Connect Incredimail to Yahoo email
In order to access your Yahoo
email using Incredimail you need to have POP3 access to your Yahoo
email mailbox.
Note: As of march POP3 access and
forwarding is a premium service only. The following still appears to
be true for accounts created before March 2004 and hence I have left
it here for completeness.
To get POP3 access with the
standard email account you need to sign up as a Yahoo! Delivers member
(currently February 2004 free). Once signed up you then need to enable
POP3 access and mail forwarding. You will find both options on the
mail options page of your mailbox. the procedure is as follows:
If you are not signed into your account, you
can check your status or become a Yahoo! Delivers member by doing the
following:
- Sign into your Yahoo! Mail account.
- Click on Mail Options on the top
right-hand corner.
- Click on Yahoo! Delivers on the
Options Page
- Click Yes!, please enrol me in the
Yahoo! Delivers promotional program..
- Fill out the rest as you desire, then click
the button, Finish.
Once you have completed these steps, click on
POP3 and Forwarding Status on the Options page to continue with your
registration for these services.
If you don't have POP3 Access you may want to consider using Ypops which is a
small add-on program that provides POP3 access to Yahoo email.
If you do have POP3 access
then proceed as follows:
Once POP3 access has been enabled
you then need to configure Incredimail. You will need to know the
names of POP3 and SMTP severs this varies depending on region. e.g.
the POP3 server for USA users is POP.mail.yahoo.com and for UK users
it is POP.mail.yahoo.co.uk .
The following uses USA servers, for users
in other regions just modify the POP3 and SMTP server addresses, if in
doubt consult MailOptions- Help.
The following information to
configure your Yahoo! POP3 account:
Incoming mail (POP3) server: POP.mail.yahoo.com (USA customers)
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Account name: Your Yahoo! Mail name (your address without @yahoo.com)
Incredimail allows you to add a new email
account to your existing profile. This means you do not have to
replace your current settings in order to send and receive Yahoo! Mail
messages. The procedure is as follows:
- From the Tools menu, choose
Accounts.
- Click the Add button.
- In the Account settings wizard select
let me configure settings myself.
- In the text box labelled Your Name,
type your name and in the Email Address box, type your Yahoo! Mail
address (be sure to include @yahoo.com) and click Next.
- On the Incoming and outgoing mail servers
screen enter POP.mail.yahoo.com in the Incoming Mail
Server box. and smtp.mail.yahoo.com in the Outgoing Mail
Server box.
- Click Next.
- On the User name and password screen in the
User Name box, type your Yahoo Mail ID (your email address
without the @yahoo.com) and in the Password box, type your
Yahoo Mail password.
- Incredimail will recover your password from
an existing account on the same machine .So if you were using this
account with an existing email client and have forgotten the
password click recovery my password link and follow the
instructions.
- Click Finish.
- You will receive a congratulations screen
click ok.
- The mail accounts screen is displayed with
the newly configured account.
Important: The Yahoo! Mail SMTP server
now requires authentication. To turn this setting on:
- click the account labelled
POP.mail.yahoo.com to highlight it and click properties.
- The general tab displays general account
information that you have just configured you may want to change the
account name to something a little more meaningful like
-Yahoo-oeupdates1.
- Select the Servers tab.
- Check the box next to My Server Requires
Authentication.
- Click settings and ensure that it is set to
use same settings as my incoming mail server.
- Click ok .
To control deletion of messages from the
Yahoo! Mail Server:
- Select the Advanced tab.
- In the Delivery section at the
bottom of the window, check Leave a copy of messages on server if
you want to save your Yahoo! Mail messages on the Yahoo! Mail server
as well as on your local computer. Do not check this
box if you want your messages to be deleted from the Yahoo Mail
server once you have received them in Incredimail. If you want to
access your email from both the Incredimail client and the Yahoo web
based client then you need to leave a copy of the mail on the
server.
- Click ok.
- When finished on the Mail Accounts
screen click close.
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