POP settings for Yahoo mail?

Marty999

I have just set up a Yahoo email address for use on Freecycle and I'd like to use Outlook 2003 as my mail client rather than the webmail interface.

I am having trouble finding the correct settings though as to how to do this, can anyone point me in the right direction please? It's the basic Yahoo mail, not Yahoo Plus.

Browntoa

think you cannot do it direct you need this

http://ypopsemail.com/

davester

Thats rich charging $19.95 a year so you have a plus account so you can. Move to another email like Gmail and use that. would be my recommendation, I know its a hassel with telling everyone your new address, but I think worth it in the end

Marty999

davester wrote: »

Thats rich charging $19.95 a year so you have a plus account so you can. Move to another email like Gmail and use that. would be my recommendation, I know its a hassel with telling everyone your new address, but I think worth it in the end

Yes I am already with Gmail and am very pleased with it, but to use Freecycle it seems you have to register with a Yahoo email address as the system runs under Yahoo Groups. Have tried the Gmail mail fetcher but it wouldn't work.

spud17

I signed up to Freecycle and used with Thunderbird

pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk port 995 ssl
smtp.mail.co.uk port 465 ssl

And Outlook Express is same but also requires 'Server Authentication' to be selected.

ps I use Gmail to fetch it.

Marty999

spud17 wrote: »

I signed up to Freecycle and used with Thunderbird

pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk port 995 ssl
smtp.mail.co.uk port 465 ssl

And Outlook Express is same but also requires 'Server Authentication' to be selected.

ps I use Gmail to fetch it.

Thanks for this info, I have tried the options but it still won't let me log on to the incoming mail server. Perhaps it's just that Outlook 2003 is not supported?

Marty999

spud17 wrote: »

ps I use Gmail to fetch it.

PS: I am now asking Gmail to import the Yahoo mail and I think it should work. I was previously asking Gmail to check my Yahoo mail using POP3 and it didn't like that.

macman

Marty999 wrote: »

Yes I am already with Gmail and am very pleased with it, but to use Freecycle it seems you have to register with a Yahoo email address as the system runs under Yahoo Groups. Have tried the Gmail mail fetcher but it wouldn't work.

I seem to recall that you have to create a Yahoo address to register with YG. But once you've created that, you can access the account and change the default notification address to whatever you want. All my Freecycle notifications go straight to my Googlemail address.

Marty999

macman wrote: »

I seem to recall that you have to create a Yahoo address to register with YG. But once you've created that, you can access the account and change the default notification address to whatever you want. All my Freecycle notifications go straight to my Googlemail address.

Great Idea Macman! I have set this forwarding lark up and it's working fine, many thanks. And thanks to the other guys who responded too.
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spud17

I have just set up a Yahoo email address for use on Freecycle and I'd like to use Outlook 2003 as my mail client rather than the webmail interface.

It may not be active yet?

Isn't there some some sort of validation required, to confirm things?

I can't really remember because it's a couple of years back that I signed up.

Ah well, all sorted I see.

BexTech

I signed up for Freecycle using a Yahoo email (years back), but have my messages delivered to a non-Yahoo email address, you just add your other email address on to the yahoo group and tell it to send them to that.

You can also forward yahoo email to another email account if you wish.

I just set up a non-Yahoo email for Freecycle and others for other groups and use them.