Incredimail is not an email server, but rather, an email client. It is, according to About.com, “A program used to read and send email messages. As opposed to the email server, which transports mail, an email client is what the user interacts with.” ¹⁾ What it offers “is a fun and easy to use email client that adds spice to the messages you send.” Having said that, Incredimail does not offer it's own email accounts like AIM, Gmail or Hotmail. What this means is, if you want to use Incredimail and you want to use POPFile, you have to use one or more of these email accounts, too. If not for POPFile, the following instructions would best be served on an Incredimail help file. It is assumed that one already has an email account configured and needs only to know how to add POPFile. However, email accounts are added to Incredimail, just like POPFile. It is for this reason that additional guidelines are included here to the Incredimail 'How To' files.

Sign up for a Yahoo account at: https://edit.yahoo.com/config/eval_register?.intl=us&new=1&.done=http%3A//mail.yahoo.com&.src=ym

Visit the following Yahoo page for preliminary instructions concerning Incredimail:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/pop/pop-12.html

Incredimail won't automatically configure Yahoo. Visit the following Incredimail page for preliminary instructions concerning Yahoo:

http://www.incredimail.com/incredimail/help_center/help_article.aspx?article_id=14&lang_id=9&referrer_id=1

Follow the steps given, then return here to configure your account to work with POPFile.

Note: “On April 24, 2002, Yahoo Mail stopped providing free POP3 access or Auto Mail Forwarding. These features are now only available for Yahoo paying customers. If you wish to receive and read your Yahoo Mail using any email client such as Outlook Express, Eudora or IncrediMail, you must purchase a Yahoo Mail Plus subscription or use an application that provides POP3 access to Yahoo Mail such as YPOPs!” ²⁾

“YPOPs! is an open-source initiative that provides free POP3 and SMTP access to your Yahoo Mail account. YPOPs! is available on the Windows and several Unix platforms. This application emulates a POP3/SMTP server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Incredimail, Eudora, Mozilla, Calypso, etc., to download/send email from Yahoo accounts.” ³⁾

Sign up for a YPOPs! account at: http://ypopsemail.com/

To configure YPOPs! to work with POPFile in Incredimail, see the instructions below.

OK – Next we'll configure POPFile to work with Yahoo! Mail Plus using Incredimail. Follow these steps:

(1) Open Incredimail. Click on 'Tools', scroll down and click on 'Accounts…'

(2) Highlight the Yahoo account you configured above and click 'Properties'

(3) On the 'General' tab, you can change the 'Account Name' to your first name, your nickname or any other name as you would like it to appear in your emails.

(4) On the 'Servers' tab, you need to make the following changes. Note the original Incoming Mail Server (under 'Servers Information') and Username (under 'Incoming Mail Server') and write them down.

(5) Change the Incoming Mail Server to:

127.0.0.1

(6) Change the Username to:

pop.mail.yahoo.com:Username

(7) Check 'Remember password'. The values used in step 6 are the original Incoming Mail Server and Username that you wrote down in step 4 above. Notice that a colon ':' is used to separate these two values (this is the default separator used by POPFile; if you have configured POPFile to use a different separator, use that instead).

(8) Next, if you haven't already done so, you need to click 'My server requires authentication' under the 'Outgoing Mail Server' section. Open 'More Settings' and click 'Log on using' with the following:

Username  (same as your Username used to sign in)
password  (same as your Password used to sign in and is case-sensitive)

(9) Check 'Remember password' and click 'OK'

(10) On the 'Advanced' tab, the 'Server Port Numbers' are:

Outgoing Mail (SMTP):  465   This server requires a secure connection (SSL)
Incoming Mail (POP3):  995   This server requires a secure connection (SSL)

(11) Finally, under the 'Delivery' section, the 'Leave a copy of messages on server' is normally unchecked. If, for any reason, you want to leave copies of your messages on your server, check this box. Then, check the box 'Remove from server after' and click 'up or down' the number of days before messages are deleted. This option is a good idea if you don't visit the original server often. Regarding Yahoo, these boxes should probably remain UNCHECKED.

(12) Click 'OK' and then click 'Close' to finish the configuration. Go check your mail!

OK – Next we'll configure POPFile to work with YPOPs! using Incredimail. Follow these steps:

(1) Open Incredimail. Click on 'Tools', scroll down and click on 'Accounts…'

(2) Highlight the Yahoo account you configured above and click 'Properties'

(3) On the 'General' tab, you can change the 'Account Name' to your first name, your nickname or any other name as you would like it to appear in your emails.

(4) On the 'Servers' tab, you need to make the following changes. Note the original Incoming Mail Server (under 'Servers Information') and Username (under 'Incoming Mail Server') and write them down.

(5) Change the Incoming Mail Server to:

127.0.0.1

(6) Change the Outgoing Mail Server to:

127.0.0.1

(7) Change the Username to:

127.0.0.1:123:Username

(8) Check 'Remember password'. The values used in step 7 are the original Incoming Mail Server and Username that you wrote down in step 4 above along with an alternate port number (123). It is necessary to change the port number since POPFile is already using the default port. Notice that a colon ':' is used to separate these values (this is the default separator used by POPFile; if you have configured POPFile to use a different separator, use that instead). For more information on the use of alternate ports, see the following help file: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/wiki/howtos:proxy_chaining

(9) Next, if you haven't already done so, you need to click 'My server requires authentication' under the 'Outgoing Mail Server' section. Open 'More Settings' and click 'Log on using' with the following:

Username  (same as your Username used to sign in)
password  (same as your Password used to sign in and is case-sensitive)

(10) Check 'Remember password' and click 'OK'

(11) On the 'Advanced' tab, the 'Server Port Numbers' are:

Outgoing Mail (SMTP):  25   Leave 'This server requires a secure connection (SSL)' unchecked.
Incoming Mail (POP3):  110   Leave 'This server requires a secure connection (SSL)' unchecked.

(12) Finally, under the 'Delivery' section, the 'Leave a copy of messages on server' is normally unchecked. If, for any reason, you want to leave copies of your messages on your server, check this box. Then, check the box 'Remove from server after' and click 'up or down' the number of days before messages are deleted. This option is a good idea if you don't visit the original server often. Regarding Yahoo/YPOPs!, these boxes should probably remain UNCHECKED.

(13) Click 'OK' and then click 'Close' to finish the configuration. Go check your mail!