yahoo pop service for evolution

Sam Tygier samtygier at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jun 4 20:17:06 UTC 2005


ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 09:32 +0100, Sam Tygier wrote:
> 
>>do really need to do this?
>>
>>if you enable pop on the mail.yahoo.com site, then you can get it with
>>the builting pop in evolution/thunderbird.
>>
>>my settings in thunderbird are
>>
>>server pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk 110
>>username samtygier
>>outgoing server smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk 25
>>
>>i am pretty sure you need to log in and turn on pop though.
>>
>>sam
>>
> 
> Free “Yahoo! Mail” accounts don't have access to the POP3 services and
> can be checked only through their web site.  This is why such
> applications (like “fetchyahoo”) exist.
> 
> Ziyad.
> 

mine is definatly a free (as in beer) account. they occationally send me adverts though. i use the account for pop and smtp, and occation the webbased if i am on another computer.

a look at the heads of this mail should show thats it has gone through the yahoo smtp

sam

	
	
		
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