Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

coover reviewed v0.9.7.3 on Mar 18, 2009

Yahoo is, of course, aware of this software and is able to react quickly to any changes that allow it to actually work. With this new version, I was able to use it once before it refused to download email. Surprisingly, I am still able to send using (in my case) Outlook 2003).

I certainly cannot blame Yahoo for blocking YPOPs from working. They lose profit for each user that is able to do so...but there are other free webmail providers that do allow free POP3 access, including GMail.

Fallenhorsemen reviewed v0.9.6 Alpha 1 on Apr 11, 2008

This is a great piece of software. I have only been using it for a couple of months. The version I'm using is 0.9.5.3

I am able to send and receive email from my yahoo.com account with this version. I also did not switch to the newer interface for yahoo a few months back because I did not like it. Since I am not as computer literate as a lot of you I guess I will not be changing to YPOP's newest version. You know it's the old (if it's not broke don't fix it thing)

I'm afraid if I switch to the newer version of YPOP's I will start having the problems of sending mail like everyone else is having. I know this is not much help I just wanted people to know that this is a great piece of software and I sure hope that the bugs get worked out for everyone.

I would also say that this is a piece of software that when it is stable enough for the average (dumb) user like myself I would have no problem paying for it if it came to that. Keep up the good work and I hope you can get it all figured out.

DebugMe reviewed v0.9.6 Alpha 1 on Apr 11, 2008

Ehh? Gmail has pop 4 free - why use yahoo?

Umapathy reviewed v0.9.6 Alpha 1 on Apr 10, 2008

Definitely is a best software. I have used this before that can able to bypass the proxy setting where the POP and SMTP ports are blocked. If there are not blocked have a look at my googlepages namely http://tamilgnu.googlepages.com/yahoo!mail probably should help as well.

tangojoker reviewed v0.9.6 Alpha 1 on Apr 10, 2008

Been using this close to 5 years.
i have stuck to yahoo just because of this tool.

kraftworkz reviewed v0.9.6 Alpha 1 on Apr 10, 2008

Been using this App for about 4 years and it has worked flawlessly. Updates are prompt, whenever Yahoo makes changes. I recommend this App to all my friends, family and co-workers.

alohanela reviewed v0.9.5.3 on Jan 31, 2008

I have been using this program for years with my Outlook and it has NEVER failed.

Keep up the great job!

Adrian79 reviewed v0.9.5.3 on Jan 30, 2008

lol@ guy below paying yahoo for what other webmail does for free.

seier reviewed v0.9.5.1 on Sep 5, 2007

When this works it works great. However, it breaks about every 2-3 months and then doesn't work for at least 2 weeks (when Yahoo changes their pages). It was such a hassle to hack POP3 access from Yahoo that I have gladly paid for Yahoo Mail Plus for the past two years. E-mail is just too mission critical to not have a patch turn around time measured in hours.

VictorAnderson reviewed v0.9.5.1 on Sep 5, 2007

I rarely give ANYTHING a 5 out here, but this one has earned it.
Works perfectly, good documentation and instructions, simple to setup.
Good job to the developers!

coover reviewed v0.9.2 on Aug 30, 2007

0.9.2 is obviously a small update. I don't know exactly what changes were made, but the application continues to work seamlessly. A 5.

Perhaps the YPops people could publish a change log.

alohanela reviewed v0.8.8 on Dec 8, 2006

This program is awesome. I recommend it to all my Yahoo mail contacts.

dssdbs: Beware, it does not work if you elect to use Yahoo Mail Beta. That could be the problem. If you chose Beta, you can change back. I'm don't think this issue was addressed in the latest version. The changelog is in their homepage.

coover reviewed v0.8.8 on Dec 8, 2006

I just checked and 0.8.8 works fine.

A 5 as always.

dssdbs reviewed v0.8.7.3 on Nov 25, 2006

v0.8.7.3 is no longer working, guess Yahoo has changed something that broke it.

lion7718 reviewed v0.8.7.3 on Nov 12, 2006

Program works & does what it says.

lhdal reviewed v0.8.7.1 on Nov 2, 2006

This is only for Yahoo access.

And it does that properly in nearly all aspects.

All other one-in-all software has their flaws. They don't hide it either. For example one of the best doesn't support sending mail.

Btw Gmail doesn't need an access software. You can check directly with an e-mail client by setting from Gmail options.

Also many e-mail clients support Hotmail. (anyone still use hotmail?)

jcor1955 reviewed v0.8.7.1 on Nov 1, 2006

I've used this program for years and it's great. You don't need Yahoo Plus to access your e-mail using Outlook, Microsoft Outlook, etc. (By the way Utomo this software is used to access your Yahoo webmail using an e-mail client. It has nothing to do with accessing other e-mail like Gmail, Hotmail, etc).

