I have a Yahoo e-mail account and want to automatically have my mail
moved into my USPostMail account so I only have to read mail from one
placeSee NOTES at end of this document!
Yahoo and many other service providers (including USPostMail) allow
you to read mail from an external program such as Outlook, Outlook
Express, Eudora and more. USPostMail goes one better -- from
within your USPostMail account, you can tell USPostMail to collect mail
from other services -- such as Yahoo -- and put them into your
USPostMail mail box!
Here's instructions for Yahoo (and many others):
1) Log on to your USPostMail account
2) Go to MAIL OPTIONS, click on the RPOP tab
3) Set the "poll every" to the right setting (how often you want your
other mail box checked.
4) Enter your Yahoo (or other) e-mail POP logon name (in the
case of Yahoo this is your account name without '@yahoo.com').
5) For SMTP server put
pop.mail.yahoo.com (this will be something different for
other mail systems.
6) For PASSWORD enter your Yahoo password (or the password for the
mail system you're trying to access)
7) Check LEAVE if you want mail left on your Yahoo account (probably
not or you'll have to go in regularly and delete it)
8) Check APO or TLS if you know that your mail systems support this
encrypted means of mail retrieval (probably not).
9) Click UPDATE
After a couple of moments (as long as 2 minutes) the screen will
update and you will receive a message if the last poll was successful --
if it wasn't, you'll get an error message that will tell you what didn't
work right.
Mail from your old account will not appear as new mail in your
USPostMail account.
9/20/03 Several e-mail services, including Yahoo, have recently
restricted POP access to mail accounts unless you purchase enhanced
services from them. USPostMail thinks this is a unfair and will
reimburse you up to three free months of service to USPostMail to cover
any added expenses you pay to use such services (you do have to use our
RPOP to successfully retrieve from a paid service before we will
reimburse you).
