If you are a Mac and Yahoo user, a good news for you is that you can make use of MacFreePOPs to configure your desktop email client (particularly mail.app) to receive your Yahoo mail. You won’t be able to send mail though. (Windows and Linux users can use the popular YPOPs to configure their desktop clients to access Yahoo)

First download MacFreePop here.

Run MacFrePop. You should see the screen below:

If the update button is available, make sure you click it and update all the internal files. Failure to update the files might render this application useless.

Click on the Extra options to show a list of configuration options. Click on the freepopsd service tab.

Place a check in the first row of options and change the port to 2000 and the address to 127.0.0.1

Once that is done, click on the Start freepopsd service to start the server running.

Now open up your mail.app.

Go to Mail->Preferences and select on the Accounts tab. At the bottom, click on the ‘+’ to add a new mail account.

Enter your name, email address and the password. Leave the “Automatically set up account” option alone.

Click Continue.

Select POP from the dropdown option.

In the Incoming Mail Server field, enter “127.0.0.1“.

In the User Name field, enter the full email address (including the @yahoo.com). Click Continue.

MacFreePop does not allow you to send emails from your Yahoo account, but you can still configure it to send via third party email accounts (or your existing accounts).

At the Outgoing Mail Server dropdown option, choose a setting that you have previously configured. Click Continue.

You should be done with the new account setup. Back in the Account options screen, highlight the newly created account on the left pane and select the Advanced tab on the right pane.

In the Port field, change it to 2000.

Exit the Preferences window.

Back to your Inbox, click on Get Mail. Your mail.app will start to download all your Yahoo emails now.

Troubleshooting

Why can’t I receive emails?

• Make sure that you update all the internal files of MacFreePop by clicking the Update Available button.
• Make sure that you start the freepopsd server before you start to retrieve emails.
• Make sure that in the account setup section, you use ‘127.0.0.1′ as the Incoming server.
• Make sure that you have changed the port to 2000 in the Account setup.

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This free open-source mail client (available for Mac and Windows) combines few great features that can help users manage their emails better.

The developer’s site have a comprehensive list of Postbox’s features and abilities, but here are few that I personally find useful.

1. Create new accounts

The first time Postbox is opened, it will offer you to create a new account. You can also create another account later by going to File -> New -> Account menu. Compared to other email client that I’ve used so far, Postbox’s new account creation is the easiest. It supports major web mail services like GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo and even MobileMe.

2. Browse mails with tabs

Each time you select a mail, it will be shown on one of the window’s pane. There are two pane’s layout that you can choose: Classic View and Vertical View. You can toggle between these two views from the View -> Layout menu.

If you double click on one of the messages, it will be opened in a new tab instead of window. I think the idea is nice and produces less cluttered workspace.

3. Organize messages with topics

In Postbox, you can organize messages by topics. You can set and add any topics that you can think of according to your preferences.

The easiest way to add topic is by right clicking on the favorite topic pane and choose “Create New Favorit Topic” on the popup window. Then you can to assign messages to the topic by clicking the Plus (+) sign next to the “Topic” option in each message.

But if you need to assign topic(s) to many messages automatically, use filtering option for the fastest result. Go to “Message -> Create Filter From Message” menu.

4. To Dos

Postbox comes with the ability to create to do list easily. Not as elaborate as Outlook, but most people – like me – do not need advance organizing capability.

You can create a to do entry manually by clicking “New To Do” icon, or you can ‘tag’ a to do entry to a message by selecting a message and clicking the ‘To Do” button in the message view.

After that, if you go to “View -> Pin To Dos” menu, all the message with the ‘To Do’ tag will be listed above other message.

5. Attachment (and other) List

This app also has a attachment list feature that will show all the attachments from all of the messages in one page. Just click on the Attachment button under the search field. There are 3 other list buttons that you can choose: Images, Links, and Contacts.

The list will open up in a new tab. From here on you can choose to Save (to your hard drive), Send (to others via email), Upload (to Google Docs, but I don’t think this service is compatible with every filetype), or just to have a Quick Look.

This list is based on my short encounter with Postbox for Mac, but the feel for Windows version should not be far off. As time goes by, I’m sure I’ll add more to the “what I like about Postbox” list.

Have you tried Postbox? Whether you will like it or not, this nice app deserves at least a try.

And as always, share your thoughts and experiences in the comment below.

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FreePOPs acts as its own POP proxy transferring data between your web-based interfaces and your choice of email program (i.e. Microsoft Outlook). Another nifty feature is FreePOPs ability to convert RSS feeds into emails allowing you to easily share your favorite feeds as you’re also able to download your feeds onto your desktop. This web application works with very closely with HTTP proxy servers and gives you the option of using a spam and virus filter as well for added protection and additional layers of security.

OS Support

FreePOPs supports a wide variety of operating systems, here’s a brief list defining a few:

• Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP/Vista
• Mac OS X
• Linux/Unix

Just a Free Email app?

FreePOPs is a simple, reliable, and exceptional way to download messages from web based email account to your email programs located on your desktop. Years ago when web based email readily became available, many used to wonder how to make these emails available to them without having to constantly login to their accounts. Finally there is a solution to the once hard to gain ease and comfort of always knowing what is in your mailbox with FreePOPs.  With this app, you’re able to gain access to your email within a matter of seconds while there is no required setup and configuration.

ScreenShot of FreePOPs checking a Gmail account to download the contents to your desktops POP account.

Our POP Journey Has Come to an End

Even though FreePOPs has few flaws like not being able to mark downloaded email as read or the ability to support SMTP settings that would allow you to send email, it is still a display of one’s creativity and ability to further innovate services and applications for a more beneficial use. As times progress we hope that FreePOPs will include more features like the ability to send emails, IMAP access, easier module configuration and more to come.

Click Here for a quick and free download of FreePOPs.

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