Well I will like to continue working the extensions, because the only pop free is Gmail, I have a very old hotmail (about 10 years) and I dont find the pop settings in NOWHERE. Yahoo always said that pop is for paying account. My Sincerely congradulations for the people that work with the extensions, continue working with TB because I dont like to be entering to all web pages to see my emails I have to many emais account (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, 4t, ChoiceCable, Centennial and others) and I like to read them all in one place and with the touch of a buttton, thats wy I LOVE TB and its WebMail Extensions. And if an extension do that (became free emails like pay ones) Thank Good for this genious people! AngelRicardo
On Feb 26, 4:51 am, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have, or create, a yahoo.com address and email account, it > doesn't matter where in the world you are, the rules are the same as for > USA, no free POP access. Accounts with a local domain such as > yahoo.co.uk and yahoo.au are subject to such local rules as Yahoo see > fit. I have two Yahoo email addresses,one .com and one .co.uk. The > .co.uk address has always had free POP access, but the .com never has. > Also Yahoo will not allow me to create a new .co.uk address with this > user name. So if you have a yahoo.com address where ever you are, you're > not going to get free POP access unless Yahoo decides to follow Hotmail > and Gmail and grant this. I'd agree with Alan, the pressure must be on > Yahoo to follow their competitors and allow free POP access. > > > > alanrf wrote: > > Before the decision to make Yahoo email access to POP/SMTP in the US a > > "for pay" site I do not think that Yahoo cared too much in which > > geographical area you created an account. So it may well be that your > > account is domiciled in the US Yahoo region and the rules (as the link > > you posted above) apply to you as they do to me. Yahoo has, in more > > recent times, realized that it needed to prevent US users from > > creating mail accounts outside the US to maximize its revenue stream > > so it will not, for example, allow me to create a free account with > > free POP/SMTP servers in Australia. > > > I suspect that you can create a new free account in Australia. You may > > just want to wait for the Webmail Author to fix this issue (as we have > > seen this talented provider do so many times) and see where Yahoo goes > > with the provisioning (again) of free POP/SMTP servers in the US. > > > On Feb 25, 7:34 pm, mark <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Feb 26, 9:39 am, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That is a US (as it says in the url) Yahoo web page. > > >> Try this link for Australia: > > >> http://help.yahoo.com/l/au/yahoo7/mail/yahoomail/pop/pop-35.html > > >> Tried it but it would not accept the port setting. > > >> With Server Name - pop.mail.yahoo.com.au and Port 995, the Default > >> remained 110 > > >> I checked this against the free Hotmail settings and the Default > >> changed when the Port was changed. > > >> The change would not take place even after a Windows reboot. When it > >> did not ask me for a password then I knew that it was not going to > >> work. Maybe it does work for Outlook but it certainly does not appear > >> to work for TB. > > >> So, for the moment, if there is a free Yahoo, it is not working for me. > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
