How to configure Thunderbird Yahoo mail settings in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

This tutorial will explain how to configure Thunderbird Yahoo mail settings in Ubuntu 9.10.


Solution 1

First you need to download newest version of Webmail and the Yahoo Webmail Extension from here and save on your desktop

Now open your thunderbird go to Tools-> Addons->Installs and install .xpi files we have downloaded in the above step after installing restart thunderbird.

Once you open thunderbird go to File->New->Account

Check “Email account” and click next

Fill in Email address “youremail@yahoo.com” and click next

Check “Pop” and make your incoming server 127.0.0.1 click next

Incoming Username “youremail@yahoo.com” and click next

Name your thunderbird folder whatever you want and click next..

Your account should have been created….now go to Edit->Account Settings

Under your Yahoo email click “Server settings”

Make the Port 1025 and under security settings click “never” (you can fool around with this and see if you can get it to work under other security settings)….also make sure your Username reads “youremail@yahoo.com”



Then click OK
Lastly go to Tools->Addons again and highlight Webmail and then click Preferences

Make the port in here 1025 as well and then click ok. finally restart thunderbird again.

That’s it now try downloading your mails

Solution 2
This seems to be the simple solution

Just go into yahoo mail options and set the preferred content setting to Asia--then you have POP3 enabled for free; currently getting all Yahoo mail in my gmail directly

Check this for detailed instructions from here

Categories: Ubuntu