If your current Internet Service Provider does NOT allow you to send emails using EPSKED, you may still be able to email schedules, memos and schedule summaries using Yahoo Mail. Until July of 2002, this service was free. It is still very reasonably priced at about $1.67/month (November 2003) as part of the Yahoo Premium Service. This page will describe in detail the steps required to get EPSKED working with Yahoo Premium Service email.

1. Before signing up for Yahoo Premium Service as described below, make sure that connection will be allowed by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Most Internet Service Providers will allow you to send messages using other companies' SMTP outgoing mail servers; some will not. If your ISP has "port 25 blocking", you will not be able to use Yahoo to send email.
2. Follow the instructions at:    http://ordering.yahoo.com/or/ypm/splash?855&Pkgs=us:ym:pop&.osig=zQwKT   to sign up for Yahoo Premium Service (Yahoo! Mail POP Access and Forwarding).
3. Once your Yahoo account is active, open EPSKED to the scheduling program Main Menu and select the Options...Email dropdown menu. In the displayed EPSKED Email Information Manager window you should:

• Enter smtp.mail.yahoo.com as the Server
• Click the Authentication Required checkbox, so that it is checked.
• As User name, enter your Yahoo Mail ID (the portion of your Yahoo email address before the "@yahoo.com")
• Enter (and confirm when requested) the password used for accessing your Yahoo account.

When this process is completed, your EPSKED Email Information Manager window you should appear similar to that shown here (with the username entry instead containing your Yahoo Mail ID (the portion of your Yahoo email address before the "@yahoo.com" .)

Once the above is complete, click the Send test email button (at the bottom of the EPSKED Email Information Manager window) to send an email to the address you entered as your own email address in EPSKED. If no error messages are received, you should receive an email message sent to that address, advising you that you have successfully configured EPSKED to send email messages.

For some common problems, EPSKED will offer suggestions. If you experience continued problems, contact ByteBloc Software at  support@bytebloc.com . Please describe your settings and the nature of the difficulty you are having.