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On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 20:22 +0100, Simon Waters wrote: > Simon wrote: > > > > According to Yahoo you have to upgrade to a subscription account to send > > e-mails to their server, yet Thunderbird and Outlook can do it with a freebie > > account. Postfix does not work, (which may be a configuration problem on my > > side of things), I am going to try a Google account and see what happens. > > Standard are standards. I couldn't get a free account to work with > Yahoo! and Icedove and the documented settings for SMTP Auth. > > Historically folks claiming to do this were using YPOPs, which is an > interface that sits in the middle and converts stuff. > > I'd be curious to see Viv's settings, if she got it to work, as I assume > it must be how the username is represented or some such. > > I wondered perhaps it is different for BT Openworld users, as I think > their mail servers are on the same network as the Yahoo servers, but > they are on different addresses, so I assume different servers/configs. > > Simon > I paid the subscription on my own yahoo account. However, last year when it ran out, Yahoo did not remind me / I did not renew. Evolution carried on sending / recieving email and I only noticed (eventually) because I had to log in more often and was getting more advertising appearing. Yahoo had simply reverted me automatically to a free account but, it did not affect pop. Recently though, I set up a friend with a free yahoo account. I thought that he would have to pay like I did, when he wanted Outlook to download his email. I remember that I did have a few problems getting it working properly. The published settings in the Yahoo Online Help that I used with my own email account did not work fully - it enabled emails to be recieved but, would not send them. I think I played about with the settings concerning authentication - in fact, I think that I just unchecked the "my server requires authentication" box and it worked. Sorry that I cannot be more specific - it was a few weeks ago and I cannot quite remember what I did. Viv -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html