Anyone know if and how I can get Mail.app to display e-mails in my Yahoo.mail acount? I got the Hotmail plugin (kicks ace btw) is there one for Yahoo or whats the deal on that?
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I've gotten it to display my Yahoo messages, just not send them out. Make sure to put in your name and password. The incoming mail server is a POP3 and the incoming mail thingee needs to say smtp.youryahoodomain.yahoo.com
note- I use sbc yahoo, so the domain is sbcglobal, fill in your own.
I'm fairly new to Mail and POP3 clients in general. I still can't get outgoing mail to work, but that stuff is what I use to recieve it.
I've gotten it to display my Yahoo messages, just not send them out. Make sure to put in your name and password. The incoming mail server is a POP3 and the incoming mail thingee needs to say smtp.youryahoodomain.yahoo.com
note- I use sbc yahoo, so the domain is sbcglobal, fill in your own.
I'm fairly new to Mail and POP3 clients in general. I still can't get outgoing mail to work, but that stuff is what I use to recieve it.
Re: A little help
The incoming mail server is a POP3 and the incoming mail thingee needs to say smtp.youryahoodomain.yahoo.com
How do I find out what my "youryahoodomain" is again? Im new to this whole thing myself
The incoming mail server is a POP3 and the incoming mail thingee needs to say smtp.youryahoodomain.yahoo.com
How do I find out what my "youryahoodomain" is again? Im new to this whole thing myself
Got me there. I use sbcglobal, and that's that the example displayed. I guess I just got lucky there. Yahoo! Mail is not offically compatable with Mail yet, but the walk through for outlook express got the mail in for me. Good luck.
I use Yahoo.de (mainly because I've surprisingly get practically no spam even with Spam filters off) so I don't know if it'll be the same for you.
In your Yahoo prefs (the site were you check your mail, could be Options) there should be something about activating POP3 email. Well, it might be Yahoo or Lycos that does this, since I can't remember which.
After allowing POP3, I don't think you can check via the web anymore but such is life. Anyhoo...
Incoming : pop.mail.yahoo.de (yours will end in .com I imagine)
SMTP: Provided by your ISP
Thats about it... I think.
In your Yahoo prefs (the site were you check your mail, could be Options) there should be something about activating POP3 email. Well, it might be Yahoo or Lycos that does this, since I can't remember which.
After allowing POP3, I don't think you can check via the web anymore but such is life. Anyhoo...
Incoming : pop.mail.yahoo.de (yours will end in .com I imagine)
SMTP: Provided by your ISP
Thats about it... I think.
What did you expect? Yahoo offers a free web browser based email system. All of the others offer the same thing, if you want POP functionality, they charge for it. They make their money on advertising, the use of an email client means you don't see the ads and that means they don't make any money.
just get an email address at one of the many free POP3 email services.
That's what I did and I couldn't be happier with my email
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scem0
That's what I did and I couldn't be happier with my email
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