Comments on: Get Your Yahoo! Mail in Mozilla Thunderbird for Free

By: CULTurgut

CULTurgut — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:40:06 +0000

@Bijan Soleymani

YOU SIR RULE, it’s working great with the special version of thunderbird

BtW-The geek rule, too =D

By: Anshul

Anshul — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:50:11 +0000

Splendid peice of information that really helped… Thanxx!!!

By: Bijan Soleymani

Bijan Soleymani — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:24:26 +0000

You can use IMAP directly instead of through YPOPs. You need a special version of thunderbird:
http://www.crasseux.com/linux/.....taller.exe

http://www.crasseux.com/linux/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Mail#Free_IMAP_and_SMTPs_access

incoming server: imap.mail.yahoo.com (IMAP port 143)
outgoing server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com (SMTP SSL port 465)
username: username@yahoo.com
password: same as yahoo webmai

you can also use IMAPs (IMAP with SSL)
incoming server: imap.next.mail.yahoo.com (IMAP enable SSL port 993)l
certificate does not match hostname so you have to accept manually

By: This Is Awesome

This Is Awesome — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:57:50 +0000

P.S. I should add that I had to turn off my anti-virus entirely for Ypops to work; pausing email scanning didn’t cut it. Since I’m only using Ypops for infrequent backups for known-clean (to me, anyway) emails, I’m okay with that, but I sure wouldn’t leave it off for any length of time.

I suppose I could have changed the port like the help file said but I was too lazy.

By: This is awesome

This is awesome — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:20:11 +0000

This is exactly what I have been looking for, like, forever. Thank you so much. Works like a charm.

P.S. Your instructions were perfect for Outlook; same questions, different interface. Thanks again!

By: Anjang

Anjang — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:04:21 +0000

Thank you for the tutor.

By: Kirtan

Kirtan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:59:03 +0000

Thank you. Its working fine…

By: d��s

d��s — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:18:07 +0000

If you still can’t get message from yahoo trying to use Ypops ver. 0.9.7.3 in previous version Thunderbird doesn’t work. In this version everything is OK.

By: Gladiator

Gladiator — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:02:44 +0000

Hi, I jus want to know how to create a new account in Thunderbird( same is the case for Outlook 2007),
coz it is askimg for the Incoming mail server and outgoing server etc..
i donno these details, can anyone tell me where to get the server details and all,
any answer related will be seriously apprecitaed..

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:44:11 +0000

It’s not always this simple, I kept getting a retrieval message and this is the fix for it.

http://email.about.com/od/yaho.....l_yaho.htm

The problem being yahoo must be changing their settings to combat people getting webmail for free. This fix routes your yahoo mail through izymail (it’s free) your email program pulls your mail from izymail instead. After the free sign up you change your ingoing and outgoing email settings in Thunderbird. Ypops remains the same.