june 23, 2006 : steve kong : 4 comment(s)
Hrm.
JR is the man. He found this interesting factoid...
It looks like you can access your Yahoo! Mail via IMAP. Well, the thing says "Yahoo! Mobile", but uh, I think Thunderbird will work too.
Give it a whirl.
Comments
Well, it works with Thunderbird, though. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem possible to encrypt the password. And the server lacks a lot of interesting extensions. But it's a really great step from Yahoo!.
Hopefully, they'll implement the Lemonade IMAP extensions optimized for mobile environements http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/lemonade-charter.html
kael
June 24, 2006 @ 11:19 AM
Yea, it's an awesome step in the right direction. POP mail access is very 90s and IMAP + webmail is the future. I want my mail in a central location and I want to access it with a client of my choice.
June 24, 2006 @ 01:04 PM
I tried on a treo, thunderbird, outlook and couldnt get it working. Are there specific settings you have to do to get imap from yahoo?
thanks...
gene
June 26, 2006 @ 05:27 AM
Looks like the service has been stopped for the time being.
June 26, 2006 @ 07:55 AM