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thunderbird

Started by andy777 , Aug 22 2007 08:10 AM

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andy777

Posted 22 August 2007 - 08:10 AM

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I am unabled to access my yahoo acc via thunderbird, says that serve mail.yahoo.com timed out can anyone help? i user ssl connection, serve name mail.yahoo.com. gmail doesnt work either. pop.gmail.com .when i click on gmail inbox , says welcome to thunderbird.............

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Edited by andy777, 22 August 2007 - 08:17 AM.

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Neil Jones

Posted 22 August 2007 - 02:45 PM

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Need to have specified that you want to use POP access for your Yahoo account before you can get to it with something like Thunderbird. Same thing applies for GMail.

The ability to access Yahoo! Mail via a POP3 email client (such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird) is only available to customers of the premium Yahoo! Mail Plus service. If you have a free Yahoo account it isn't going to happen basically, as Yahoo changed this years ago.

Gmail, you need to log in and tell it you want to use POP3 access before you can use it. Log in and go to Settings -> Forwarding and POP.

Edited by Neil Jones, 22 August 2007 - 02:45 PM.