Using e-mail client to check for new emails is so much easier and convenient without the need of opening your browser, logging in to website, typing in your username and password, and waiting for the whole interface to be loaded.
With e-mail client, you can skip all the process above and still able to read and send email just by opening your configured e-mail client.
Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service oÂn 24th April, 2002. So it’s no longer possible using any e-mail client such as Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook to check your Yahoo! e-mails.
Is there anyway to continue using any e-mail client such as Outlook Express to read and send Yahoo! email eventhough this free service has been disabled by Yahoo!?
Fortunately, YES! Continue reading to find out how…
The YPOPs! team consisting of 6 person has created a free software that acts as a middleman between your e-mail client and the Yahoo! POP3 service. Well, this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at oÂne end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo! In short, YPOPs! is an application that provides POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail. It is available oÂn the Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac platforms.
Yahoo Mail Beta is not supported by YPOPs! You must switch back to the normal old Yahoo Mail interface to use YPOPs! otherwise you’ll get an error message window like the one below.
If you’ve made up your mind to use e-mail client to check your Yahoo! e-mails, it doesn’t make a different if you’re using the Yahoo old or the new beta.
To switch from the new Yahoo Mail Beta to the the old interface, just follow the instructions below.
1. Sign in to your Yahoo! email at http://mail.yahoo.com/
2. At the top of your Yahoo! email, you’ll see a note saying “Welcome, yourname”. You’ll see a “Switch Back” link just beside it.
3. After clicking on the Switch Back link, you’ll be prompted to confirm switching back to your old original Yahoo! Mail. Click “Switch Back” button again.
An important note that you should know is you can’t revert back to the new Yahoo Mail Beta once you’ve done a switch before.
So make sure you’ve really made up your mind to use YPOPs! with email client to send and receive Yahoo Mail in future.
After downloading and installing YPOPs!, by default you don’t need to configure anything. The default configurations looks fine. All you need to configure is your email client’s POP3 and SMTP address which is 127.0.0.1
For complete tutorial on email client configuration, please refer from this link.