TimCA wrote:
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Depends on WHERE is your free Yahoo Mail account. You didn't mention
that. Some regional domains for Yahoo still permit POP/SMTP access to
their mail servers for freebie accounts. Most don't, including the US
regional domain (yahoo.com). For those, you need to upgrade to a
premium account to gain access to their POP/SMTP mail hosts.
There are some workarounds but none are solid. YahooPOPs (YPOPs) runs
as a local POP-to-HTTP proxy on your host. Your e-mail client connects
to the YPOPS proxy using POP and YPOPS connects to Yahoo Mail using
HTTP. It scrapes the URLs and web pages to navigate around the site.
If Yahoo changes the web pages or URLs to them, YPOPS breaks and you
have to wait until its author gets around to fixing the code. Also, as
I recall, you need to select a screen-scraping "mode" that matches the
UI that you selected for Yahoo Mail (i.e., whether you have the old
classic UI, the new classic UI, or the Ajax-enabled enhanced UI). If
the mode configured in YPOPS doesn't match the one you configured in
your options for your Yahoo Mail account (for its webmail UI) then the
screens and URLs won't match and YPOPS breaks. You'll also find
YahooPOPs will go unresponsive. It is loaded, it was just working, but
then it goes unresponsive and you can't use it to retrieve e-mails
anymore from your freebie Yahoo.com account. You have to kill YPOPS and
reload it upon, voila, now it works again. When I used YPOPS, it was
about 2-3 times per week that I had to reload it after it went
unresponsive.
Another choice is the webmail add-on to Thunderbird but that gets into
another and different e-mail client. It also runs as a local protocol
conversion proxy, like YPOPS, so it is just as prone to break. FreePOPs
is another local protocol conversion proxy, like YPOPs, and should work
with Outlook but, again, it breaks with any changes at Yahoo Mail.
Trying to access free Yahoo Mail accounts (that don't include POP/SMTP
mail host access) using HTTP and screen-scraping methods isn't reliable.
If you don't have POP/SMTP access to their mail hosts now for your
freebie account then you'll have to pay for it if you want reliable
access to your e-mails.
http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/enhancements/mailplus