How to access Yahoo! Mail using POP3 for free
Posted on June 25, 2009 at 5:54 am
By default, you cannot access your Yahoo! Mail using POP3 unless you purchase the Yahoo! Mail Plus plan, which costs $20 a year. That’s not really a lot of money, but for those people who feel it should be completely free (like Gmail), here’s how to get around it.
Note that Yahoo! Mail Plus also has additional benefits other than POP3 access, which Gmail might not have, such as a 20MB limit for attachments, Email Forwarding, no ads on your mail interface, and no promotional taglines on outgoing messages.
YPOPs! is a nifty little program that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail for free! This is cool because it means you can use Outlook XP, Outlook 2003, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc to connect to your Yahoo! Mail account and download your email.
Using this program, you can also send emails from your local client without ever having to log into Yahoo! Mail. So how does it work actually? Basically, it fakes out Yahoo by being a middleman of sorts.
One the local side, it provides a POP3 server interface to talk to Outlook, etc and on the other side it talks to Yahoo! Mail by using normal HTTP protocol. The program is not a violation of Yahoo! Mail TOS and is not illegal.
Once you download and install the program, you’ll see a small icon in your taskbar with a mail icon. You can double-click on it to bring up the options.
Before we get into the options, here’s how to setup your email client to start downloading emails from Yahoo! Mail using POP3 in Outlook 2003.
Step 1: Go to Tools, Email Accounts and choose Add a new email account.
Step 2: Select POP3 as the Server Type and click Next.
Step 3: Next type in your name and entire Yahoo! email address under the User Information section. Enter your Yahoo! login ID and password under Logon Information.
Step 4: For both Incoming mail server and Outgoing mail server, enter 127.0.0.1 as shown above.
Step 5: Next click on More Settings and choose the Advanced tab. Increase the Server Timeout value to Long.
Step 6: Now click on the Outgoing Server tab and choose My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. Also, select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
That’s it, now you should be able to download your email. If you have any issues or use a different client, check out the full FAQ section here that shows you how to configure up to seventeen different email clients, including Eudora, Pegasus, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and more.
In the Settings mentioned above, you can configure options like marking messages as unread on the Yahoo! Mail server, which folders to download emails from, saving sent email in the Yahoo! Mail Sent Items folder, and more.
Overall, it’ll save you a bit of money and it’s useful if you simply want to backup all your Yahoo! email to your local computer. Enjoy!
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A nice post..thanks !
Hello,
I have POP3 access to my Yahoo! Mail (french version) for $0 by configuring my email account.
Isn’t the case for you ?
Thanks.
M.Z. Soufi
How can I forward Yahoo mail for free?
You can get a more robust program called FreePOPS, which will work on Netzero- and other- web only email accounts as well. Just an FYI.
Wrong, Yahoo gives POP for free now, so this software is completely unecessary now.
Neat trick. I’ve had a Yahoo email account for years, but I never felt I should have to pay to use the POP mail feature as they charge. So I’ve had to access their very-heavily-ad-burdened website to access my Yahoo email account. I’ll have to give this a try. Hopefully Yahoo won’t catch onto this trick right-away and find a way to block it. Thanks for sharing!
How to use Windows mail in vista for yahoo pop settings ?? I am trying to download my yahoo mail in my windows mail program but not working. Can anyone help me?
I have microsoft outlook express 6 and I can’t seem to set up my yahoo pop3 forwarding. The directions given above do not follow the exact setup/wizard for my outlook express. when trying to set up the account it does not offer the same options as the above directions state. SOMEONE HELP!!!
good idea….just cant get it to work…any other ideas?
I noticed that on my iPhone, I can enter my Yahoo credentials and get access to my Yahoo! email, so what does the iPhone do that I can’t do in Outlook?
i tried to install YPOPs and tried to synchronize it with my Outlook but can’t seem to work. any ideas?
ypops don’t work anymore… Asia don’t work any more in fact i haven’t found a way to get free pop3 access using yahoo i just switched to Gmail & Live Mail. They BOTH offer free Pop3 Access. Yahoo Sucks
id rather use it but until i find away around it i guess their competitors will have my business. if someone does figure out a way please email me @ Saiurie@live.com id appreciate it, thanks a lot, Saiurie De’Loncrent
it’s still working greatly tested on 28.april.2010.
- 1st go to Yahoo! Account info
- then scroll down and find “Account Setting”,
- then click on “Set language, site, time zone”, new page will opened
- on “Regional Site and Language:” select “Yahoo! Asia”
- click on [Save] and accept the Term & condition
Now, go to your yahoo!Mail..
- click on “options’ and the option page will shown.
- now, you can see the “POP & forwarding” option
- click on it, and then click on “setup or edit POP & Forwarding” on the right..
- in the new page, enable the “Web & POP Access [POP Settings]“, and click on [SAVE]
Your done..
you can now access your yahoo account by pop.mail.yahoo.com
After succeed the POP setting,
You can change the regional setting back to Yahoo!US or other regional as you like..
the POP setting will remain available..
Good luck…
I have configured my yahoo mail in outlook express. But when I open yahoo mail, I noticed that all messages are downloaded in outlook. Is there a way to get my messages back in yahoo???
h3n7a1: Just tried it and there was no “POP & forwarding” option. Perhaps Yahoo closed this backdoor.
h3n7a1 was COMPETELY right! Just follow his instruction, it works!
h3n7a1 Great advice! I tried tat and it works for my Windows Live!
ive tried to do everything…same prob…i already have ypops on the system..still cant access free yahoomail on my outlook 2003…
Odd. I am using Ypops on Outlook express 6. I can receive email from my yahoo account but am getting several errors when I send. The errors are below. I’ve followed the instructions and changed my Yahoo setting to Yahoo Asia. Any ideas?
The server does not support an SSL connection. Account: ‘plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com’, Server: ‘plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com’, Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: ’250 8BITMIME’, Port: 587, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 250, Error Number: 0x800CCC7D
The connection to the server has failed. Account: ’127.0.0.1′, Server: ’127.0.0.1′, Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E
Try to change SMTP port to 587 if you can only receive email, but cannot send, from Outlook.
It does not work. I followed the directions to a T and wouldnt work for me.
wow i just tried this on my iphone and it worked. I did follow h3n7a1’s instructions. Thank you. Very helpful.