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Yahoo! Hacks
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Yahoo! Hacks

by Paul Bausch
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Read Yahoo! Mail in Your Preferred Email Client

The standard way to read Yahoo! Mail is with a web browser, but some freely available software called YPOPs! can deliver your Yahoo! Mail to your favorite email client.

Most of us have several email accounts on several systems: one for personal email, two or three for work, and maybe even a Yahoo! Mail account on the side. Most of these accounts are read with Post Office Protocol (POP) email clients such as Outlook Express, Eudora, Thunder bird, or Mac’s Mail. But Yahoo! Mail is designed to be read through a web browser. This is handy when you’re away from your standard computer, but it can be a hassle when you’re on your home machine. To read all of your mail and get completely caught up, you need to open both your email client and a web browser for Yahoo! Mail.

One way to bring all of your email together is to add your standard POP accounts to Yahoo! Mail [Hack #54] so that you can read everything through a web browser.(This is another perk when you’re on the road.) But if you’re perfectly happy with your email client, there are also ways to route your Yahoo! Mail there.

The most direct route is by upgrading your Yahoo! Mail account to Yahoo! Mail Plus. For an annual fee of $20 (at the time of this writing), Yahoo! Mail Plus adds various features to your account, including direct POP Access. With the upgrade, you’ll be able to retrieve your Yahoo! Mail in the same way that you get mail from your other accounts.

Another route is via ...

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