How to open Yahoo, Hotmail or GMail locally ?

I need to know whether there is any way via which I can open Yahoo,
Hotmail or GMail web based mail systems using a thick client (similar
to Outlook Express using POP). I am on Win 98/2000. I thought
Thunderbird did this but it seems to do only POP.

Hotmail had come up with this a while back but I think its long
discontinued. If there is something ideally for Yahoo I would
appreciate if you could let me know.

Thanks,
Kevin.

Re: How to open Yahoo, Hotmail or GMail locally ?

In article <1135622378.496701.38810@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
kejoseph@hotmail.com wrote:

> I need to know whether there is any way via which I can open Yahoo,
> Hotmail or GMail web based mail systems using a thick client (similar
> to Outlook Express using POP). I am on Win 98/2000. I thought
> Thunderbird did this but it seems to do only POP.
>
> Hotmail had come up with this a while back but I think its long
> discontinued. If there is something ideally for Yahoo I would
> appreciate if you could let me know.

Most mail clients do POP and/or IMAP. The free web-based sites don't
tend to offer POP or IMAP because they want to make money off of you
viewing ads.

See http://www.emailman.com/hosting/addresses.html for some utilities
that will act as web to pop gateways.

-Andrew

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Re: How to open Yahoo, Hotmail or GMail locally ?

kejoseph@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> I need to know whether there is any way via which I can open Yahoo,
> Hotmail or GMail web based mail systems using a thick client (similar
> to Outlook Express using POP). I am on Win 98/2000. I thought
> Thunderbird did this but it seems to do only POP.
>
> Hotmail had come up with this a while back but I think its long
> discontinued. If there is something ideally for Yahoo I would
> appreciate if you could let me know.

See FreePOPs (), which you can use for all
three. If you main use is Yahoo! Mail, you can use YPOPs!
(). I use YPOPs! for several Yahoo!
Mail accounts and I'm very satisfied with it.

Re: How to open Yahoo, Hotmail or GMail locally ?

Gmail offers POP. I use it exclusively that way. Go to their website to find
out how.

-Frank

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>
> I need to know whether there is any way via which I can open Yahoo,
> Hotmail or GMail web based mail systems using a thick client (similar
> to Outlook Express using POP). I am on Win 98/2000. I thought
> Thunderbird did this but it seems to do only POP.
>
> Hotmail had come up with this a while back but I think its long
> discontinued. If there is something ideally for Yahoo I would
> appreciate if you could let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin.
>

Re: How to open Yahoo, Hotmail or GMail locally ?

GMail offers pop3 over SSL only
(so the client must support SSL as OE or ThurderBird).
Yahoo offers pop3.
Hotmail offers webdav connection (under outlook express).

Macallan

"Frankster" a écrit dans le message de news:
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> Gmail offers POP. I use it exclusively that way. Go to their website to
> find out how.
>
> -Frank
>
> wrote in message
> news:1135622378.496701.38810@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> I need to know whether there is any way via which I can open Yahoo,
>> Hotmail or GMail web based mail systems using a thick client (similar
>> to Outlook Express using POP). I am on Win 98/2000. I thought
>> Thunderbird did this but it seems to do only POP.
>>
>> Hotmail had come up with this a while back but I think its long
>> discontinued. If there is something ideally for Yahoo I would
>> appreciate if you could let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kevin.
>>
>
>