Outlook 2002, Earthlink DSL & Yahoo! Mail Plus

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James Williams

I'm using Outlook 2002. I have Earthlink DSL and a Yahoo! Mail Plus
account. I'm able to configure Outlook 2002 to send and recieve e-mail via
Earthlink mail, but not with Yahoo!. I've set the outbound server to
mail.earthlink.net and the inbound server to pop.mail.yahoo.com. With this
I can send e-mail, but I can't recieve it. Everytime Outlook tries to logon
to the inbound mail server, it fails. I've checked and rechecked the
username and password and that's not the problem.
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

The authentication setup is wrong. Earthlink (and others) will not send
mail via another mail server. Check with Earthlink and Yahoo! help files
for how to set the authentication. Yahoo! has the best instructions.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, James Williams
asked:

| I'm using Outlook 2002. I have Earthlink DSL and a Yahoo! Mail Plus
| account. I'm able to configure Outlook 2002 to send and recieve
| e-mail via Earthlink mail, but not with Yahoo!. I've set the
| outbound server to mail.earthlink.net and the inbound server to
| pop.mail.yahoo.com. With this I can send e-mail, but I can't recieve
| it. Everytime Outlook tries to logon to the inbound mail server, it
| fails. I've checked and rechecked the username and password and
| that's not the problem.
 
J

James Williams

The authentication setup is wrong. Earthlink (and others) will not send
mail via another mail server. Check with Earthlink and Yahoo! help files
for how to set the authentication. Yahoo! has the best instructions.

Milly,

Sending (i.e. SMTP) works fine. It recieving, i.e. POP3, that doesn't work.
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Then check your account properties on the server tab to see if
authentication is set up.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, James Williams
asked:

|| The authentication setup is wrong. Earthlink (and others) will not
|| send mail via another mail server. Check with Earthlink and Yahoo!
|| help files for how to set the authentication. Yahoo! has the best
|| instructions.
|
| Milly,
|
| Sending (i.e. SMTP) works fine. It recieving, i.e. POP3, that
| doesn't work.
 

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