Today, I am going to tell on how to get Free POP3 access for your Yahoo Mail account.
What is POP3?
POST OFFICE PROTOCOL. More on it @ Wiki.
If your email provider provides free POP3 service, you need not login to the account to check your mails. You can use email clients like Microsoft Outlook, Incredimail and many others on your PC.
You just have to configure your client to access your mail that’s all! As soon as you have a new mail in your Inbox, the client will download the mail for you. So you need not login to your Inbox for newer mails.
Gmail provides free POP3 access. But Yahoo doesn’t, it charges for the service. But no worries, there is way to get POP3 access to your Yahoo Mail without any charge.
I am using this from last 2 years or so. Download Yahoo Pops!
“It is called YPOPs!. “YPOPs! is an application that provides POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail.”
How do we do it you ask? Well, this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at one end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo!.
YPOPs! was inspired by a Perl script called FetchYahoo written by Ravi Ramkissoon. YPOPs! is available on the Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac platforms.“
Download it and then you can find the link to Configuring Mail Clients in that site on the left side, that will tell you the steps to configure yahoo pops and your email client(it can be outlook, incredimail or any other clients).
Try it out. It will be fascinating to see your yahoo mails arriving on your PC in your email client.
You can even send mails using yahoo without actually accessing yahoo mail.
Do check it out and share with friends.
Yahoo Pops! | Incredimail
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Anshul Agrawal (Who am I?) You don’t need a workaround anymore.
http://popfwd.mail.yahoo.com/p.....=&.bm=
But anyways, I am waiting for the day I have IMAP access to Yahoo Mail.
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If we use yahoopops service we can get POP3 service free of cost 
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Anshul Agrawal (Who am I?) I always had the Yahoo POP access… to get it you just need to change your content preference settings at http://account.yahoo.com. On this page, change your Preferred Content to “English India” and you will have POP access. This thing never changed and is there from past 5 years.
However, a couple of months ago even the US / UK residents can type in same settings and use the service. I TRIED IT A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO WITH CONTENT SET TO “US ENGLISH”. I am able to receive mails and also send mails without any hassle or workaround.
That was the POP story, to get the IMAP access to your account you need to connect your coimputer to internet through your mobile’s GPRS connection. There are some server settings which are IP restricted and will work only on TCP connections coming from a certain IPs which belong to cellphone vendors.
I prefer the IMAP access but its kind of slllllloooowww to access the net using my cellphone. The workaround that one is to use the gmail (I personally don’t do that, but just in case). What you can do is access your YMail account through GMail and then have access to all mails in there using the IMAP.
Shorter Version
1. Yahoo offers POP to all users, in all countries, without any Premium charges (as of now)
2. Yahoo does offer an IMAP service but is restricted only to cellphone users using GPRS. (Undocumented)
3. For real despo users, GMAIL can be used to access Yahoo account through near IMAP way.
Best
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