Yahoo Mail Free POP access

For a long time, Yahoo allowed POP access only for Premium accounts, so people used custom applications, like Y!Pops to have this feature. This is not longer the case. To enable the POP3 access for your free yahoo mail account, all you have to change is the Preferred Content, setting it to Yahoo Asia.

STEP-1: 

Your country/language setting – what Yahoo! Mail calls your “Preferred Content” – can be adjusted by following these steps:

1. Click on your user name which is located at the top of your Yahoo! Mail page, next to the Yahoo! Mail logo. This will open a pull-down menu.
2. Click Account.
3. This will open a new window in which you will be prompted to re-enter your password. You will then be re-directed to your Yahoo! ID Card.
4. Under "Account Settings" in your Yahoo! ID Card, click the Set Language, site and time zone link.
5. Click on the link next to Regional Site and Language and from there you can select from a list that best meets your content needs.
6. Click Save.

ADDITIONAL:
Are you seeing garbled characters in a non-US-language email? If so, you can change Yahoo! Mail’s character encoding setting. It’s easy! Here’s how:

1. Select the message with garbled characters/
2. In the toolbar that appears above the message, click on the gear icon on the far right, and then select Language Encoding from the pull-down menu that appears.
3. From the list that appears, select the encoding that matches the message’s content.

Note: Only one character encoding set may be viewed at a time. And in this case, changing your browser’s encoding setting will not work.

STEP-2:

Enable POP access and change settings:

• Click the Options menu in the upper-left corner, and select Mail Options from the pull-down list.
• From the list on the left, click POP & Forwarding, then Set up or edit POP & Forwarding.

STEP-3:

Client Settings: Is there a problem with your email client settings? Please make sure that you've configured your email client with these settings:

• Incoming Mail (POP3) Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com (Use SSL, port: 995)
• Outgoing (SMTP) Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com (Use SSL, port: 465, use authentication)
• Account Name/Login Name: your Yahoo! ID (your email address without the "@yahoo.com")
• Email Address: your Yahoo! Mail address (e.g., user@Yahoo!.com)

Now you can read your mail from any POP client; I use Gmail "Check mail using POP3" feature to read mail in Gmail and it has all the settings I need already in it.