How to access mail of free yahoomail account through outlook express.

Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service in April 2002. This resulted in many people (including myself) to look for alternative free POP3 services. But this exercise can be very difficult because of the fact that your Yahoo! Mail address could be with several people and informing all of them about your new email address could prove to be a nightmare.

Now in order to avoid this difficulty follow this tricks.

How to receive or send mail of your free email account of yahoo mail through outlook express?

1) Collect or download YPOPs from the following link:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownloa...load-3702.html
or
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2153.html
or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops

2) Install YPOPS

(YahooPOPs! is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 access to your Yahoo! Mail account.
This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, Calypso, etc., to download email from Yahoo! accounts.
This application acts like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at one end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo! )

3) Now open outlook express 6 and follow the follow the following procedure.
a) File->Manage Identities ->New
b) Give a name of that identity and select ok, window asks do you want to switch that identity click yes.
c) Now Internet connection wizard open , provide a display name then click next.
d) In the email address field provide your yahoo mail address click next.
e) In the next screen select my incoming mail server is POP3 , set the value of incoming mail server and outgoing mail server 127.0.0.1 click next.
f) Type the account name (yahoo mail address) ,enter password ,select remember password click next, click finish.
g) Now go to Tools ->Accounts -> Mail -> Properties
h) Under general tab give the mail account name Say YPOPS
i) Select server tab check my servers requires authentication.
j) Select advanced tab, change servers time out to long -5 minutes.
k) Select leave a copy of message on the server.
l) Select remove from servers when deleted from servers item.
m) Under YPOPs configuration verify that smtp is enabled.
n) In order to verify whether smtm is enabled or not first see is there any icons of YPOPs in your system tray? If it is there right click upon it from the pop up menu select configure, explore Advanced preference by clicking on + sign beside it., select Network and verify whether smtp is enabled or not. If it is not enable it click ok.

4) Now you are ready to send or receive your yahoo mail using outlook express. Before sending or receiving only one thing should be checked whether YPOPs is in your system tray or not. If it is not there open YPOPs first immediately it comes to your system tray and you can send or receive yahoo mail without difficulties.