YahooFrom MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Yahoo also has a free IMAP and SMTP server that officially only supports smartphones and Zimbra email clients. However, the Thunderbird account wizard supports creating a Yahoo IMAP account using the "Yahoo for Mobile" IMAP settings. Create a new account by pressing the Add Mail Account button in Tools -> Account Settings -> Account Actions. It should default to creating a POP account with a SMTP server. If your ISP provides you a Yahoo account it may use mail servers with a different domain and use the full email address as the username. Otherwise configure it as follows (if you're not relying upon the account wizard to do this for you): [edit] POP
You used to be able to use the mail server for your domain (such as pop.mail.yahoo.de) but that broke. A email address in a different domain will still work using pop.mail.yahoo.com. [edit] SMTP
Its also possible to use port 587 with secure connection set to none. [edit] IMAP
If you want a IMAP account you need to press the Manual Config button while creating the account so that you can select IMAP and change the mail server. The IMAP settings used to work fine. However, several people have run into a problem where Thunderbird will only find new mail in the inbox when it starts. [1] If you get new mail later on and press the "Get Mail" button, open the folder, or wait until "Check for new mail every X minutes" is supposed to check for new mail it frequently doesn't find any, or may take a very long time to do so. This doesn't seem to be a version specific problem. Yahoo has multiple mail servers, typically intended for different clients. imap.mail.yahoo.com is the generic mail server while imap.apple.mail.yahoo.com supports iPods and iPhones , zimbra.imap.mail.yahoo.com the Zimbra email client, winmo.imap.mail.yahoo.com Windows Mobile smart phones, imap.N.mail.yahoo.com Nokia smartphones, and android.imap.mail.yahoo.com Android smart phones. There are several other IMAP servers such as imap-ssl.mail.yahoo.com and imap.next.mail.yahoo.com (it doesn't support SSL) but they seem to have been deprecated. If you run into this problem use either android.imap.mail.yahoo.com or zimbra.imap.mail.yahoo.com. If you change the mail server for an existing account that automatically changes the local directory setting (where files are stored). So if you want to do that look at Tools -> Account Settings -> Yahoo -> Server Settings -> Local Directory beforehand, copy it, and then restore it afterwards using the Browse button. This setting is near the bottom of the pane. [edit] IMAP works differentlyIMAP accounts let you access all of the webmail folders. It treats folders on the mail server (remote folders) as if they were local folders, so that you can copy/move messages to/from them. It has a client-server view of the world rather than a download-centric one. While you can use the folders as if they are local folders it actually only downloads the headers (not the messages) to the mail folder on the hard disk. That means whenever you open a message it fetches it again from the mail server, so its a poor choice if you have a slow Internet connection. Thunderbird 3.0 added support for offline copies of the folders. This is enabled by default in Tools -> Account Settings -> Yahoo -> Synchronization & Storage. They are a useful way to backup the folders or to read messages when working offline but they're ignored when you're working online. There is also a optional IMAP cache but it mainly just caches remote images, not messages. IMAP accounts support hiding folders you don't want to see by not subscribing them. Thunderbird may automatically subscribe the inbox, sent, and bulk mail folders when it creates the Yahoo IMAP account. It will also automatically subscribe any new folder you create using Thunderbird. You can right click on the account name in the folder pane, select subscribe, and then choose from the list which folders to display. If you don't like the idea of using subscription to manage what folders you see, uncheck Tools -> Account Settings -> Yahoo -> Server Settings -> Advanced -> "Show only subscribed folders". [edit] The POP3 email server (plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com) does not support UIDL or XTND or XLSTThe Yahoo POP server seems to have periodic problems where it returns a "The POP3 email server (plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com) does not support UIDL or XTND or XLST, which are required to implement the "Leave on Server," "Maximum Message Size," or "Fetch Headers Only" options. To download your mail, turn off these options in the Server Settings for your mail server in the account settings window." error message. This problem occurs with both plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com and pop.mail.yahoo.com. When this occurs you can't download new messages. Sometimes this can be worked around by exiting and restarting Thunderbird. Other times you need to wait until Yahoo fixes the problem with the server (usually takes only a day). [2] [3] Don't uncheck the "leave messages on server" checkbox as that will download all of the messages on the server (old and new) and delete the messages stored on the mail server. [4] [edit] See also
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Temporary problems (fixed) with Yahoo mail server: Yahoo settings: [edit] External Links |
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