Configuring YahooPOPs!

You can configure YahooPOPs! by right-clicking on the YahooPOPs! icon in the system tray and selecting Configure.

The following options can be configured:

Download emails from the Inbox folder: Enabling this allows YahooPOPs! to analyze and download any emails in your Inbox folder

Download emails from the Bulk Mail folder: Enabling this allows YahooPOPs! to analyze and download any emails in your Bulk Mail folder. Bulk Mail folders in all probability will have junk emails/spams and you can disable this if you do not want to download any emails from this folder.

Empty Trash on exit: Enable this if you want YahooPOPs! to clear your trash folder when it has finished downloading your emails.

Empty Bulk Mail on exit: Enable this if you want YahooPOPs! to clear your bulk mail folder when it has finished downloading your emails. You can choose not to download emails from your bulk mail folder, and this option will come in handy to clear the folder without you having to go and clear it up yourself.

Leave Messages as Unread on Yahoo Mail server: Enable this if you want YahooPOPs! to leave messages marked as unread on Yahoo.

Maximum number of emails per session: This option is very important and must be configured with an ideal value for your type of usage. If you receive too many emails or emails with large attachments, then the value of this field should be kept to a low number to ensure that the emails are downloaded to your mail client without it timing out. The remaining emails can be downloaded with another Check email operation from your client. Also, ensure that you have enabled the Delete messages from mail server in your mail client.

Download Email Category: Yahoo categories emails in another way -- Unread messages, flagged messages and all messages. You can select the type of emails that you want to download.

Yahoo Mail allows user defined folders to be created and filters defined to automatically filter emails into these folders. If you want to download emails from such user-defined folders, you can specify the names of the folders here.

YahooPOPs! support a limited amount of SMTP functionality that can be used to send emails from your mail client. If you would like to save a copy of each email that has been sent via your Yahoo account, in Yahoo's Sent Items folder, enable the option.

Connect in secure (HTTPS) mode only: Yahoo! Mail has a secure login page using which the username and password during the logon process is sent in a secure channel. The rest of the session uses normal HTTP. Check this box if you would like your username and password to be sent in a secure way. Do remember that the logon process takes slightly longer if this is checked.

Secure password transmission using MD5: Yahoo! Mail sends the MD5 hash of the password if users are using the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator browsers. Sending a hash increases the level of security. Do remember that the logon process takes slightly longer if this is checked.

Connect via HTTP proxy: This option would be used mostly in corporate networks which use proxy servers. Check this box if you connect to the Internet via a web proxy server. Once checked, the HTTP proxy and HTTPS proxy text fields get enabled. Enter the appropriate details.

Proxy Authentication: If your proxy server requires proxy autentication, then you can enter your username and password by enabling proxy authentication. Please note that YahooPOPs! supports Basic Authentication only. Support for Digest Authentication and NTLM has not been provided.

Bind on I.P address: If your PC is on a network (LAN, Cable, etc) it might have an I.P assigned to it. You can specify the I.P address YahooPOPs! should bind on here. By default, it will use localhost, i.e., 127.0.0.1. By specifying a "non- localhost" I.P, users in the network can access YahooPOPs! running on your PC. Any changes made to the I.P here, requires YahooPOPs! to be restarted for the change to take affect.

NOTE: The help assumes that localhost is the I.P which will be used by YahooPOPs! If you use some other I.P address, please keep that in mind when reading the rest of the help file.

POP3 Port: POP3 mail servers run on port 110 by default. This is the default port number for YahooPOPs! as well. But, if you already running a mail server or have an antivirus application with email scanning enabled, then in all likelyhood you have not been able to run YahooPOPs. You can either change the port settings in your mail server or change it in YahooPOPs. YahooPOPs can run on any TCP port in the range 1 - 65535. Change the port number here, and make the necessary change in your account settings in your email application as well. Restart YahooPOPs! for this change to take affect.

Enable SMTP: Enable this option if you would like to use the SMTP feature of YahooPOPs!. Make a note that the SMTP feature in YahooPOPs! is currently experimental and even when fully implemented, will not be able to support the same level of features one finds in standard SMTP servers. This is because the SMTP feature in YahooPOPs! is emulated and can support what Yahoo Mail's Compose Email feature provides.

SMTP Port: If the SMTP feature has been enabled, this option will be active. SMTP servers run on port 25 by default. You might get errors that this port is already in use. This could be because of the presence of other mail servers, or anti-virus programs on your PC. You can change the port accordingly to avoid this error.

Create an activity log: Enable this if you want a log file to be created. This is useful for debugging problems being faced in configuring YahooPOPs!

Logging Level: Advanced logs dump more data into the log file compared to the basic log.

Limit the size of the log: The maximum size the log file can grow to. Once the size is reached, the log file is deleted.

User Agent: The default user agent will be fine in practically 100% of the scenarios. There should be no need to change the value of this field. This option is provided to fool Yahoo! into believing that a well-known web browser is connecting to its web site.

Download emails silently: If you do not want any popup windows showing the progress of the message download, then you can enable this feature. This is ideal if you want YahooPOPs to check for your email in the background without you being disturbed.

Automatically start YahooPOPs! when Windows starts: Enable this if you would like YahooPOPs! to be launched when Windows is started. Enabling this option creates a shortcut for YahooPOPs! in the Windows Startup folder.

Status window always on top: Enable this option if you would like to have the email download/send window always on top of other windows.