YPOPs! and Outlook Express 6

Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:45

Select "Accounts..." from the "Tools" menu. Click "Add" button and select "Mail...". Enter your name and click "Next". Enter your email address and click "Next". Set "My incoming mail server is a" to POP3 Set "Incoming (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) mail server" to "127.0.0.1". Set "Outgoing (SMTP) mail server" to "127.0.0.1" and click "Next". (Verify that SMTP is enabled in YPOPs.) Set "Account name:" to your Yahoo! login. Set "Password:" to you Yahoo! password and hit "Next". Hit "Finish". Click on new account named "127.0.0.1" and hit "Properties". Rename account to "YPOPs" or something nice. Select "Servers" tab. Check "My server requires authentication". Select "Advanced" tab. Change "Server Timeouts" to Long - 5 minutes. You may wish to select "Leave a copy of messages on server". This way the messages will not be deleted from Yahoo! when you download them. You may wish to select "Remove from server when deleted from 'Deleted Items'". This way when you delete a message in OE and empty the trash it's deleted from Yahoo! as well.