Bandyt reviewed v0.8.7 on Oct 19, 2006

utomo - You need to spend more time evaluating the program. Go to Tools/Accounts and add your other POP accounts. I'm currently checking 8 accounts under 2 names, only 2 of which are Yahoo accounts.

utomo reviewed v0.8.7 on Oct 18, 2006

It just yahoo pop.
It need to support other webmail, such as gmail, mailcity, hotmail and others.

otherwise people will choose other software which will support more.

lightiv reviewed v0.8.6.2 on Sep 22, 2006

I just found this program and it is absolutely great. All the convience of Outlook without the Yahoo adverts.

Umapathy reviewed v0.8.6.2 on Jul 19, 2006

I have been using yahoo mail for more than 4 years and I can access the yahoo free mails directly through POP and SMTP. (I have signed up with yahoo.co.in and later I moved the server to USA.)I doubt about the pop smtp acees for yahoo free mail. However in my office where I am working POP and SMTP are disabled. ypops is the way to go with. It's really a good program.

coover reviewed v0.8.6 on Jul 17, 2006

Yevaud is absolutely correct. YPOPs! is still the best way for a user to get a FREE Yahoo email account into his or her favorite email clients Inbox. Good work, YPOPs!

yevaud reviewed v0.8.6 on Jul 17, 2006

To the user who asked why this software even existed, since Yahoo provides pop3 access to its email... I believe you must have an enhanced account. According to the software's webpage:

> Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3
> service on 24th April, 2002.

I am not able to verify this for certain since I have had enhanced yahoo mail for a while now..

noBuddy reviewed v0.8.6 on Jul 17, 2006

So, after 5 years I logged in the webpage of my free Yahoo-mail. Just to see the Options (it´s yahoo.de)
They offer POP free Download directly, for free. No words of advanced user or something. Well, so if for you this program is great, give it a 5. For me it´s useless, but I don´t know, if NEW Yahoomails don´t have this free POP3-Access. And, too tired to get a new account, just for testing.
But, read your options, I know people who have POP3 access with their Free-Yahoomail, registered this year. But maybe Yahoo makes differences between users, THAT´S REALLY BAD !

ozkan reviewed v0.8.4 on Feb 22, 2006

Now I'm reading yahoo! mail from TheBat! Perfect. It does what it says. Simple to setup and use.

Joco reviewed v0.8.3 on Nov 19, 2005

Good piece of software. But why bother with Yahoo webmail? Gmail offers POP access for free. The day I switched to Gmail, I didn't look back to Yahoo webmail anymore.

coover reviewed v0.8.3 on Nov 18, 2005

I am now using 0.8.3, which works perfectly. With YPops, Yahoo is free POP3 email.

toe_head2001 reviewed v0.8.3 on Nov 18, 2005

Love this. Runs in the background and I can use my favorite mail client.

BeerStud reviewed v0.7.2 Beta on Mar 5, 2005

I installed this over version .6 without any problems at all. I am very pleased with it.

nLctr reviewed v0.7.2 Beta on Mar 5, 2005

I've been using .7 which worked fine. Updated to .72 and had problems.

Back to .7, still works without a hitch.

alabaster reviewed v0.7.2 Beta on Mar 4, 2005

there is a similare program (freepops), always on sourceforge, but is more general because supports not only yahoo, but also hotmail, gmail, etc.

http://freepops.sourceforge.net/

I don't have tested this software, this is just an info, so I follow actual rating (4.3)

sirhardi reviewed v0.6 on May 24, 2004

Works as it always has
THANKS

marsovac reviewed v0.6 on May 24, 2004

Excellent!

nosbig reviewed v0.4.6 on Jun 16, 2003

i have two yahoo account, one is a yahoo.com address and the other is a yahoo.co.uk address.

yahoo wont let me pop the .com address unless I pay them however the .co.uk address can be popped .... I suspect that yahoo has forgotten to make its subdomain email addys pay !

coldangel reviewed v0.4.6 on Jun 16, 2003

what foobar says is true. it's just pop.mail.yahoo.com
along with your username/password. duh

smith288 reviewed v0.4.6 on Jun 15, 2003

foobar234 - You are probably paying for the service or Yahoo has yet to discover you arent paying.

I love this program. It even wipes out my bulk folder for me to keep my storage usage low. I recommend.

dcarrico reviewed v0.4.6 on Jun 15, 2003

This program works great. It allows you to read your Yahoo!mail in Outlook Express or any other POP3 mail client.

