Question: I want to sign up for a free email account such as Yahoo Mail, Microsoft Hotmail or Google Gmail but I want to access my account through Microsoft Outlook. Can I do this?
Answer: Yes, you can access email accounts from Yahoo Microsoft and Google through Outlook. However you may need to upgrade your Yahoo account to do this. Upgrading the free account will cost you in the neighborhood of $20 per year and provide you with what is known as POP access so that you can access your mail with email software such as Outlook, Outlook Express, or Eudora.
Another alternative is switching your email account to Gmail which is an email service from Google. Gmail has a good user interface, provides POP3 access, and gives you 2.5 GB of online storage. On top of those features it is Free! To get a Gmail account go to google.com and click on the “More” link above the search box. Locate the “Communicate, Show & Share” section and click on Gmail.
Be sure to see our other post on Gmail shortcuts – Gmail – 45 Timesaving Keyboard Shortcuts.
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I have an sbcglobal.net email account that I access via Yahoo.com. I recently changed my email address and was getting no obscene messages until just the last couple of weeks. How do I filter out these messages?
I recently noticed that messages that I want to come into my regular email (sbcglobal.net) are being channeled into my spam file. How to address?
Spam continues to be a real pain. Email accounts from sbcglobal.net, att.net, pacbell.net and yahoo.com all use some variation of Yahoo’s email program. I’m not sure what might have changed recently to generate more spam for you but there are many different ways that spammers can get an email address and add it to their lists.
You can block spam at a couple different points: on the mail server, in your case Yahoo/SBC/ATT, and also on your computer system if you are downloading your mail into a local program such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or Microsoft Mail on Vista.
For your SBCGlobal/Yahoo account you can log in to your account and on the top, right-hand side you will see a link with a drop-down for “Options.”
Select “Mail Options” from the list and this will display the “General” page.
On the “General” Page select “Spam” from the list in the left-hand column.
On the “Spam” page you can adjust your settings in both the SpamGuard and the Blocked Email Addresses sections.
Make sure the Control SpamGuard box is checked. See the other options for your own needs. You can also add specific email addresses to the Blocked Addresses list.
Yahoo Mail and the mail providers such as SBCGlobal & ATT also offer customers the option to upgrade to their SpamGuard Plus service which offers additional spam-blocking options. Check with your service provider (AT&T/SBC) for specific details on features and price.
Remember, one of the key problems with spam beyond the annoyance factor is the possibility of your system getting infected from a malicious email. See the post on Internet Security at: Keep Your System Protected
thanks for doing yahoo mail