Free Yahoo! Mail Account with Outlook Express

Outlook Express Tip

If you subscribe to Yahoo! Mail Plus, you can download messages received at your Yahoo! Mail account to any email program using POP. If you do not, you cannot.

At least not directly. A number of smart tools can translate your web-based Yahoo! Mail account into a POP account Outlook Express understands. One of the smartest of these tools is YPOPs!.

Access a Free Yahoo! Mail Account with Outlook Express

To access a free Yahoo! Mail account with Outlook Express:

• ›› Step by Step Screenshot Walkthrough

• Install YPOPs! and make sure it is running.
• Open Outlook Express.
• Select Tools | Accounts… from the menu in Outlook Express.
• Click Add and select Mail….
• Type your name.
• Click Next>.
• Enter your Yahoo! Mail address (“hmmzl34@yahoo.com”, for example).
• Click Next> again.
• Make sure POP3 is selected under My incoming mail server is a ___ server..
• Enter “localhost” under Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server:.
• Type “localhost” under Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: as well.
• Click Next>.
• Type your Yahoo! Mail user name under Account name:.
  • The user name is your Yahoo! Mail address sans “@yahoo.com”. In this example, the user name is “hmmzl34″.
• Enter your Yahoo! Mail password under Password:.
• Click Next>.
• Click Finish.
• Highlight localhost in the Internet Accounts window.
• Click Properties.
• Type “Yahoo! Mail” under Mail Account.
• Click OK.
• Click Close.

Useful YPOPs! Options

I recommend you also double-click the YPOPs! system tray icon to change a number of useful settings. You can make YPOPs! ignore messages in the Bulk Mail folder of your Yahoo! Mail account, for example, tell it not to mark downloaded messages as read or have YPOPs! put a copy of outgoing mail in your Yahoo! Mail Sent Items folder.

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