If you subscribe to Yahoo! Mail Plus, you can download messages received at your Yahoo! Mail account to any email program using POP. If you do not, you cannot. I mean not directly. A number of smart tools can translate your web-based Yahoo! Mail account into a POP account Outlook Express understands. One of the smartest of these tools is YPOPs!.
Mmm.. Access a Free Yahoo! Mail Account with Outlook Express follow these steps
Install YPOPs! and make sure it is running.
Open Outlook Express.
Select Tools Accounts... from the menu in Outlook Express.
Click Add and select Mail....
Type your name.
Click Next >.
Enter your Yahoo! Mail address ("abcd@yahoo.com", for example).
Click Next > again.
Make sure POP3 is selected under My incoming mail server is a ___ server..
Enter "localhost" under Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server:.
Type "localhost" under Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: as well because your actually connect to the ypop running on your machine.
Click Next >.
Type your Yahoo! Mail user name under Account name:
In this example, the user name is "abcd".
Enter your Yahoo! Mail password under Password:
Click Next >.
Click Finish. Thats all
Useful YPOPs! Options
you can make YPOPs! ignore messages in the Bulk Mail folder of your Yahoo! Mail account, for example, tell it not to mark downloaded messages as read or have YPOPs! put a copy of outgoing mail in your Yahoo! Mail Sent Items folder.
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