Just a friendly note: This subject deals with setting up POP accounts, that is, using a program like, Eudora, Outlook, Mozilla or Netscape Mail to access your web based email such as Yahoo or Hotmail.
My first email was @chalktv.com, a service that is no longer valid. I didn't even have the internet then. My only access was at the Public library her in Twillingate.
After that service ended I got one at Yahoo.ca, a different one than what I presently use. I dumped that later because I couldn't keep up with the spam mail. I was averaging up to 500 emails every time I checked it. I only got up the library once a week so that would account for this high number.
So I then got another through Yahoo.ca, but my relatives starting using MSN and wanted me to get connected, that meant getting another email at Hotmail.com.
When I first got my hotmail account, the storage rate and the minium attachement was pathetic compared to Yahoo. Its recently upped its ante but still I only keep it because of MSN Messenger.
But recently both Yahoo and Hotmail started changing their sites, they claim to give us better service, but in reality they just want to force us to go to their web sites so that they can shove ads in our faces - to be fair, I suppose, thats how they can afford to offer these services in the firstplace.
Anyway, there are ways around these issue. For example to access my email I use the Mozilla email client (I am also a Mozilla web browser fan), I have to use a program called Hotmail Popper from www.fitsoftware.com
To access my Yahoo account I have to use a similar program called Yahoo POPs! at http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net
Follow instructions for setting each one up. The Hotmail one is shareware. Which means you will have to pay for it after using it for a certain period of time. And you cannot use both at once. That means checking one account at a time.
This is how I did it. I open my email program, open Yahoo POPS!, download the emails, close Yahoo POPs!, then open Hotmail Popper, download the emails, and then wonder why I am going through all of this to download a bunch of junk.
Just a note about using Yahoo POPs!. When I first tried it I use to get an error. It would only download a few messages of the server and then stop. It wouldn't download all the emails and it wouldn't delete the emails from the server, so the same emails where being downloaded over and over.
I did some checking over the internet and at the homepage of the program, but could not find out how to fix it, although I did discover a number of people were getting the same RETR error. I went to my Yahoo account, signed in and noticed a recently added feature, "Spamguard", and it was activated. So I deactivated it. Problem solved. I let the Junk mail controls built into my Mozilla email program handle the spam.
update: If you don't want to fool around with the Yahoo POPs! program, there is an alternative that I recently switched to. You can still get emails through your email client without using a third party program. Just go to Yahoo and sign up to receive an occasional mailing from them.
Here are the basic instructions:
Go to Yahoo and sign into your account- www.yahoo.ca or www.yahoo.com
Click on the 'Help' button in the top right hand corner, usually under the search bar.
Under the heading 'Using My Account', click on 'POP (POP3) Access and Auto-Forwarding'.
Then under the heading 'POP Access', click on 'Can I use other email programs, such as Netscape, Eudora, or Outlook, to send and read my Yahoo!Mail?'
On the next page that comes up under the heading 'POP Access', click on 'Can I use other email programs, such as Netscape, Eudora, or Outlook, to send and read my Yahoo!Mail?', click on the link 'check your status on this page' (or just follow the instructions on the page).
Under the 'Sign-up' heading check 'YES contact with me occasionally....,' check any other interests, in the 'Select Frequency', I recommend chose 'Once a week'. Then finish.
And thats it. I recently dumped YPops! program in favour of this.
A small price to pay so my relatives can send me their jokes, riddles, IQ tests and chain letters that threaten my very existance in the universe. I tempted to put them on my spam list.