Fetching POP3 Mails in Yahoo! Mail
Who could actually resist Yahoo! mail’s unlimited storage? You could have numerous number of mails with attachments and not worry about the emails sent to you ever bouncing back to the sender. It’s no wonder why some people would use yahoo mail to consolidate their email addresses.
It’s not a very well-known feature but like in gmail, you could send emails using your other email addresses (as long as you can verify it, of course) and also fetch your pop3 mails. It’s very simple, you just have to do the following.
In your yahoo account, whether it’s classic or the new skin, go to your mail options. You will be brought to different options to manage your mails. Now you have to select “Accounts”, and from there, click on add or edit an account.
A new window will open that will bring you to a page where you can add, delete or edit the accounts that are attached to your email address, if you have none yet, it will look like the one below.
Click on add so you can start typing in the information needed such as the label, email address, and username, password and pop3 address.
Unlike in Gmail where you can determine whether what you’re setting up is just so you could send an email using that address or you want to fetch your mails from your pop server Yahoo can set it up for you in one step.
In this screen, you can put your pop3 server info, username and password so you could get your mails from the server to your yahoo mail account. However, this is only optional. If you did not put anything in it, you won’t be getting your mails (naturally) but you can send mails using that address.
To make sure that the users does not add random email addresses to their accounts, you have to confirm your email address so you could start using it. You can click on the link that yahoo will be sending you or you can copy the confirm code in the mail and paste it in the form show above. After that, you can enjoy using your yahoo mail and you don’t have to worry about losing mails again!
Tags: email, productivity, yahoo!
