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.
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