Default mail program?

13 years ago

Do you know how I can change mine to yahoo? It doesn't give me that option. It will only do Windows Live or Outlook express. What do I need to change or add to get more options? I've tried everything I know already.

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vala55
13 years ago
I wanted yahoo email to come through my Windows e-mail. The tech I talked said you have to have the pay version to do that. He said OE could do it, but our cable doesn't support that and he said it was complicated.
kayjones
13 years ago
Here are two sites that say it can be done and they show the steps - hope one of them works for you.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/settings/settings-10.html

http://email.about.com/od/yahoomailtip1/qt/et_default_mail.htm

Here is a link that might be useful: Make Yahoo your default mail program
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13 years ago
Kay I tried both of them today, it doesn't have the yahoo in my programs, its not a option :^(.
mariend
13 years ago
Some of the servers (and I was notified one of my emails) is blocking off and on Yahoo and Hot Mail due to the amount of spam coming thru. I am not sure how that works as I have hotmail for some of my stuff, but not Yahoo. Will have to go back and read it again. Am confused, but that for me is normal.
jemdandy
13 years ago
I'm using Mozilla's ThunderBird and like it. (It was written by the same crew who wrote the original Netscape and has features similar to Netscape.) ThunderBird is available as free a download, but you are on your own for installation and setup. However, instructions are avialble. Once the parameters are set, it runs as well as any others and will interface with a spell checker. You can download email from more than one ISP after setting up a profile for each ISP.

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