Question by Steven Y. Ma: Yahoo IMAP Settings for Outlook?
Does anyone have a confirmed solution to access Yahoo Mail Plus (or Yahoo Mail free) via IMAP using Microsoft Outlook?
I have been doing quite a bit of research online and it seems like over the years there have been ongoing struggles by both free and paying customers to access Yahoo email using IMAP (instead of POP3 which is currently available to Yahoo Mail Plus) in order to access, manage, and most importantly synchronize their Yahoo emails via multiple sources/devices (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Blackberry, iPhone, web based email portal). See below links for some of the more detailed discussions:
http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/yahoo_mail_free_imap
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=325139
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=322877
There has been mention of using SSL to access an exisiting IMAP server or some kind of alternative non-public IMAP server, but all non-confirmed, and none seems to work for Outlook. Currently only Blackberry and iPhone seems to have access to Yahoo email via IMAP, which directly syncs with the email server.
I’m not trying to complain about Yahoo being the only email provider to not provide customary IMAP access for Outlook, per market standard. But I would like to confirm – for many other there similar to myself – if possible, the steps to access Yahoo emails (either for premium paying or free account) via IMAP using Microsoft Outlook.
Thanks!
Best answer:
Answer by Joe
From what I understand, Yahoo only allows client IMAP for mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Blackberry) and for Zimbra. So unless you like Zimbra, you won’t get desktop/laptop IMAP for a client.
Now, I’ve never tried this, but there is a way to spoof Yahoo into thinking that your desktop/laptop client is a mobile client. The way Yahoo’s mail servers identify a mobile client is that mobile clients send a non-standard IMAP command before login. The command is: “ID (“GUID” “1″)”. (Desktop client send “ID (“GUID” “0″)”.
You could try to modify your email client to send the “1″ rather than the “0″. I have no idea how to do this though. I do know, however, that a version of Mozilla Thunderbird exists that sends this command out of the box.
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