How Do I Forward Mail Stored in Outlook Express to My Yahoo Account?

[Brainscan701]

HI Gang,

Some years ago I had an AOL account. I got rid of it. Before I got rid of it I used a product called Epreserver to convert all my email from my AOL account to Outlook Express for safe keeping.

Now whenever I have to retrieve an old message out of AOL archives, like now, I have to reinstall Outlook Express and use E-Preserver to convert the original AOL messages to messages Outlook Express can read.

Its quite a bit of work for one message. If I could get Outlook Express to send them all to my Yahoo Account it would be alot easier.

However I can barely get Outlook Express to work. I have DSL now and Earthlink as a backup email account. I have Yahoo Premium and also Nocharge. I also have a GMail accont I never use.

However Outlook Express only seems to know about Pop3. I haven't the slightest idea what Pop3 is or how to use it. Everytime I try I get sending errors.

Can anyone tell me how to set up Outlook Express so I can forward email to my Yahoo account?

So far the error I get says my sending account is not valid.

I also have a 56k modem I can use with my Nocharge free account.

[larns23]

so you want to move your saved email from outlook to your yahoo account? or do you want to have the emails redirected to yahoo when they come into outlook? sorry i didn't understand your problem completely

[Miz]

Click Here to open an Earthlink support page that describes how to set up Outlook Express to use their POP3 service.

[giradman]

I'm also somewhat confused as to 'how' you want to go about getting this e-mail to your Yahoo account from OE on your computer?

I have Road Runner cable - they have a web mail server w/ my specific username; it is a POP3/SMTP (POP3 = Post Office Protocol, v. 3); I have set up my Yahoo account to 'retrieve' my e-mails from this address - if this might be 'what' you want to do, then enter your Yahoo account and select 'options' - under 'management' you have a variety of choices for sending & retrieving e-mail from POP accounts. OE is a POP3/SMTP program, i.e. you'll need the servers names (assume these are from your DSL ISP account?) You will need to enter your OE username + the POP server that OE is using.

If these suggestions and/or those by others do not work, please reply back to this post - there should be a solution - good luck!

[Brainscan701]

Originally Posted by giradman

I'm also somewhat confused as to 'how' you want to go about getting this e-mail to your Yahoo account from OE on your computer?

I have Road Runner cable - they have a web mail server w/ my specific username; it is a POP3/SMTP (POP3 = Post Office Protocol, v. 3); I have set up my Yahoo account to 'retrieve' my e-mails from this address - if this might be 'what' you want to do, then enter your Yahoo account and select 'options' - under 'management' you have a variety of choices for sending & retrieving e-mail from POP accounts. OE is a POP3/SMTP program, i.e. you'll need the servers names (assume these are from your DSL ISP account?) You will need to enter your OE username + the POP server that OE is using.

If these suggestions and/or those by others do not work, please reply back to this post - there should be a solution - good luck!

Hi Gang,

I'm sorry I didn't make myself clearer. I want to take my mail in Outlook Express an stick them in Yahoo Mail. I guess my problem is that I don't understand pop3. All I get is error messages when I try to use it. I will try doing what you said and get back to you.

thanks,

Brainey

[Brainscan701]

Hi Gang,

I followed your instructions and got this error message:

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Subject '', Account: 'POP.mail.yahoo.com', Server: 'smtp.mail.yahoo.com', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html.', Port: 465, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 451, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brainey