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RDrebsky6868

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Is it possible to use a yahoo account on Mail and if it is how does one go by setting it up.
 

DXoverDY

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RDrebsky6868 said:
Is it possible to use a yahoo account on Mail and if it is how does one go by setting it up.

yes, if you pay for the premium subscription to get POP access. You can't get it with the free account though. Sorry.
 

homerjward

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DXoverDY said:
yes, if you pay for the premium subscription to get POP access. You can't get it with the free account though. Sorry.
my yahoo.co.uk and yahoo.fr accounts both work fine in mail on panther. my only us yahoo account is from my isp (sbc yahoo) so idk about that
 

DXoverDY

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homerjward said:
my yahoo.co.uk and yahoo.fr accounts both work fine in mail on panther. my only us yahoo account is from my isp (sbc yahoo) so idk about that

it may be different for other countries. and the ISP one is paid for obviously through your dsl connection, what isp doesn't come with pop? :rolleyes:

it says right in the yahoo stuff you need to pay to get pop access

http://billing.mail.yahoo.com/bm/Upgrades

Get more control and more capacity. Mail Plus includes personalized spam filtering with SpamGuard Plus, no graphical ads, 200 blocked addresses, POP access, 20MB message size, virtually unlimited storage – 2GB – and more.

for $19.95/yr

Zoowatch said:
does Hotmail work with Mail 2.0??

using the httpmail plugin yes i believe so.

http://httpmail.sourceforge.net/
 
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