Yahoo mail and .Mac

Here's the problem: when I'm on a web page and click on a "Contact Us" or "Send us an E-mail" link, my computer opens the Mail app. and I get a window prompting me to set up a .Mac account. I use Yahoo mail (the free kind) and don't really feel the need to set up a .Mac account (you have to pay for those, right?).
I downloaded "Yahoo Mailer" from macupdate.com. This software redirects from the link to a blank "Compose" window on my Yahoo mail. That part works fine, but the "To" box is empty, when it should have the recipient's e-mail address. At this point, I'm not able to contact anyone who has just a "Send us an e-mail" link. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

When creating an account with the Mail application, .Mac is selected as the account type by default but it isn't required to purchase a .Mac account in order to use the Mail application to access an email account.
The Mail applications supports the following account types:
.Mac (which is really an IMAP account and behaves in the same way)
IMAP
POP
Exchange
But Yahoo prevents accessing a free Yahoo account with any email client such as the Mail.app but you can access a Yahoo Mail Plus or paid account as a POP account with an email client such as Mail which costs only $20/yr.
To each his/her own but I prefer using an email client such as Mail over webmail access which is primarily designed for accessing an email account when away from your computer using another computer besides your own with internet access.

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smtp.broadband.rogers.com
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