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#IMAIL YAHOO MAIL MAC OS X#

Perhaps you can help with the following too: Posted by paulschreiber FebruFebruPosted in mac, public service announcement Tags: email, free, imap, macosx, mail, yahoo Post navigation Then select Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For > Trash: Then select Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For > Drafts: Once that’s done, you need to identify four mailboxes as special: Draft(s), Trash, Sent and Bulk Mail (Junk). Yeah, you whose friends email them photos instead of posting them to Flickr. Depending on the amount of email you have, it could take an hour or more to download it all. Besides Junk, check “Store Junk messages on the server.”

Finally, we need to set up the Junk mail folder.

The bad news: it thinks it’s a POP account, and has set the port to 995.

The good news: Mail has recognized this as not just an IMAP account, but a Yahoo IMAP account.

Enter your username ( full yahoo email address) and password and click Continue: If you do this, you have to click Show Certificate, check the “Always trust…” checkbox, click connect and enter your Mac OS username and password. Since Yahoo’s wildcard certificate is for *. While this also works, you’ll get an SSL error:

Note: most of the instructions on the internet tell you to enter .com.

On the next screen, select IMAP from the popup and enter .com as the server name.

But you’re not a paying Yahoo Mail Plus customer, and don’t have access to the POP server.

Mail recognizes this as a Yahoo account.

You’ll see the first pane of the wizard.

#IMAIL YAHOO MAIL MAC OS X#

Step-by-step guide to configuring Mac OS X Mail for Yahoo You can have IMAP access to your Yahoo Mail account.

And it’s highly unlikely Apple wrote some sort of custom HTTP-Mail transport just for them.

IMAP? Unavailable.īut then she hands me her new iPod touch…with her Yahoo mail account working just fine. The conventional wisdom says you can’t do this. Once everything was up and running, she inquired about adding their Yahoo account to Mail. A few weeks ago, I was helping my cousins set up their new iMac.