port 995 and check the box, for SSL connection. second port is 465, and select SSL encryption.
Note:
There is no change in your account.
If your account was xyz@yahoo.com it will remain the same
Your yahoo account is on pop for the first time so, your email client will download all the thousands of emails in your yahoo mail folders ie. read ,unread,sent etc.
The video below should be helpful, as I have also configured Outlook in it.Note that in the video my regional settings are already Asia.
Also you can log in to your account from yahoo.com also,asia,yahoo is not necessary.
22 comments:
[quote]Advanced Setting:
Under outgoing server, the first box is checked. and use same settings as my incoming server.
Use port 995 and check the box, for SSL connection. second port is 465, and select SSL encryption.[/quote]
Leave ports as 25 & 100. No need to undertake this step. Doing so will disable your Anti-Virus program - such as NOD32 - to check for viruses as such Anti-Virus packages refuse SSL protocol on port 995 & 465!
Hello, I've tried this and it works good until you try to send email. I'm using Outlook Express (Outlook 2003 didn't work at all) and it receives fine, but won't send
- any thoughts?
iam already setting as your tutorial but when i want enable pop3, no one option "POP3 Access and Forwarding" , can give why...?
Excellent! I'm using UK instead of Asia with default port settings. I hope this configuration is a long term solution.ynd
I got this working and then set my region back to yahoo USA. POP3/SMTP from OE 6 still working. Cross your fingers.
Sajeev,
Thanks for this excellent tutorial. But beats me why Yahoo does not provide free POP access when Gmail and Hotmail both provide free POP access. Probably trying to milk money of early email adopters who started out on Yahoo mail. They probably have tons of email in their inbox, which makes switching difficult.
I was looking up info for a friend of mine who is in the above mentioned situation. I switched to Gmail long time back, because of Yahoo's hold up practices.
Thanks Sanjeev.
Looks like your solution is working. Finally we have something from yahoo as non-paid version of pop3.
yahoo refused me... help!
Works wonderful!
Thank-you!
This trick worked for me a couple months ago, with my old Yahoo account, but when I tried it with a new Yahoo account I set up today, no. POP3 is not selectable. Maybe Yahoo has closed this loophole?
To the Team! How do I transfer the e-mails from my Yahoo Sent Folders to outlook 2007 - specified folder?
Could you please add a visual tutorial!
Thank you all for your help!!
it's not working for me
thank you very much, it's really practical and useful
regards
Thanks for sharing!
May you have many years with smile on your face!
Great tutorial, I still cannot send any mail, only receive...any thoughts?
For all those having problems sending mail,check that you have set the outgoing server settings as mentioned.
I've added a video for setting up Outlook.
Newer versions of anti viruses support POP3S scanning,and have advanced heuristics.
Thanks a whole bunch SAJEEV!!!
that was great!
ONE Question:
In gmail, after downloading with outlook, the read/unread status of each message on the server will not change. I mean if you log onto gmail on the web, you will see the read/unread status as if nothing has changed (as before).
but with this trick you've taught us, yahoo sets all the messages you download with outlook as "read". is there any way to not alter the read/unread status?! this is very important to me. If anyone can help.... THANKS.
tq sajeev,
it is very useful, anda it is working .... :D
Thanks a million Sanjeev!! Leaving the ports on default waoks too.
OK _ Found this from a link when I went to upgrade my YPOPS app. I set everything up in my Outlook 2002 (SP3) and when I "test" everything checks out, except there is no "status" for "Log onto incoming mail server (POP3)" and when I tell Outlook to send/receive, the Y! account pops up wanting a password, and fails with a "reported error (0x800CCC92): 'your e-mail server rejected your login . .. The server responded ERR [SYS/PERM] pop not allowed for user.'".
Does this mean I can't use this method, or is there another work around?
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