Yahoo! Just enabled IMAP!

[forgot]

Server settings are:

imap.mail.yahoo.com
smtp.mail.yahoo.com

I'm a Mail Plus subscriber, so I'm not sure if this will work for everyone for free, but I'll test it out in a little bit. Also, this has happened before, and didn't last long. Maybe Yahoo! is listening to people other than iPhone users...

[skoenig]

Lo.. Nice discovery forgot!

imap is mighty handy as long as you don't have to administer it...which you don't with Yahoo!

~ Steph

[forgot]

Just an FYI, it does not support the IDLE command. This is dissapointing becuase this is what Chatter uses to "push" IMAP email.

[LotusLord]

Just tried it, you don't need a Y+ account to use it. Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[forgot]

Hmmm...very interesting. Especially after I just re-up'd my Mail Plus account so I could have POP access.......

Hopefully this is just the begining, and IDLE will be supported soon as well. As far as I can tell there has been no official annoucement of sorts, so who knows....

[TazUk]

I was going to ask about the idle command, guess I don't need to now

[lizoliz]

Hi forgot,

Thanks for the very useful information. I have a yahoo account(free) and love it. I also have chattermail (trial), which I really like. I was just about to give it up because, without access to push on my yahoo chattermail was not totally worth it. But then I read your post and quickly reinstalled it with NG Undo, created my yahoo account and voila! I have my yahoo mail on my treo 650. I don't care that it does not support the idle command, because I simply set it to quicksync in 200 min. intervals (with me actually checking my yahoo mail randomly). Just to have push access is well worth it. This is a lot quicker than going to the web via my treo 650 and signing into yahoo. So thanks again for the very useful information.

[kocoman]

I never got it to work. I am on Yahoo mail free version
It says connection refused.

Yahoo! Mail getting free IMAP access?
Posted Jun 24th 2006 12:27PM by Chris Price
According to this post on Yahoo! Next, the Yahoo! Mobile folks are testing some new feature that get you directly from your cellphone to some of their services - IM, Mail, Address Book.

Of particular interest is that Mail access is done via IMAP and appears to work on any IMAP email client - including Thunderbird. Non-web client access has been a Plus feature for a long time now - and is arguably why so many people subscribe to the upgrade.

Just plug the following into your client and use your Y! Account \ Password to access it:
IMAP: imap.next.mail.yahoo.com
SMTP: smtp.next.mail.yahoo.com
Using these settings, you can access free accounts with a full client (I never upgraded after Yahoo! Plus was discontinued) - does this mean that the feature will become more generally available in the future?

[Update] As JR mentioned in the Comments - don't all go IMAP crazy and crash the servers. He suggests setting your client to poll every hour.

Alternatively - just use the Y! Mail Beta - real-time messages and most of the functionality of a desktop client, but in your browser.

[LotusLord]

I agree that the web mail beta is great, on the desktop.

But I have several yahoo accounts, and I want them all in one place, and sync'd between all my devices, with out logging in and out every time.

This works fantastically, and I'd gladly pay 5-10 dollars a year for this access, but free is even better.

[forgot]

I think Yahoo! was messing with their IMAP servers yesterday. Sometimes it would support IDLE, sometimes it would not. I'm still messing with/learning Chatter, but with the "Go Online" funtion enabled I would get test emails within seconds of being sent. Very nice.