POP3 is a common protocol that use by desktop email client to retrieve emails from your mail server. Most web-based email service don't provide access to POP3. But it is changing. Major email provider such as GMail and Hotmail are providing POP3 to their user, except for Yahoo! Mail. POP3 is a premium service that require subscription for Yahoo Mail user. But, for some reason Asia user can use it for free! This option is not enable by default and you need to change some settings to enable POP3 in your Yahoo! Mail. Follow the guide below to enable POP3 access for your account:
Step 1: Login into your web Yahoo! Mail. Click on your Display Name and select 'Edit My Account'
Step 2: You will see your account settings page. In the Member Information section, check the current settings for Preferred Content. If it is Yahoo! Asia, please skip to step 7. Else, click 'Edit' on the Member Information section here.
Step 3: In the Member Details page, click on the current Preferred Content option. (ie: Yahoo! US)
Step 4: Change your current preferred content settings to Yahoo! Asia and click 'Finished'.
Step 5: Go through the TOS and click 'I Accept'. (If you decline the TOS, you cannot proceed further)
Step 6: Your preferred should be 'Yahoo! Asia' now. Click the 'Finished' button on the top right to save the settings.
Step 7: In your main mail box page, click on Options and select Mail Options.
Step 8: Click on POP & Forwarding. Click the 'Set up or edit 'POP & Forwarding' link.
Step 9: Select the Web & POP Access options. Change the other settings if necessary. Click Save.
And you are done! The settings for the POP3 and SMTP:
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.mail.yahoo.com (Use SSL, port: 995)
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.com (Use SSL, port: 465, use authentication)
Account Name/Username: <Your Yahoo! Mail address>
Email address: <Your Yahoo! Mail address>
Password: <Your Yahoo! Mail password>
I will post a guide later on how to setup Yahoo! Mail in your Outlook 2007. 
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[...] signing in to the service and changing your settings there). Follow the following steps described here to enable POP access in [...]
Thanks. It works for me
For some reason, after I changed to Yahoo mail asia, i don't have the option "POP and Forwarding" between "Account" and "Vacation Response". What went wrong?
Weird… is the Yahoo logo showing any Asian country? ie: Malaysia?
Try signing out and in again. Then double check the settings.
can't see the 'POP & Forwarding' in mail option. sad…what can i do next?
haha…i knew already..change the yahoo to "yahoo classic"! the will see the "pop & forwarding"..i got it!
Thx for the answers. I read on the internet after some research, that the whole thing with changing to Yahoo Asia doesn't work with "newer" Yahoo accounts (mine is from August '08). Eventually I made myself a new Email-address with @yahoo.de, because I'm from Germany anyway. There, POP is free. It works
[...] in Outlook 2007. First you need to enable POP3 in your Yahoo! Mail account. You can follow my guide here on how to enable POP3 in Yahoo! [...]
Can I send out e-mails if's I'm using Windows Live Mail? I am using Yahoo! Asia. I tried synching using the standard POP settings. I managed to download my mails in Windows Live Mail but can't send out e-mails from there.
Hi Dee,
Did you fill in the SMTP details correctly? Unfortunately, I don't have Windows Live Mail installed in my PC now. You can try following the guide I posted here and see whether it can help:
http://www.khimhoe.net/2009/09/01/how-to-setup-yahoo-mail-in-outlook-2007/
thanks buddy it works
Hello,
It seams that this solution is not applicable for accounts created after 12.Sep.2009.
I am trying to enable the POP3 option for an email account created on the 14.Sep.2009 and after selecting the Proffered Content to Yahoo Asia and clicking the Finish button, the TOS screen does not appear but the contend is changed.
In this case the POP3 option is still not available.
Do you know a work arround in this case?
Thanks,
Monitor_R
My account dates from 2000 and the solution worked as described. Many thanks!.
thank you very much. It work very good on my computer with windows 7 and outlook 2010. I had tried with ypops but pop yahoo mail was not working.
THANKS
Very good. Works 100% with Thunderbird and an account from the last century.
Wow. works perfect.
its the best way there is.
PERFECT..WORKS
works for one of my yahoo accounts that was made around 2001 but My mail options does not have the option for pop foward on another yahoo account made from more recently. guess yahoo fixed it.
Very useful help
i wonder why it did not work for me. followed the instructions above. Changed mine from US to Philippines. Changed also to classic mode. but still do not have the option for POP and forwarding. My account says Member Since: 06/22/2001. Any ideas
[...] بخش Preferred Content یاهو آسیا را انتخاب کنید. راهنمایی بیشتر اینجا: http://www.khimhoe.net/2009/06/20/how-to-enable-pop3-in-yahoo-mail) حالا در سمت چپ [...]
I created my account around August 2008 and I can't get the POP3 and forwarding option, I switched to classic mail but I still don't get it…I have it on Yahoo Asia.
[...] of all, enable POP access in your Yahoo, Hotmail or AOL [...]
was struggling like anything to set up yahoo mail in outlook 2007 but wasnt working finally by changing it to asia contents, issue been sorted in minute. thanks a lot !