Access to mail yahoo account by the thunderbird

[Preston Hagar]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM,  <admhardsoft at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hi I wanna configurate the email client thunderbird for get my email from ny yahoo account, how can I do that? I make a ping to pop.mail.yahoo.com and work but when I put in the email client, the email client show an error about he the server pop3 isn't reach.
> Somebody can help me
> Thanks

When you have a question for the list, start a new email and address
it to ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com.  It creates confusion when there
are emails from other threads in your emails.

About accessing yahoo from Thunderbird, do you have Yahoo mail plus
(i.e. do you pay anything for your yahoo mail)?  As far as I have
known, Yahoo doesn't offer free pop or imap access, it is only for
their paid yahoo mail plus customers:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/pop/pop-35.html;_ylt=AoU8FUWgwRMzzkvKQ4f6o1IKzyN4

I think it is about $20 USD a year.  If you do upgrade, then that link
above also has a link on its page to Mozilla Thunderbird which you can
click and it should walk you through setting up Thunderbird (it is
basically the same for Windows and Linux).

As a side note, gmail (Google Mail) offers free pop and imap access,
so you might think of switching over.


Preston