YahooPOPs! Guide

YahooPOPs! is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 and SMTP access to your Yahoo! Mail account.

YahooPOPs! emulates a POP3/SMTP server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, etc., to download and send emails from Yahoo! accounts.

This guide shows you how to get SpamPal to work with YahooPOPs!, which should give you spam free access to your Yahoo account!

Download the following file (main site here)

http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/yahoopops/yahoopops-win-0.4.6.exe

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By default SpamPal and YahooPOPs! will try to use the same POP3 port to access your email (port 110) and you will see the following error:

So you firstly need to setup YahooPOPs! to use a different POP3 port.

So, access the YahooPOPs! settings, by right clicking it's systray icon and selecting Configure:

Now, select Advanced Preferenced and then click on Network. Now, change the default POP3 Port from 110 to port 1101

If you have Enable SMTP ticked (as you want to send email via YahooPOPs!) and you are already using SpamPal's SMTP auto-whitelist feature then you will find that YahooPOPs! and SpamPal will both try to use port 25.

So, in order to avoid this, you must tell YahooPOPs! to use a different port for it's SMTP Port, for example; port 251.

Once you've changed the YahooPOPs! SMTP port to 251, you will also have to change the SMTP port on your email program, to the same port number 251 but only for the account your are using for Hotmail

For example, in Outlook Express, you need to do this in the Advanced screen:

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You now need to configure your email program, to use YahooPOPs! and SpamPal, in this example, we'll just configure the POP3 protocol and assume your Yahoo email address is: myadd@yahoo.co.uk

So, make sure your Incoming Mail (POP3) is set to: 127.0.0.1

Now, change your Account name (sometimes called Username) to this format:

myadd@yahoo.co.uk@127.0.0.1:1101
Password : your_yahoo_password

As you will be sending out email via Yahoo (through YahooPOPs!), you will now need to tick My Server requires authentication

So, you should now have something that looks like this screen (Outlook Express):

As you will be sending out email via Yahoo (through YahooPOPs!), you will now need to click on the Settings button to change the settings for your Outgoing Mail Server

Now, Select the Log on using button and then enter your normal Yahoo username and password,
for example:

Account name: myadd@yahoo.co.uk
Password : your_yahoo_password

So, you should now have something that looks like this screen (Outlook Express):

Following this change, your email program, talks to SpamPal on it's normal pop3 port 110.

SpamPal then receives a request to talk to 127.0.0.1 on port 1101 (which is YahooPOPs!).

As YahooPOPs! is looking at port 1101, it sees SpamPal's request forwards it onto Yahoo's sever.

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My Comment
Note left by amin at 2005-01-30 00:02:00

your configuration is somewhat hard for doing

typo
Note left by invalid at 2005-04-10 07:41:52

"Once you've changed the YahooPOPs! SMTP port to 251, you will also have to change the SMTP port on your email program, to the same port number 251 but only for the account your are using for Hotmail"

paragraph should end "yahoomail", not "hotmail"

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Note left by Palmira at 2005-10-29 02:38:20

My Tips - unusual
Note left by Anthony at 2006-03-09 21:09:30

I had the peculiar situation with my laptop of having to change smtp server every time I went to work because I was unable to use my other "regular" e-mail account's smtp server.

I changed my account's smtp server to "silly.server.name" in the e-mail program, then I edited the HOSTS file (in \Windows\system32\drivers\etc) to include:

299.199.144.98 silly.server
91.928.9.341 silly.server

after the line:

127.0.0.1 localhost

After this, my e-mail program required no alteration and sent e-mail both at home and work.

Anyway, the point is, that when I came to add the Yahoo! account to my e-mail program, I only changed the POP port number from 25 to 251, entered 127.0.0.1 in the POP and SMTP servers. I also used the port numbers 251 and 1101 in the YPOPs! configuration. The account user and password were entered exactly as normal. - Everything worked perfectly!

I am still not exactly sure how the HOSTS file works, but it made for a simple configuration of SpamPal with Yahoo!POPs on my system.

unless...?

BTW, my e-mail program is The Bat!

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