hi i want to get retrive my emails from yahoomail.com from my email client thunderbird or outlook. i guess i would have to connect to yahoomail's smtp server? how do i connect to yahoo's smtp server? or is there another way. is there a paid serveice or something. help me out?
The Thunderbird Tutorial tells you how to set up your POP3, SMTP settings. However before this will work for yahoo, you need to set up your account to allow the client access. This is done by subscribing to their marketing (No such thing as a free lunch ) rubbish. You can navigate to this via:
Login -> Mail Options -> Pop Access and Forwarding -> Subscribe.
For your settings have a look at the link "View POP Settings" under the "POP Access & Forwarding" page. You should see something like this:
Server Settings Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk Or your ISP's SMTP server address [What's this?] Account Name/Username: ZootsAllures Email address: ZootsAllures@yahoo.co.uk Password: Your Yahoo! Mail password
Jesse, I've done this for free - however I am in the UK. Maybe it is different for people with USA accounts.