How do I get Outlook 2003 to work with a yahoo free subscription? I think
I need to use the HTTP style, right? Someone please give me a guide line or
a step-by-step instruvtion.

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/serv...line.htm#yahoo

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"Jester9044" wrote in message
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How do I get Outlook 2003 to work with a yahoo free subscription? I
think
I need to use the HTTP style, right? Someone please give me a guide line
or
a step-by-step instruvtion.

"Jester9044" wrote in message
...
How do I get Outlook 2003 to work with a yahoo free subscription? I
think
I need to use the HTTP style, right? Someone please give me a guide line
or
a step-by-step instruvtion.


HTTPmail in Outlook or Outlook Express uses a scripting language written by
Microsoft and mostly only supported in Microsoft's e-mail clients. It's
called WebDAV. So when you create an HTTPmail account in Outlook [Express],
it will use WebDAV to communicate with the mail server. Well, only
Microsoft uses WebDAV (for its Hotmail service). There is no universal or
standard protocol to communicate with everyone's particular implementation
of webmail (via HTTP using a browser). You cannot define an HTTPmail
account in Outlook [Express] and have it connect to anything other than
Hotmail.

You can pay Yahoo to get access to their POP3 and SMTP servers. Or you can
use an HTTP-to-POP3 protocol converter proxy, like YahooPOPs, to connect
your POP3 e-mail client to the HTTP webmail interface for Yahoo. YahooPOPs
is okay and I continue to use it but understand that the setup will not be
as reliable as connecting to a POP3 mail server. You might end up getting
errors when trying to send mails through it or find that you aren't
retrieving any mails through it. I have to kill and restart it about once
per week. YahooPOPs not only supports HTTP-to-POP3 protocol conversion but
also supports HTTP-to-SMTP protocol conversion. That means YahooPOPs can
act like an SMTP server to which you can connect to send your outbound mails
which then passes them off to Yahoo Mail. However, the freebie accounts at
Yahoo will append their spam signature onto the end of your outbound mails
sent using their free service. That makes your mails look amateurish.
Imagine your lack of respect for a restaurant that brings the plate of food
your ordered to your table but it is wrapped with a banner advertising the
brand of dishwasher that the restaurant uses. Every one of your outbound
mails sent through a Yahoo free account is a bit spammy because of this
advertising append onto it. While you can yank using POP3 from Yahoo's HTTP
webmail interface, you may still want to configure outbound mails to go
through your ISP's SMTP server. Sending through your ISP's e-mail server
also eliminates spam filters or rules that will block or auto-delete any
mails originating from the Yahoo domain.

http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net

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