Free Pop Yahoo Mail

Actually this trick is a very old one, but it still works until now, and I've been using it for quite some time now. It just came to my mind to share it with those who haven't known about this yet.

Yes, it's true. You can easily pop your yahoo mails into your desktop based email client like Thunderbird or Windows Live Mail. You just need to change your time zone setting. Don't worry, your email address will be stay the same (endings with @yahoo.com, it won't change into @yahoo.co.id whatsoever). I didn't have much time to provide the visual steps, but I guarantee that the textual steps is comprehensive enough for you to follow.

Here are the steps: [These steps provided by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]

1. Open your web based Yahoo Mail (I use the All-New version).
2. At the right hand side of the window there is an Options menu, click on it and choose "More options...".
3. At the left hand pane you can see several menus, chose Accounts.
4. At the right hand pane click "Add or edit an account". A new window will be opened to add or edit an account.
5. Just choose the default one (the one titled Yahoo! Mail) and click Edit button.[These steps provided by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]
6. Now you have several options at the left side, choose "Account Information".
7. You'll be asked to enter your account information (password) again. Just enter it and press "Sign In".
8. Scroll down to "Account Settings" box, you'll find "Set language, site, and time zone" menu, just click it.
9. In the new setting, just choose Yahoo! Asia.
10. Press finished. Now, your time zone will be Yahoo! Asia. Don't worry, it won't change your time zone, you can adjust it under the time zone drop box. [These steps provided by Gandhi Manalu]
11. Now go back to window opened at step 3. You'll find "POP & Forwarding" menu there. Click it.
12. At the right side pane choose "Set up or edit POP & Forwarding". A new window will be opened.
13. Choose "Web & POP Access" to enable POP Access and don't forget to press the "Save" button at the left bottom side of the window.
14. Now, you can pop your Yahoo email freely into your desktop based email client application.

Depends on your email client application, you can setup a new Yahoo email account. Use this setting while configuring your email client: [These steps provided by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]

• Incoming mail (POP 3): pop.mail.yahoo.com. Port number: 995.
• Outgoing mail (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.com. Port number: 465.

And you're ready popping your Yahoo email, freely! Have fun.