Accessing (Popping) Non-AT&T Yahoo! Mail

Adding an Account Editing an Account Retrieving External Email Sending Mail Using an External Address Deleting an Account

Adding an External Mail Account

You can configure AT&T Yahoo! Mail to retrieve messages from most external mail accounts to which you have POP3 access (accounts that you can access using an email client application such as Outlook, Eudora, or Netscape Mail). For example, you can use AT&T Yahoo! Mail at home to access your POP mail account at work.

The AT&T Yahoo! Mail server retrieves messages from an external mail account for you to view in a web-based email client.

To set up AT&T Yahoo! Mail to access and send email from an external mail account, you need the following information about your external account:

  • Your email address: AT&T Yahoo! Mail uses the email address to send messages so they appear to come from your external account.
  • Your user name: This is different from your email address. Typically it is the part of your email address before the @ symbol.
  • Your password: The password is whatever you use to access your external mail account. It is not necessarily the same as your AT&T Yahoo! password.
  • The POP mail server name.
  • The POP mail server port: You only need this information if the port number is something other than 110.

AT&T Yahoo! Mail Customer Care doesn’t know and can’t provide you with information about your non-AT&T Yahoo! email accounts. Contact your Internet service provider or network administrator if you need assistance gathering this information.

Tip: You can’t use AT&T Yahoo! Mail to retrieve messages from a web-based email account such as Hotmail or from another Yahoo! Mail account that hasn’t been set up for POP access.

 

Here’s How

  1. Go to your AT&T Yahoo! Mail page and click the Options link in the upper-right corner of the page.

    Click the Options link.

    The Mail Options page appears.

  2. Under the Management section on the Mail Options page, click the Mail Addresses link.

    The Mail Accounts page appears, displaying information about your AT&T Yahoo! Mail account.

  3. Click the Add button to launch the Add Account wizard.

    Click the Add button to begin adding an external email account.

  4. In Step 1, enter a name for the new account (for example, Work or School), then click the Continue button.

    Enter a name for the new account.

  5. In Step 2, enter the name and email address on your external account. Enter the "From" name to use and the email address for the external account, then click the Continue button.

    Specify a From name and the email address for the external account.Enlarge

  6. In Step 3, enter the following information about the external account:

    • The POP mail server name

    • Your user name

    • Your password

    • An indicator color to mark messages that you receive from this account.

    Specify the options for accessing the external mail server.Enlarge

    Tip: You can skip Step 3 and set up the mail server later. Just click the Skip This Step button now. When you’re ready to set it up, edit the account.

  7. Click the Setup Mail Server button.

    The Verify Account page now appears.

  8. If the email address shown is correct, click the Send Verification button. AT&T Yahoo! Mail will send a confirmation message to the external email address to verify that you are the owner of the account.

    If the email address shown is correct, click the Send Verification button.Enlarge

  9. Check your external mail account for the confirmation message from AT&T Yahoo! Mail. Follow the instructions in the message to complete the verification process.

 

What’s Next

When your external mail account has been successfully added, it appears on the Mail Accounts page.

The newly added external email account appears on the Mail Accounts page.

AT&T Yahoo! Mail can store settings for up to ten different mail accounts. You can edit an external account to view or change some of its settings.

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Words to Know

  • External email account: an email account that used a mail server other than the AT&T Yahoo! Mail server.
  • Mail server: an application that receives incoming email and forwards outgoing email for delivery. A computer dedicated to running such applications is also called a mail server.
  • POP3: Post Office Protocol 3, a standard client/server protocol for receiving email in which a mail server receives and holds email messages for you.