On Jun 28, 3:38 pm, Tario <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yahoo was the pain in the behind, but there is a trick to get native > POP3 on Yahoo. Just follow this > link:http://picobit.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/yahoo-mail-free-pop-access/ >
> > ~Tario > This worked for me! Scroll down to the updated instructions in the comment section. For your convenience, I cut and pasted here: Big Al permalink May 23, 2010 6:01 pm Tried this last night with an existing Yahoo account and IT WORKED. Tried it today with a new account that I just created and IT DIDN’T WORK. CONCLUSION: If you create a new Yahoo account and try to switch it to Yahoo Asia to get POP and forwarding abilities, you’re out of luck. But if you have an existing Yahoo account then you are “grandfathered” in. I’m not sure how long you have to have owned it–in other words, I don’t know when the cutoff date was for their no-POP-policy but the account I used successfully has been around since 1996. Anyway, for those having problems here are the easy steps: 1) Make sure you’re not trying to create a fresh Yahoo! account and attempt this hack, it won’t work (see above). 2) Sign In (you should be at your main mail page; if not, point your browser to mail.yahoo.com). 3) Click on OPTIONS in the upper right hand corner, then choose MAIL CLASSIC in the dropdown box. 4) You get a pop-up box to confirm that you want to switch to Yahoo Mail Classic. Click yes. 5) Again, click on OPTIONS in the upper right hand corner, then choose MAIL OPTIONS in the dropdown box. 6) You’ll be brought to a new screen. On the left hand side click on ACCOUNT INFORMATION. 7) Now you’re brought to a screen asking for your password. Enter it. 8) You’re now in your Account Info screen. Close to the bottom of the screen you will see “Account Settings” Underneath that you want to click on the option for “SET LANGUAGE, SITE AND TIME ZONE” 9) Once again you are brought to a new screen. Next to where it says “Regional Site and Language” is a dropdown box. Find and select “YAHOO! ASIA”. As long as you’re here you may also want to make sure that your time zone is correct. 10) Click Save 11) Go back to the main Yahoo mail screen (easiest way to do this is to point your browser to mail.yahoo.com) 12) Click on OPTIONS in the upper right hand corner, then choose MAIL OPTIONS in the dropdown box. 13) You’ll be brought to the same screen you were in step 6 but now on the left hand side you will see an option for “POP & FORWARDING” That’s pretty much it. Go ahead and set up your POP.
