What is an incoming mail server?

What is the yahoo incoming and outgoing mail server mail server and also what are there port numbers to confi

• incoming mail server are called "pop3" and outgoing is called "smtp" mail server

• Answer:

  depends what country you're in and what type of yahoo account, but as a general rule they are: incoming (pop3) - pop.mail.yahoo.com (or pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk) outgoing (smtp) - smtp.mail.yahoo.com (or smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk). Before this will work, you have to change your options in your main yahoo email (via the web) to enable pop access by remote. This can be a very tricky issue and it's only through a lot of playing around I managed to get this right - it applies both to outlook and outlook express. http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/original/manage/pop-28.html The link above contains most of the answers you need, however, pay special attention to the last part about SSL and port 587 for outgoing messages. You shouldn't have any problems with incoming. Try using SSL and port 465 for SMTP in the first instance, if that still doesn't work, try removing SSL and setting the port to 587. IMPORTANT: SSL on 587 will not work. If SSL - use 465 If not SSL - use 587 Also make sure that you've checked the box that says 'my outgoing server requires authentication :) I missed that for 15 mins last month!