YPOPs has been updated (delivers Yahoo email via POP3)
YPOPs, a free POP3 email interface for sending and receiving Yahoo email via your POP3 email client, was updated on October 18, 2006. POP3 email clients include Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora, etc. If you use one of these programs and would like to be able use it to send and receive your Yahoo email, YPOPs will allow you to do so. Normally, Yahoo email must be accessed via HTTP, using a web browser. This program bridges the gap between HTTP and POP3 email.
I have written out instructions for configuring and using YPOPs on my Wiz's Workshop page. I am using YPOPs on various operating systems, including Windows Vista RC1. I am not affiliated with YPOPs in any way; I am just a happy user.
Download
You can download the latest version of YPOPs from Don Beusee's Download Site (He is involved in the project).
YPOPs Project information, documentation and discussion forums
What's New in Version 0.8.7 (18th October 2006)
# Support Yahoo! Mail Beta. YPOPs! will force it's own sessions to use the original web interface even if users have switched to beta. This way, users won't have to deal with these beta issues. In the long run, we need to use the SOAP API, but this will do for the moment.
# Put all ini file settings in the file - previously, defaults were excluded on the windows version. This allows users to copy some settings to an account section and modify it as needed. Hopefully some day someone can enhance the config UI to work with account-specific settings.
! Implement locking for the ypops.ini file to prevent other threads from trying to read it at the same time, clobbering over one another. This also prepares for a future version of YPOPs! being separated in 2 parts - a GUI front end the user can run and the service back end that works even without the GUI parts.
# Any dialog that ypops pops up during a send/receive (yahoo error, send verify, login verify) will automatically time out after 10 minutes, and it will be as though you cancelled or closed the dialog.
+ If you have a Yahoo Mail Plus account that can send from different email addresses, YPOPs! now supports this. Simply enter the desired email address in the email client in the account setup, and YPOPs! will pass this along to Yahoo. Note that the email address must be set up as a mail account in the mail options in Yahoo.
Bullet Type Legend
+ Feature Addition
- Feature Removal
! Bug Fix
# Feature/Performance Enhancement
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