Yahoo POP Mail Settings pop.mail.yahoo.com

[n00b]

If anyone needs generic yahoo pop mail settings, I found a link for setting up POP mail in Outlook.

Yahoo POP Mail Help

I've been having a little difficulty in getting the default email client bundled with PC-BSD to talk with yahoo's mail servers though so if anyone has already figured out the trick to get the default mail client to work and could post whatever that is, it would be great!

It seems to want to default to "PLAIN" instead of "LOGIN" and I've tried both with no success yet.

Anyone know if paying yahoo $20 for mail plus is required to use POP mail with an email client? Maybe that's the problem.

I spent a few days messing around with getting PC-BSD installed on a Dell Laptop running Windows XP using virtual box, and finally got an install with wireless working after switching from Microsoft virtual machine to Oracle Virtual Box (like in the PC-BSD install info and allocating a large enough virtual hard drive. Ihave most things working correctly except I don't seem to be reading a USB drive for some reason that I haven't looked into.

Install seemed to be pretty easy but getting my wireless working was a bit tricky until I installed Virtual Box.

From what I have seen so far, this is a really great operating system and if I can get everything working ok, I may very well finally have found a replacement OS to Windows XP in PC-BSD.

Sweet!

[dralex]

If you want anything beyond a web e-mail client for Yahoo, say Thunderbird access, then yes you do have to pay money for that service. I don't know the price. I do know that you cannot use Thunderbird with Yahoo without a fee.

You should be able to go to the Yahoo site and query for Yahoo mail to get the necessary information, ie. fees and 'stuff' for that service.

[purgatori]

If you want a free mail service that also provides free POP access, then I'd recommend Gmail (also allows SMTP access), or SDF.

[n00b]

Thanks Dan.

I think it's $19.95 a year for "Yahoo +"