Yahoo Mail Doesn't Work, What Do I Do?

I've been trying for hours now to try and get MAIL to work with my Yahoo Mail account. After heavy researching I found out that it will not work unless I use the POP Yahoo thing which costs $20 a year. Not worth it to me.
Then after more research I saw sites that has downloadable programs, all legal, which allows Yahoo mail to show up on MAIL on my new Macbook. I tried it and still not working.
I'm asking here now cause i dont know what to do. What options do I have? Get an email account from somewhere else? I heard google mail supports MAIL with Macs. But I love my Yahoo email, i use it daily often receving 50 or so important emails.
Any tips or advice would be great appreciated. Thanks

umm...i tried 2 i think.
one was called freepops something
the other was simply pop3
free downloadable from their site. it states the incoming server number which is something like 127.0.0.1 but its not working. after looking at past message boards i see im not the only one with that problem.
im new to the mac so...

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