As far as I can tell, Yahoo still does not provide free POP3 support in the US. I've looked all over the Yahoo mail website and all references to POP are under the old Yahoo Plus product name. I can't find info that shows that the soon to be implemented "new" Yahoo Mail will provide free access to POP3 support.
That said, the webmail plugins have been used for years to gain access to web based email via POP when those mail services did not provide free POP access. Gmail is the notable exception, which has offered free POP support for years, but Yahoo and Hotmail have chosen to use POP email as income sources up to now. I can't speak to Hotmail since I've never used it, but Yahoo still does not seem to provide free POP support in the USA. On Jul 3, 9:41 am, VulcanTourist <[email protected]> wrote: > Since GMail, HotMail, and Yahoo already support POP3 delivery > internally, and accounts for those services can be configured as POP3 > in Thunderbird with the publicly available servers for each, exactly > when and why would these extensions ever be needed for those services > in particular? It seems that this adds an unnecessary level of > complexity, since HTTP is not an e-mail protocol and changes to how > the "Webmail" interfaces work could break these extensions, which > NEVER happens with POP3/SMTP. > > When are these actually needed?
