Setting up Yahoo account in Outlook Express

[Jeff]

My question is about: How do I configure Outlook Express
for POP access?

ISP: I'm on a server at work

Email Client: Outlook Express

Type your feedback here:
I can receive, but not send my Yahoo!
email. I have followed the
instructions exactly to setup an
account on my Outlook Express 6 and my
Outlook 2003 at work. Error messages
from OE are as follows:

The connection to the server has
failed. Account: 'Yahoo',
Server: 'smtp.mail.yahoo.com',
Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL):
No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number:
0x800CCC0E

Thanks for your help. I'm giving up on hotmail, and
wanted to switch to Yahoo! I bought the $20 package from
Yahoo! that supposedly gives you POP3 access.

Jeff

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi - this is an Outlook newsgroup, not an Outlook Express one. Have you
checked with Yahoo's support pages for help with configuring your mail
client to use Yahoo via POP?

Can you go to a command prompt and type

telnet smtp.mail.yahoo.com 25 <enter>

and see a reply?

For OE questions, post in an OE group.

Try posting in one of these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x
microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac for OE for Macintosh

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups).

If you're accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services Community Newsgroups web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number.

A good website for information on OE is:
http://www.tomsterdam.com/