POP3 in Yahoo Mail

Using Microsoft Outlook 2007
For all Yahoo mail users who do not have yahoo pop3 option in their mail settings, you can now access your mail without a Yahoo Plus account.There is no software involved.

Setting up Your Account:
  • Sign in to Yahoo mail
  • Go to Mail Options > Account Information > Enter your password again
  • You will be in Account Information Page, here change your Preferred content to Yahoo Asia! by clicking on the edit on the right corner.ya
  • Now Click on the Preferred content and change it to Yahoo Asia.as

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  • Save all Changes.
  • Sign Out & Sign In Again.
  • If everything has been done correctly you should see Yahoo! Asia  on the top left corner of your screen.
  • Go to Mail Options.You will now have a "POP3 Access and Forwarding" Click on 'Set up or edit POP & Forwarding'
  • Enable by Ticking Web & POP Access.
  • Save.
Setting up the Email Client:
If you are using Outlook 2007 you can use the automatic settings by just typing in your username and password and letting outlook do the rest.(This Doesn't always work)

Manual Settings:
Typical Settings:
incoming server: pop.mail.yahoo.com
outgoing server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Advanced Settings:
Under outgoing server, the first box is checked. and use same settings as my incoming server.
Use port 995 and check the box, for SSL connection. second port is 465, and select SSL encryption.

Note:
Your yahoo account is on pop for the first time so, your email client will download all the thousands of emails in your yahoo mail folders ie. read ,unread,sent etc.

You can log in to your account from yahoo.com also, asia.yahoo.com is not necessary.
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