Basically Yahoo! Mail is a web- based mail which uses SMTP whereas Outlook Express understands POP. So for translate your web-based Yahoo! Mail account into a POP account which Outlook Express understands, there are many tools . Among the smartest of these tools are IzyMail and YPOPs!.

Access Yahoo! Mail Account with Outlook Express Using YPOPs!

• Install YPOPs! and make sure it is running.
• Open Outlook Express.
• Select Tools | Accounts… from the menu in Outlook Express.
• Click Add and select Mail….
• Type your name.
• Click Next >.
• Enter your Yahoo! Mail address (”hmmzl34@yahoo.com”, for example).
• Click Next > again.
• Make sure POP3 is selected under My incoming mail server is a ___ server..
• Enter “localhost” under Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server:.
  If “localhost” does not work, try “127.0.0.1″ instead.

• Type “localhost” under Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: as well.
  If “localhost” does not work, again try “127.0.0.1″ instead.

• Click Next >.
• Type your Yahoo! Mail user name under Account name:.
  The user name is your Yahoo! Mail address ajay”@yahoo.com”.

• Enter your Yahoo! Mail password under Password:.
• Click Next >.
• Click Finish.
• Highlight localhost in the Internet Accounts window.
• Click Properties.
• Type “Yahoo! Mail” under Mail Account.
• Click OK.
• Click Close.

Same can be done using IzyMail.

Are you really looking for some way or tip to export your Outlook address book into another application ? Microsoft Outlook 97 and Outlook 98 doesn’t comes with a method to export the address book to another application if you want to - but if you are using Outlook Express 4.x - here’s what you have to do :

• Open Outlook Express 4.x (if you don’t already have it, install Explorer 4.x full version)
• Select “File | Import | Address Book…” from the main menu
• Select “Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book”
• Click “Import” and click “Close” once the importing is finished To export the address book:
• Select “File | Export | Address Book…” from the main menu
• Select “Text File (Comma Separated Values)”
• Click “Export”
• Type a file name in the “Save exported file as” input box.

  For example type, “C:\OutlookAd.CSV”

• Click “Next”
• Optionally select the fields you wish to export and click “Finish”
• Click “Close” once the exporting is completed

Now you are ready to import the exported Outlook address book into the program where you were trying to export to.CSV text files are somethign which are supported by almost all programs with the abolity to import information from external programs.