How to Configure Mozilla Thunderbird for Yahoo! Mail
Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular email program from the same company that created the Firefox Web browser. Because it's a free download and offers a wide variety of features, Thunderbird is growing in popularity as an alternative to Microsoft's Outlook and Apple's Safari email programs. If you have a Yahoo! Mail Plus account, it's easy to set up Thunderbird to check your email without your Web browser.
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Instructions
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Setting Up Your Account
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Open Mozilla Thunderbird.
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Go to the "File" menu and choose "New" > "Account..." and click "Continue."
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Type your name and email address in the appropriate fields. Click "Continue."
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Type "plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com" in the "Incoming Server:" field and "plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com" in the "Outgoing Server:" field. Click "Continue."
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Add your Yahoo! user name in the "Incoming User Name" and "Outgoing User Name" fields. Click "Continue."
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Enter a name for the account in the "Account Name:" field. Click "Continue."
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Verify that your settings are correct, then click "OK" and you're finished.
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Tips & Warnings
Copy and paste the incoming and outgoing server addresses to be sure they're correct.
Mozilla Thunderbird will only work with Yahoo! Mail Plus accounts that offer POP access. It will not work with free Yahoo! email accounts.
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bigpush
Jun 02, 2010
It words perfectly of Yahoo Mail Plus accounts. For free accounts This is good. but it only works for prefered accounts set to anywhere other than US. Change set prefered account to something else.
