How to Access Free Yahoo! Mail with Windows Live Mail

Has anybody ever got this to work???

 

I just found this
so I have not had time to try it with my Yahoo email account yet. 

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Windows Live
Mail likes Windows Live
Hotmail — of course. If you like Yahoo! Mail, though, you can
make Windows Live Mail share your preference.

You
can even choose from two flavors of Yahoo! Mail in Windows Live Mail: the free
and easy YPOPs!, which lets you download incoming mail for offline access, and
the sophisticated IzyMail service, which offers you full IMAP access to all your
Yahoo! Mail folders.

Access
Free Yahoo! Mail with Windows Live Mail Using YPOPs! (Simple and Free)

To
set up a free Yahoo! Mail account in Windows Live Mail using YPOPs!:

• Install YPOPs! and
  make sure it is running.
  
• Select Tools | Accounts... from the menu in
  Windows Live Mail.
  
• Click Add....
  
• Make
  sure E-mail Account is
  highlighted.
  
• Click Next.
  
• Type
  your Yahoo! Mail address under E-mail
  address:.
  
• Enter
  your Yahoo! Mail password underPassword:.
  
• Type
  your name under Display Name:.
  
• Make
  sure Manually configure server settings for
  e-mail account is checked.
  
• Click Next.
  
• Make
  sure POP3 is selected
  under My incoming mail server is a ___
  server..
  
• Enter
  "localhost" (not including the quotation marks) under Incoming server:.
  
  
  
  • If
    "localhost" turns out not to work, try "127.0.0.1" instead.
  
  
• Check
  your Yahoo! Mail user name (your Yahoo! Mail address minus "@yahoo.com") is
  entered under Login ID.
  
• Type
  "localhost" under Outgoing server:.
  
• Click Next.
  
• Now
  click Finish.
  
• Click Close.

Access
Free Yahoo! Mail with Windows Live Mail Using IzyMail (IMAP Access to
Folders)

To
add Yahoo! Mail to your Windows Live Mail as an IMAP account using IzyMail:

• Make
  sure your Yahoo! Mail account is registered with IzyMail.
  
• Select Tools | Accounts... from the menu in
  Windows Live Mail.
  
• Click Add....
  
• Make
  sure E-mail Account is
  highlighted.
  
• Click Next.
  
• Type
  your Yahoo! Mail address under E-mail
  address:.
  
• Enter
  your Yahoo! Mail password under Password:.
  
• Type
  your name under Display Name:.
  
• Make
  sure Manually configure server settings for
  e-mail account is checked.
  
• Click Next.
  
• Make
  sure IMAP is selected
  under My incoming mail server is a ___
  server..
  
• Enter
  "in.izymail.com" (not including the quotation marks) under Incoming server:.
  
• Type
  your full Yahoo! Mail email address (including "@yahoo.com") is entered
  underLogin ID.
  
• Type
  "out.izymail.com" under Outgoing
  server:.
  
• Make
  sure My outgoing server requires
  authentication is checked.
  
• Click Next.
  
• Now
  click Finish.
  
• Highlight
  the newly added "Yahoo" account.
  
• Click Properties.
  
• Go
  to the IMAP tab.
  
• Type
  "_Sent" under Sent Items path:.
  
• Enter
  "_Draft" under Drafts path:.
  
• Click OK.
  
• Now
  click Close.

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