August 2003
Beginner
416 pages
12h 47m
English
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Retrieve Web-Based Email with Your Email Software
There’s no longer a need for Hotmail and Yahoo! mail users to be forced to abandon their email software when checking their email. This hack lets you use your email client to gather web-based email from them.
I have more email accounts than any person has any right to. In addition to my normal POP3-based email accounts, I have web-based accounts on Yahoo! and Hotmail. This means that there’s no apparent way to get all my email in one location; I use Outlook for POP3-based email and the Web for Yahoo! and Hotmail. It also means that I can never have all my email on my hard disk, because Yahoo! and Hotmail store it on the Web. But I like to keep all my outgoing and incoming email in one location. What to do?
I’ve found two free add-ins that let you use your normal email program with Yahoo! mail and HotMail, whether it’s Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, or any other. YahooPOPs! lets you send and receive Yahoo! email, and Hotmail Popper does the same for Hotmail.
Getting Yahoo! Mail with YahooPOPs!
Several years ago, you had the free option of getting your Yahoo! mail using Yahoo! POP mail server. No longer. Today, if you want to do that directly from Yahoo!, you’ll have to pay a fee.
But with the simple-to-set-up YahooPOPs! (http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net), you can treat Yahoo! like any other mail server and get email from it without having to pay. It’s open source software that has a POP3 interface on one end to talk to your email ...
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I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.