POP3: Post Office Protocol v3, used to download e-mails.
IMAP: Internal Mail Access Protocol, a replacement for POP3 with more advanced mailbox management functionality.
HTTP: Web access...
If you do want to use POP for your Yahoo account, you may check out YahooPOPs, which is a freeware local POP to HTTP proxy for your Yahoo! account.
Yahoo's free accounts cannot use POP3/IMAP.Yahoo's POP3 support is open only to paid users.
POP3: Post Office Protocol v3, used to download e-mails.
IMAP: Internal Mail Access Protocol, a replacement for POP3 with more advanced mailbox management functionality.
HTTP: Web access...
If you do want to use POP for your Yahoo account, you may check out YahooPOPs, which is a freeware local POP to HTTP proxy for your Yahoo! account.
YPOPs! is an application that provides POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail. It is available on the Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac platforms.
Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service on 24th April, 2002. This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, etc., to download email from Yahoo! accounts. We do not go against the license agreements of Yahoo! Mail. This application is completely legitimate and well within the realms of legal software.
How do we do it you ask? Well, this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at one end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo