Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:55:08 -0700
David Guntner <davidg@akaMail.net> wrote:
> Patrick Bartek grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> >
> >> From: Dave Thayer <debian1311420.dmthayer@recursor.net>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >>>
> >>> How? What MUA did you use? When I initially set up my Yahoo
> >>> Mail accounts (I have several)--this was years ago--there was no
> >>> option with the free accounts for POP3 or IMAP. It was
> >>> specifically said that if you wanted it, you could, [snip]
> >>
> >> Oddly enough, while Yahoo! charges for POP access, they enable
> >> IMAP access on the free accounts. I'm guessing that's for mobile
> >> device support. Icedove knows the right thing to do, or look up
> >> the instructions on the Yahoo! help pages.
>
> Yup. That's a nice loophole they created that works out well for those
> of us using Thunderbird or other MUAs. :-)
>
> > Okay. I found the Yahoo IMAP help page. The POP help still states
> > you need a "for pay" Yahoo Mail Plus account, but no mention of that
> > for IMAP. I'll run a test. I already have Sylpheed on this system,
> > and it is both POP or IMAP compatible. SSL, too.
>
> Yahoo supports SSL, so no worries there. I've got it set for
> imap.mail.yahoo.com on port 993 for SSL/TLS incoming and
> smtp.mail.yahoo.com on port 465 for SSL/TLS outgoing. Works like a champ.
Wow - this works! Now I can finally go back to my long neglected Yahoo!
account and try to clean it up.
> --Dave
Celejar
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