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Use of Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts with the ClickUni E-mail widget

The ClickUni E-mail widget does not support Hotmail or free Yahoo! Mail accounts directly at the present time. This is due to limitations imposed by Hotmail and Yahoo.

If you use Hotmail you can configure your account to forward your mail to another e-mail account and then use your ClickUni page to check this account. If you have a university or work e-mail account you could use that, or alternatively you can register for a free GMail account at www.gmail.com. See below for instructions on how to do this.

If you use Yahoo! Mail you can upgrade to a Mail Plus account, for which you have to pay a small subscription fee (currently £11.99/$19.99 per year). This gives you the ability to use or configure forwarding to another account like with Hotmail. See http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/index.html for more information about Yahoo! Mail Plus.

How to configure forwarding in Hotmail:

1. Go to your Hotmail inbox
2. Click Options in the top right of the screen.
3. Click Forward mail to another e-mail account
4. Type the e-mail address to which you want to forward your Hotmail e-mails

How to add a Yahoo! Mail Plus account to your ClickUni page:

1. Add the ClickUni E-mail widget to your page by going to http://clickuni.com/add?wid=938
2. Click Edit in the widget's title bar and select Add account
3. Choose Yahoo! Mail Plus
4. Enter your Yahoo! ID (your e-mail address without the @yahoo.com part) and password

More details:

The ClickUni E-mail widget can access your e-mail account using the standard POP or IMAP protocols, and has additional support for GMail which provides its own interfaces to access to your account from external programs. The widget has full support for secure connections and you can use it to connect to almost all mail servers and accounts. Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail free accounts are unique in that they provide only web-based interfaces to access your account, without support for the standard POP or IMAP protocols. This is a business decision arising from the fact that their e-mail accounts are free.