I'm in the UK, but my yahoo.com email account was subject to the same
conditions as a USA account. I looked this morning at the options on the
website, and, yes, I do have the option of POPing spam. In fact there
are three options, "Don't POP spam", "Include spam messages" and
"Include spam messages and add [bulk] as a prefix to the subject line".
PS yahoo.co.uk accounts have long had free POP access, but yahoo!
wouldn't let me set up a .co.uk account with the same user name as the
.com account.
On 04/07/2011 07:39, alanrf wrote:
Chris,
you always seem to beat me to the send button. Well this weekend I
will claim to be in laid-back mode since it is a holiday weekend where
I live.
Of course I agree with your comments with one caveat. Please read my
comments and let me know your experience. As I mentioned I find that,
even with a US location for my free Yahoo account, I now find that I
have POP options available to me. Not only that - within the POP
options is the ability to have the contents of the Junk mail folder
included in the download of the POP mail Inbox. Is that available in
your geographical location?
Regards,
Alan
On Jul 3, 11:00 pm, Chris Clifton<[email protected]> wrote:
One reason that no-one else has mentioned. Some workplace IT systems
block access to the normal POP ports on any servers other than the
companies own mail servers. If you want to read your Hotmail or Yahoo!
mail at work you either have to use the websites or the extensions.
On 03/07/2011 15:41, VulcanTourist 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?
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