Access to mail yahoo account by the thunderbird

[sam tygier]

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

i am using thunderbird to read 2 yahoo accounts without paying any fees.

my setings are
POP
servername: pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk
port:995
username: my full yahoo email address
security: SSL

SMTP:
servername: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
port: 587
username: just my yahoo id
securtiy: TLS

sam