Let me just confirm that this account change does have the benefit of providing pure POP/SMTP connectivity for standard US based Yahoo accounts.
I confess that due to the greater benefits on the SMTP side I am using it (I can send embedded images). Because I want the benefits of being able to access more than just the Inbox on the POP side I continue to use the Webmail Yahoo add-on to receive mail and I thank the Webmail Author for this wonderful service. On Jun 29, 11:49 am, BWood <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
