Can I use other email programs, such as Netscape, Eudora, or Outlook, to send and read my Yahoo! Mail?

Yahoo! offers POP access to Yahoo! Mail as a free feature exclusively for Yahoo! Delivers members. If you agreed to receive special offers in your mailbox when you registered for Yahoo! Mail, you are automatically a member of Yahoo! Delivers.

If you are not sure if you are a member of Yahoo! Delivers, and you are currently signed into your account, check your status on this page. If you are not signed into your account, you can check your status or become a Yahoo! Delivers member by doing the following:

  1. Sign into your Yahoo! Mail account.
  2. Click on "Options" on the left hand navigation bar.
  3. Click on Yahoo! Delivers on the Options Page.
  4. Click "Yes" under Sign Up.
  5. Fill out the rest and click the "Finished" button.

Once you have completed these steps, you are ready to set up your Yahoo! Mail account so you can read your messages on the Web and also through another email program. Click on "Options" and then on POP Access & Forwarding and follow the directions on the screen.

To learn how to configure your email program, please choose from the following programs:

Remember, you can always visit the Yahoo! Mail interface whenever you like, even if you are on occasion receiving your messages using POP.

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