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Solution 1
First you need to download newest version of Webmail and the Yahoo Webmail Extension from here and save on your desktop
Now open your thunderbird go to Tools-> Addons->Installs and install .xpi files we have downloaded in the above step after installing restart thunderbird.
Once you open thunderbird go to File->New->Account
Check "Email account" and click next
Fill in Email address "[email protected]" and click next
Check "Pop" and make your incoming server 127.0.0.1 click next
Incoming Username "[email protected]" and click next
Name your thunderbird folder whatever you want and click next..
Your account should have been created....now go to Edit->Account Settings
Under your Yahoo email click "Server settings"
Make the Port 1025 and under security settings click "never" (you can fool around with this and see if you can get it to work under other security settings)....also make sure your Username reads "[email protected]"
Then click OK
Lastly go to Tools->Addons again and highlight Webmail and then click Preferences
Make the port in here 1025 as well and then click ok. finally restart thunderbird again.
That's it now try downloading your mails
Solution 2
This seems to be the simple solution
Just go into yahoo mail options and set the preferred content setting to Asia--then you have POP3 enabled for free; currently getting all Yahoo mail in my gmail directly
Check this for detailed instructions from here
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Solution 1 worked like a charm. Thanks
Any idea how to set it up in Evolution ?
aww…very nice.
@Moh: who still uses Evolution these days? =\
I got this error!!!
“Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server 127.0.0.1 responded: negative vibes from [email protected]“
I followed solution 2 and now i am forwarding to my gmail 🙂 great stuff!
@awww: i just switched from Thunderbird to Evolution! which i found easier to use and got all the extensions (plug-ins/addons) that i need while in thunderbird it took some time to fine tune it to meet my needs…evolution everything worked for me out of the box
I got the smtp feature working too, ok in Tools->Add-ons selet the preferences for smtp set the port to be something else I chose the next along 1026 then click the green + icon to start it (saves a restart) make sure “Enable on startup” is checked. (You can also optionally check “Show server status in status bar” to get a handy reminder of status.) Then make smtp accout as follows in Edit->Account Settings … go to the left pane scroll down to “Outgoing Server (SMTP)” select this and then select the Add button on the far right, in Decription give it a name i.e. “yahoo smtp”, then set “Server Name:” to 127.0.0.1 then set port to 1026 set username to your user name i.e. [email protected] or [email protected] set “Use secure conection” to No, (I haven’t tried the other options yet) click OK and you should be good to go, then pick your pop or imap account that u want to use this smtp server and go to select the top of the accounts tree in the left pane and then go down the page that comes up to “Outgoing Server (SMTP):” and select your new account in the dropdown and there you go. I’ve tried it with yahoo and hotmail and it works fine.
Please HELP!
I’ve tried solution 1, step by step, as detailed above. I could not reach my account, while I launch Thunderbird:
An error had occurred with the POP3 mail sever. Mail sever 127.0.0.1 responded: [blank]
What did I wrong?
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