I don't know how to set up my pop3 and stmp account to receive and send email

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Becky Smith-Miles

I have always used a serviced like AOL or Yahoo for mail. Now, Microsoft
mail needs to know all that stuff about POP3 and STMP. I have tried to set
them up with a connection to yahoo.com without success.

You guys are so much more advanced than me and I'm sorry to be asking such
an elementary question, but I am getting nowhere.

Thanks,
Becky
 
Becky, the best way to find that information for use with MS Mail is to
contact your Service Provider; many will have the informsation in their
onlne Help files.

Hope this helps Lisa.
 
Hi Becky,

Other replies have pointed you in the right direction. An Access newsgroup
isn't the place to ask about configuring Live Mail to handle Yahoo or AOL.

That said, I don't think it's possible - at least, not without LOTS of
hassle. If you search SourceForge (www.sourceforge.net) for a program
called YPOPS! then you *might* find a way to use something like OE or
another email client. I haven't checked if Live Mail would work with it ...
maybe. Live Mail allows you to set up accounts for POP3, IMAP and HTTP so
you might be lucky ... so long as YPOPS! is running. The developers website
is http://ypopsemail.com

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According to the developer's site:

YPOPs! is a free open source software that provides POP3 and SMTP access to
Yahoo! Mail. You can use your favourite email client, be it Outlook,
Thunderbird, or whatever else you like and connect to Yahoo! Mail
seamlessly.

How do we do it you ask? Well, this application is more 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! The same concept holds good for SMTP as well.
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As for AOL ... there is an excellent "How to" on about.com ...
http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/et122204.htm

BTW, the same site offers details instructions on how to configure YPOPS! to
allow you read your Yahoo emails in Outlook. With this you *should* be able
to adapt the instructions to suite a number of email clients. Maybe you
could use it with Live Mail - haven't tried myself.

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The ONLY reason that I responded in detail was because you may be a young
user (can't tell) and it's possible that others on this group might like to
know from a technical perspective.

Also ... newsgroups are a great way to get help but it good manners to at
least try to solve an issue yourself before posting. I did two Google
searches and found the answers immediately. Search string: access yahoo
emails with outlook - access AOL emails with outlook.

Cheers and HTH,

Mike
Australia
 
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