Ray_Net wrote:
> Arnie Goetchius wrote on 21-03-17 23:05:
>> Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
>>> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 23:54:54 +0100, /Ray_Net/:
>>>
>>>> I did not understand why Yahoo force the IMAP interface killing the POP
>>>> interface.
>>>> With the pop, I can have on my pop account a great amount of old mails.
>>>> With the imap, I think that after a certain time Yahoo will tell me that I
>>>> have reached the limit of my Yahoo mailbox forcing me to destroy some 
>>>> mails..
>>> With IMAP you could always filter and move to local folders.
>>>
>> I have 100 filters for 100 folders using POP3. The only way I can see to 
>> convert
>> all of this to IMAP is to create an IMAP account and then manually create the
>> 100 filters and manually create the 100 folders and then manually copy/move 
>> the
>> email from the POP3 account to IMAP account.
>>
>> How many weeks/months would it take me to do that?
> I think that there is NO NEED to switch to IMAP: As njoracle said:
> 
> Apparently it is only Yahoo Mail POP import that is being discontinued. The 
> rest
> of the POP functions like sending and receiving email into your current POP
> account on Seamonkey should continue.
> 
> 
I just received an email from ATT Yahoo who is my ISP. They said POP3 was not
being discontinued on 3/31 but did encourage me to change to IMAP.

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