I must be lucky, or what?
A number of years ago (I can’t remember when), I guess there was a trick, a hack or a special offer for a limited time (or something I can’t remember of) that allowed to some users of Yahoo! Mail (possibly only the non-US ones, such as the users of Yahoo! Canada, Yahoo! UK, Yahoo! France, etc.) to enable the POP3/SMTP access to their account… for free, as opposed to the paying Yahoo! Mail Plus.
As my primary Yahoo! account is on Yahoo! Canada (I can’t remember why I did that, but I practically abandoned two older Yahoo.com accounts because of the spam), I was able to get the Mail Plus functionality for free.
Today, it still works. I can use Sylpheed to manage my Yahoo! Mail Canada account:
Cool. I feel privileged. I was smart, back then…
Aug 4, 2009 at 04:08
Cool! You finally couldn't put up with yahoo's webmail interface anymore?
Aug 4, 2009 at 10:03
that's good.
especially when nowadays yahoo webmail seems to be so often crashed (mainly in firefox) since they put ymessenger in it.
by the way, i also noticed that yahoo.co.uk is quite popular because of the free pop3 retrieving ability from years ago up until i last checked it few months ago. maybe it still offers the service.
Aug 5, 2009 at 00:20
Well the retrieving part works for me too with a normal yahoo account. I'm using freepops and Opera for that and it does a great job! It would be nice if I could send mails also but anyway I'm using that account more for receiving mails than using it for sending mails. For that I'm using gmail :).
Btw, I've just tested Google Calendar for sending reminders and invitations to my ex high-school colleagues via Email+SMS about meetings and it works like a charm! I like it! On the other hand I wish that Google SMS channels would be available in this bloody country too (yea, I'm referring to Romania) but I can imagine how our comrades would abuse it…