It's PURPOSE is to give you SMTP and POP3 access to your Yahoo!mail account without *PAYING* for the add-on service. If your PAYING for additional storage from Yahoo! then you do not need this utility.

foobar234 reviewed v0.4.5 on May 14, 2003

Erm, I already use both Outlook and POP Peeper to access my Yahoo account. All I did was follow the instructions found here : http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-05.html.

I have been doing so for as long as I can remember...

(I gave it a 3 not because it is bad - but because it has no purpose... at least not for me.)

Grandpas reviewed v0.4.5 on May 12, 2003

Good program and happy to see a new feature which allows to hide the icon from the taskbar. I'm waiting for an option to run yahoopop as a NT service ... during this time, I'm keeping Mrpostman (run as a service with Wrapper).

mettridge reviewed v0.4.4 on Apr 23, 2003

An excellent program.
I’ve been looking for a program that does this for ages.
I can’t fault it, even on its highest security settings it still downloads from Yahoo far quicker than the built-in hotmail checker in Outlook Express.
It could do with some work on the help file though, as I feel the information for setting it up to work with OE are a bit hard to follow (sequences wrong, etc) and could confuse a novice.
Apart from that I’ve not come across any problems with it so far.

jsaravana reviewed v0.4.3 on Apr 7, 2003

Yahoo Pops is really good s/w. I get all my yahoo messages in my outlook... coming to web2pop there are lots of isses..
1. its not free. 2. doesnt support hotmail anymore. 3. always duplicates my yahoo messages
4. always downloads messages from yahoo even if i set it to leave messages on the server.
i'll give 5 * to yahoo pops.

Aires reviewed v0.4.2 on Mar 30, 2003

I don't know why this took so long to update from 0.4.0, but it's been a long time in coming - and it works just as well as 0.3.9?! Anyway, it works and lets me check my Yahoo mail with Outlook, rather than having to log into 4 different accounts on the web. 5 stars! ;-)

Wet-wired reviewed v0.4.2 on Mar 30, 2003

Is this seriously supposed to be a real program? It couldnt find ANYTHING and leaves almost everything to be desired when compared to other P2P programs. Sorry, but you really should spend some time on a program to make it worth testing before you release it.

Kompressor reviewed v0.4.2 on Mar 29, 2003

The only difference I can see between YahooPOPs and Web2Pop is YahooPOPs is limited to only Yahoo. I’d give it 1 star for that reason, but I’ll give it 2 because it’s free. Although it’s a great program if all you use is Yahoo, but there are other free web mail services out there that are much better than Yahoo. That’s where Web2Pop comes in. I give Web2Pop 5 stars, not just because it’s a good program but because you’re not limited to just one service, and you can use multiple services at the same time if you wish.

SlowNeasy reviewed v0.4.2 on Mar 29, 2003

Free and better than Web2Pop IMO.

kevin2446 reviewed v0.4.2 on Mar 28, 2003

No Problems. Gives me control of my yahoo account again.

ook reviewed v0.4.2 on Mar 28, 2003

It works! Good deal!

PS - just because Web2pop and other products do the same thing that this product does, doesn't mean this deserves a bad score! Doh! Also, this is freeware, and Web2pop is not free!

Practice reviewed v0.4.2 on Mar 28, 2003

Nothing new here. Web2Pop has been able to do this for years, and it works with all Web mail services, not just Yahoo.

SlowNeasy reviewed v0.4.0 on Nov 14, 2002

Great utility! I use it in conjunction with MailWasher (also free) to check (aka delete spam) my pop3, hotmail and yahoo accounts.

Piaf reviewed v0.3.8 on Nov 6, 2002

Works fine, and help me save time. Now available in version 3.9

sirhardi reviewed v0.3.8 on Oct 7, 2002

YEP

works as advertised.

5 Statrz for what it does....GREAT JOB

patmc7 reviewed v0.3.7 on Oct 6, 2002

0.3.7 wasn't working for me so I downloaded 0.3.8 from the website and it seems to work. I also discovered that the option to configure for extra folders is case sensitive (so watch that first letter).

mendivil reviewed v0.3.7 on Oct 3, 2002

Fantastic!! Now if it only had an option to hide the icon or to load into memory on demand, but otherwise a slick piece of work!

bsf reviewed v0.3.7 on Oct 3, 2002

HOLY GEEZ!!!!!!

this is more than I expected.. SERIOUSLY!!! OMG!!!

lordcyber reviewed v0.3.7 on Oct 3, 2002

great program!!

nosbig reviewed v0.3.7 on Oct 2, 2002

works a treat and is very easy to set up now i can use my yahoo.com account again with out having to go though the hassle of the web interface ... even better its freeware!
well worth 5 *