YPops!

Someone once asked me how to configure Outlook to accept Yahoo! email messages. You see, unlike Google mail, Yahoo! doesn't allow POP3 access, so integrating it into Outlook is no easy task. Thanks to Google, I found a software that helps you achieve this. One more thing, it is open source. In these days of Blackberry, it might not seem like much, but it is useful nevertheless.

YPops!

YPops! is an application that provides POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail. It is available on the Linux, Mac, Solaris, and Windows platforms.

Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service on 24 April, 2002. This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, and others, to download email from Yahoo! accounts.

How do we do it, you ask? Well, this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at one end to talk to email clients, and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other, which allows it to talk to Yahoo!

Using YPops!

First things first; download the application. It is free software (and I believe it is open source as well, since it can be found at Source Forge too).

1. Install YPops application. It will sit on the system tray in Windows.

2. Next, you will have to configure Yahoo mail account into your Outlook Express e-mail client.

3. Open your Outlook Express e-mail client. Click on Tools - Accounts. Click the Add button, select Mail from the pop up.

4. In the Display name text box, please type your full name or whatever you would like people to see in the ‘From' field and click Next.

5. Enter your Yahoo e-mail address and click Next. Select POP3 as ‘My incoming mail server.'

6. Type ‘localhost' as your Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server and type ‘localhost' as the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server and click Next.

7. In the Account name field, type your full Yahoo! e-mail address (accountname@yahoo.com). In the Password field, enter your Yahoo! password. If you do not want to type your password every time you check your mail, please tick the Remember password box and click Next. Then click Finish.

8. Now, in the Internet Accounts window, click on the new account named local host and click Properties. Select ‘Servers' tab, and in the bottom tick the checkbox of ‘My server requires authentication' and click Settings button.

9. Select ‘Log on using' and enter your Yahoo Mail address as the Account name and your Yahoo Mail password as the password. Next, select the ‘Advanced' tab and increase the Server Timeout to ‘Long' (5 minutes).

10. Click OK to close.

Now, you can receive your Yahoo! mails in Outlook. If you would like to receive Yahoo mails separately, either use mail rules to move Yahoo mails to one folder or Add new Identity in Outlook Express and repeat the above procedure on the new account.

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