Eureka! I've cracked it. Go into your Yahoo mail and click 'options' top
right. Then click 'pop access and forwarding'. Then click the button next to
'web & pop access' and then click 'save' top left. Incoming mail
address=pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk and outgoing=smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk. next go to
Windows Mail and all the mail you can read on Yahoo will load. This also
worked for email from my t-mobile phone( in the UK)

"Al" wrote:

> I have exactly the same problem as Mike. Yahoo do give POP3 and SMTP
> addresses along with SSL,port numbers but Windows mail rejects with error
> messages
>
> "Dave" wrote:
>
> > Windows Mail cannot access web-mail accounts, only POP & IMAP.
> > If you have the free Yahoo email account, I think in the US & Canada, you
> > don't have access to their POP servers. You have to pay for the premium
> > service to get to use the POP servers.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:493D318A-6880-4616-B7DE-EF42D1AE1378@microsoft.com...
> > > How do I configure Windows Mail (Vista Home Premium Ed.) to work with
> > > Yahoo
> > > web-based mail?
> > >
> > > I understand nothing of IMAP, STMP, or POP3...that's all greek to me. I
> > > have
> > > attempted to do this on my own using jnstructions that I obtained from
> > > Yahoo.
> > > However, these instructions unfortunately are for MS Outlook 98 and 2000.
> > > Has anyone had problems with Yahoo or has anyone using Yahoo with Windows
> > > Vista Home Premium ed. successfully accessed this programme? Please, help
> > > me
> > > out here to explain in simple terms how to correctly set it up?
> > >
> > > Thank you for your assistance!
> > >
> >