If you are someone who wants to have SMTP and POP Access to your Yahoo Mail account, YPOPs is the application to go for.
YPOPs! provides reliable, flexible, easy to use and secure access to your Yahoo! Mail account in any email client. YPops also can support secure communication and can access mails from all your Yahoo Folders. You can fetch mail from all your Yahoo! Mail folders, and YPOPs! lets you even send mail, placing a copy in your Yahoo! Mail sent mail folder. With an email client that supports it, YPOPs! allows you to preview the headers of new messages before downloading them completely.
With YPops, You can use your favourite email client, be it Outlook, Thunderbird, or whatever else you like and connect to Yahoo! Mail seamlessly.
Image: Configure YPops to download emails
So How Does YPops works?
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.
Image: YPops can even access yahoo mail using HTTPS
Interestingly, you can use YPops to setup Windows Live mail as well. Refer to the instructions here.
So Which features are still missing with YPops?
1.) A better System Tray Icon on Windows, possibly with animation when emails are being downloaded
2.) Running YPOPs! as a Windows Service
3.) Separation of the UI from the core server so that the memory footprint is reduced
4.) Adding Yahoo! folder names to the Subject Line instead of adding it as a header. This will enable filtering on clients like Outlook Express
5.) A Developers Guide to enable others to build the YPOPs! source code
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