Re: OE6 won't send Yahoo emails

From: N. Miller (nsm_at_blackhole.aosake.net)
Date: 02/01/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:02:57 -0800

In article <75c001c3e82f$eafa3940$a101280a@phx.gbl>,
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> Yahoo is not my ISP. My ISP is
> Tele2 in France. They do not provide any email service.
> They might be able to, but on their site there is no
> mention of it, nor was there in the liiterature when I
> received my ADSL modem. It's the cheapest provider in
> France, so they merely offer access to the net.
>
> I have OE6 set up the way that Yahoo specifies, which is:
> "In the Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP, or HTTP) server box,
> type pop.mail.yahoo.com.au
> In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server box, type
> smtp.mail.yahoo.com.au"

If I may *** in, here...

If your ISP doesn't provide email service, odds are that they are not
blocking port 25, so that shouldn't be an issue.

If you don't have to pay for access to the smtp.mail.yahoo.com.au server,
then you should be able to get it to fly. That fee issue can be a problem,
though; Yahoo! moved to fee access in the U.S., and I seem to recall
somebody else had said that Yahoo! Australia was going that way to. Maybe
try a yahoo.co.uk account? I haven't heard that they were going fee. Yet.

Some things to check:

Make sure that there are no typos in any entry. Typos are my bane when I try
to configure things; always slipping in something extra, or omitting
something...arrrggggghhhh! :P

Does the Australian Yahoo! expect you to accept an advertising message for
free POP3/SMTP access? Back when Yahoo! U.S. (yahoo.com) offered free
access, I had to let them send a monthly issue of Yahoo! Delivers to get
access. It was a requirement.

Do they expect your entire email address as the authentication name? For
access to smtp.mail.yahoo.com I don't remember the authentication, but for
access to smtp.pacbell.yahoo.com, which I have access to use now, I have to
enter <username@pacbell.invalid> + <password>. Some software, notably
Mozilla clients, can't handle the '@' in such a scheme, so try '%' instead.

You have to tell your client that the server requires authentication, but
I've never known Yahoo! servers to require "Secure Passord Authentication".
Usually you can leave the setting for "Use POP3 login" with Yahoo! service. 

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Norman
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