No more free Yahoo POP forwarding

[vagpap]

Hi there

I just got an e-mail stating:

Effective April 24, 2002, Yahoo! Mail will no longer provide free POP3 Access or Auto Mail Forwarding to Yahoo! Delivers subscribers. Effective April 24, 2002, Yahoo! Mail will no longer provide free POP3 Access or Auto Mail Forwarding to Yahoo! Delivers subscribers.

If you would like to continue using Mail Forwarding or POP3 Access, please subscribe to our improved package that allows you to:

Use Outlook, Eudora, or another POP3 client to access and manage your Yahoo! Mail.
Automatically forward your Yahoo! Mail to another email account -- even another Yahoo! address!
Send larger attachments, now up to 5MB instead of the free 1.5MB limit.
Send email without the Yahoo! promotional text at the bottom.*

Sign up today and SAVE 33%


Subscribe before April 24th and get the first year of service for just $19.99. That's 33% off the regular service fee of $29.99.

Remember, if you do not subscribe by April 24, 2002, you will no longer be able to access your Yahoo! Mail messages by POP or at another email address.


Sincerely,
The Yahoo! Mail Team

What happened to free services?
Any comments?
Any other free e-mail servers that provide free POP3 mail forwarding?

Thanks
Vangelis

[angelcat]

I had just heard about this trouble with Yahoo mail tonight. I do have a mail service that has been working quite nicely, the address for it is:

http://www.totalise.net/

It does have Pop3 offered.............

Good luck!

[vass0922]

does email.com still run?

personally I dont use pop3, I use mail in all sorts of machines and OS's and I dont want to bother downloading all the messages everytime Istart up a new OS not to mention setting it up every freakin' time lol
So I just stick with the webpage
everybody is using subscription services nowadays, since advertising used to rule the world and now it barely pays for minor bills

[deltaf508]

I just got the message the other day as well and I am dissapointed too. I use the POP3 yahoo stuff all the time. It's a shame they have to start charging for it. I could even see $10 / year or something similar - but $29.99. Sheeesh, that seems a bit High just for POP mail forwarding. I don't know what I'm going to do yet.

Gary

[snaggle]

Why is it all these free E-mail provider's like Hotmail, Yahoo and quite a few others are suddenly money sucking people?

They have been providing free e-mail's for over five, six years all of sudden they start charging people for what ever they think they can charge you for!

___/Snaggle\___

[mickwish]

Yeah, I use Yahoo for some accounts to mamange agroup listserv, and I forard to my work account so I can keep tabs on 'em. This is a royal pain now, so I'll have to have a look at some other free email progs which will forward.

Yahoo is one of the biggest free email things form what I've heard, so this could put a dent in their user base

[TOAD6147]

Come on guys! $30 a year for crap's sake. That's cheap!

[bubbins]

hello i noticed this discussion today and would just like to add that yahoo.co.uk is still doing pop and forwarding....

its strange that they would only change it on yahoo.com

anyways

thanks

ellie

[RobRich]

Ellie, welcome to TechIMO!

As to Yahoo! email, the decision was likely based upon the number of users for a specific top level domain.

Anyway, I pay for Yahoo! Mail.

[erhan28]

What about Gmail??? for pop 3 ???
lol did we forget this service.
I have yahoo account and it is a shame but i never use pop3 so no loss sleep over it.