POP Email

[5029]

Can someone give me nstructions as to how to set up my outlook to retrieve my Lycos email, or vice versa? In simpletons terms please, I can't seem to find any of the POP information needed and don't relly know what it is anyway

[xyzzyplugh]

I've done it on mine (for Yahoo) but it's hard to explain; You need to get the 'pop3 server' (incoming mail) address from the correct Lycos page. It may be something like pop3.mail.lycos.com or something and put it in your Dialup network settings by starting the wizard in Outlook with a click in Outlook on Options/Accounts/add new account (or something)[this starts the wizard] The wizard will also ask for the smtp address [outgoing mail server], this you get from Lycos too. It might be smtp.mail.lycos.com Also enter your Lycos account username and Lycos email address and password. Then if you get it right, your Lycos stuff will arrive in Outlook. Is that plain, or not? If all else fails, Join Yahoo.co.uk their pop3 address is pop3.mail.yahoo.co.uk and their other bit is smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk - Good luck, it's easy really :-)

[j2buttonsw]

To add to zyzzplugh's answer: According to my ping command: pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk and pop.mail.yahoo.com both point to 216.136.173.10 (aka pop.vip.sc5.yahoo.com) and both smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk and smtp.mail.yahoo.com point to 216.136.173.12 (aka smtp.vip.sc5.yahoo.com). Both pop3.mail.yahoo.co.uk and pop3.mail.yahoo.com do not exist.

[LGLC]

Yahoo stopped allowing you to view your POP3 Yahoo account through Outlook or Outlook Express a while back, offering a costly subscription service if you wished to have this feature. Here's a quote from the site: "You recently attempted to retrieve your Yahoo! Mail messages using a POP3 client such as Outlook Express. Yahoo! Mail no longer provides free POP3 Access or Auto Mail Forwarding to Yahoo! Delivers subscribers. If you would like to continue using Mail Forwarding or POP3 Access, please sign up for our improved package that allows you to: Use Outlook, Eudora, or another POP3 client to access and manage your Yahoo! Mail. Automatically forward your Yahoo! Mail to another email account -- even another Yahoo! address. Send larger attachments, now up to 5MB instead of the free 1.5MB limit. Send email without the Yahoo! promotional text at the bottom.* " As for Lycos, I went to the site and it seems to suggest a similar thing - that you have to pay a subsription fee to use POP3 Clients to access it. Here's the info from the site: " $19.95 per year 25MB Mailbox Disk Storage POP Client Access Account Preservation No Ad Banners No Ad Taglines " Sorry to answer your question with "it's not possible", but that's what the answer seems to be unless you're willing to pay.