Re: A89: [OT!!] Mail servers.....good one??
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Re: A89: [OT!!] Mail servers.....good one??
Dude...Check your options. It's not my service provider, but I am receiving
it's mail and sending in outlook express.
You have to sign up to receive their spam to do that(it's still free), check
the options
when you log in to the web based thing.
It has forwarding, and pop3/smtp
>
> whoops, sorry, I was confused about POPs and SMTPs...
> Yahoo does NOT offer POP3 access. This means you can't receive mail
through
> your mailer like outlook/eudora/composer.
> Yahoo does NOT offer SMTP access unless you're signed up with Yahoo as
your
> service provider. I've just tried it again, it rejects me, that's also
> documented in their help.
>
>
>
> :>Yahoo offers SMPT. It works just fine. Make sure you are set up
> :>to accessing
> :>smtp.mail.yahoo.com I know that this works because I am using it to
send
> :>this very message and so if you don't get this message it really doesn't
> :>work:)
> :>Yahoo is awesome. What other service provider offers pop3 access and
lets
> :>you check your mail on the web?
> :>I don't care I love yahoo.
> :>
> :>
> :>-----Original Message-----
> :>From: owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
> :>[mailto:owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Andrey Kislyuk
> :>Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 1:07 PM
> :>To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
> :>Subject: RE: A89: [OT!!] Mail servers.....good one??
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>wonder if I should answer to such an OT message... anyway -
> :>The vast majority of web-based email servers, including flagships
> :>Yahoo and
> :>Hotmail, will not offer SMTP access for their own sake - they get
> :>money from
> :>ads that you see on their web interfaces. I am not aware of any free
mail
> :>servers that offer SMTP access and would be very interested if
> :>anyone knows
> :>of one...
> :>-ak
> :>
> :>:>Anyway, if there is anyone
> :>:>out there who knows how to get the SMTP server to
> :>:>respond to my requests, I'd appreciate the help
> :>:>(because Yahoo! obviously doesn't like to answer
> :>:>questions about this and leaves it to a stupid
> :>:>automated response system which sucks!). And, on the
> :>:>same note, what mail services out there work well but
> :>:>are free? I know hotmail is OK, but I don't think you
> :>:>can access it using POP or SMTP. Any suggestions??
> :>
> :>
> :>
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>
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