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It may also take some time to download all of your mail. You may need to restart Thunderbird for all of your Yahoo! Mail folders toĪppear. Thunderbird is now configured for Yahoo! Mail. At the bottom of the account list, click theĪccount Actions drop-down and click Add MailĮnter your name (the name that you want displayed in the From: address of theĮmail you send), your email address and your password, and click In researching this article, I set up Thunderbird to access my Yahoo! MailĪccount via IMAP and it just worked. Yahoo! to tell whether mail is being requested by a desktop or a mobile device.Īs a result, it works in more places than just mobile. Not guaranteed to work everywhere or with every program.īut then again, it’s actually not all that easy for a service provider like Yahoo! Mail and IMAP … and Thunderbirdīecause Yahoo!’s support of IMAP is intended to support mobile devices, it’s When supported, IMAP on a PC-based email program can download a copy of all You can actually see Yahoo! Mail IMAP settings in Yahoo!’s own help center. The “catch” in our scenario, however, is that Yahoo!’s support of IMAP is IMAP is simply a kind of locally-cached window onto your Message on your device, it’s deleted on the server mark it as read on yourĭevice and it’s marked read on the server move a message to a folder on yourĭevice and it’s moved to that folder on the server. Then, as you read and dispose of your email, the actions that you take in yourĮmail program are reflected back up to the email server: if you delete a IMAP, but unlike POP3, it’s also left on your mail server. The email that’s kept on your mail server. Messages when you “download” your email, it acts more like a mirror of

IMAP differs from POP3 in that rather that transferring your

IMAP is a protocol, like POP3, that is used by email programs to access your It’s not widely known, but Yahoo! Mail supports IMAP, apparently To backup Yahoo! Mail, you can install or use a desktop email program toĪccess your email using IMAP to download a copy to your PC. It may seem a tad intimidating at first, but it’s well worth it – without a backup, you’re at risk of losing everything. So, we have to go through some slightly unofficial back doors. They haveĪ nice UI and it’s a reasonably good service, but they provide no officially This is one reason why I rarely recommend Yahoo! as an email provider.