HELP: Cannot retrieve my Outlook/Outlook Express messages from my Yahoo email account

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Jimmy said:
In the past, I have always been able to use my Yahoo email account to
download my emails from my Outlook/Outlook Express POP server.

In other words, I could always use Yahoo to access my Outlook email
without Outlook at all. Just go into an Internet cafe anywhere in the
world and I can access my Outlook emails from the Yahoo email site.

But lately, the Yahoo email kept giving an error message:

"POP server does not support LAST command. You may only retrieve POP
mail from this server using "get all messages".

The Yahoo email webpage doesn't seem to allow me to input this "get
all messages" command into their system. Grateful for your advice.
I couldnt get thru' to Yahoo tech support.
I am using Win XP, Outlook XP and Outlook Express 6.

Thks
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You will *NOT* receive a helpful response, from me at least, until you do
the decent thing and fix your timezone. You are in Singapore, which is ahead
of UTC (GMT) by eight hours, yet you have your timezone set to -0700 which
is Mountain Time in the US. And before you say "but I am ahead of you!"
that's as maybe, but the viewer's server localises the posts to *THEIR*
zone. So, if I was to post this at midnight, it would show up on your
server/OE as being posted at 8am.

You are also cross-posting to too many groups- and most of them are
irrelevant anyway. Why are you cross-posting to
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie5beta.browser (and its equivalent OE group),
for example, when it's been obsolete for the past 4 years at least?! The
Windows XP general group is also superfluous.
 
Right click on the clock | adjust date and time.

--
Just my ¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| Forgive me as I am a newbie, but why is the Time Zone causing a problem to
| the Newsgroup
| Incidentally, how do I fix my Time Zone.
|
 
Jimmy said:
Forgive me as I am a newbie, but why is the Time Zone causing a
problem to the Newsgroup
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Because it's incredibly rude to set your clock forward - it's the Usenet
equivalent of queue jumping. You'd be pretty annoyed if someone pushed ahead
of you in the supermarket/bank/post office wouldn't you? Usenet is no
different.
Incidentally, how do I fix my Time Zone.
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Right click the clock and select properties.
 
Are you trying to retrieve new messages only? That would be one reason
you're getting the error message since the LAST command has been removed
from POP3 protocol (RFC1939). See RFC1725.

Might search Google for other help.
 
In the past, I have always been able to use my Yahoo email account to
download my emails from my Outlook/Outlook Express POP server.

In other words, I could always use Yahoo to access my Outlook email without
Outlook at all. Just go into an Internet cafe anywhere in the world and I
can access my Outlook emails from the Yahoo email site.

But lately, the Yahoo email kept giving an error message:

"POP server does not support LAST command. You may only retrieve POP mail
from this server using "get all messages".

The Yahoo email webpage doesn't seem to allow me to input this "get all
messages" command into their system. Grateful for your advice. I couldnt
get thru' to Yahoo tech support.
I am using Win XP, Outlook XP and Outlook Express 6.

Thks
 
PA said:
Also your cookies won't work and so you may not be able to log-on to
such sites as [drumroll] Yahoo Mail.
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Good, point - so it's probably the solution to his problem - I'd forgotten
that...
 
Yes, new messages only. Strange that POP3 protocol would remove the LAST
command without replacing it with something.
 
Forgive me as I am a newbie, but why is the Time Zone causing a problem to
the Newsgroup
Incidentally, how do I fix my Time Zone.
 
When OE polls a POP3 account for messages, it seeks all messages. After
communicating with the POP3 server, OE uses a file named Pop3uidl.dbx (in
your Identity's store) to compare messages on the server to those already
downloaded. OE then identifies the new (not yet downloaded) messages and
downloads only them.
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
AH-VSOP
http://forum.aumha.org/

 
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