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Yahoo! blocked the viewing of free Yahoo! Mail accounts through email clients (Outlook/Outlook Express/Mozilla etc) in April 2002. It now offers this feature only to subscribers of its premium account, Yahoo! Mail Plus. If you have a Yahoo! Mail Plus subscription, then click here for setup instructions.
If you have the free account, someone has worked out a solution so that you too can use Outlook Express to view and reply your emails through Yahoo! Mail.
First, you need to download and install a software called YPOPs!. This free software provides easy to use and secure access to your Yahoo! Mail account in any email client. Click here to download.
Note: YPOPs only supports windows machines as of now. Developers are currently working on Linux and Mac versions.
After you are done with installing YPOPs! Follow the steps given below to configure your free Yahoo! Mail account with Outlook Express
Open Outlook Express.
From the tool bar, Click Tools > Accounts.
The Internet Accounts pop-up window will appear, with the Mail tab in the foreground.
Click Add, select Mail.
The Internet Connection Wizard pop-up window is now displayed.
Key in your name and click Next.
Enter the full Yahoo address.
Click Next. (For example, you should enter “username1@yahoo.com”)
For E-mail Server Names, select POP3 as your option from the drop down.
Type “localhost” for both Incoming (POP3) and Outgoing mail (SMTP) servers.
Click Next.
For Internet Mail Logon window, type your Yahoo! Mail ID and password:
Type just the the yahoo ID (for example, if your yahoo mail ID is username1@yahoo.com, you need to type Username1 as your user ID)
Password is your Yahoo! Mail password. (Ensure you are entering the correct password)
If you do not wish to type in your password every time you check your mail, tick theRemember password box.
Click Next.
Click Finish.
Now in the Internet Accounts window, click on the new account named localhost and click Properties.
Localhost properties windows will pop up.
Select Servers tab and in the bottom tick the checkbox My server requires authentication.
Click Settings.
In the Outgoing Mail Server window, check the Log on using button and enter your Yahoo! Mail address as the Account name and your Yahoo! Mail password as the password.
Click OK.
Next select the Advanced tab and increase the Server Timeout to Long (5 minutes).
Click OK and close.
Now your configuration settings are ended and you should be able to access your free Yahoo! Mail account in Outlook Express. (Make sure to run YPOPs! every time you start outlook or else you will get an error message).
