The page referred to above (using the Yahoo Asia option) turns off in the Yahoo POP selection, by default, the spam filtering in Yahoo so the Junk folder is of no concern whatsoever. You simply get all your email downloaded via POP with no other concerns. It means that you will get all the spam mail downloaded - but that is why there are free spam filter offerings like Spamihilator which I have used for some time to filter the incoming mail (including Junk folder) through the Yahoo Webmail add-on.
I'm not sure where Android phones and IMAP figure in the discussion. Is there a way known (other than a non-Mozilla offering of a modified version of Thunderbird 2) to access free Yahoo.com mail accounts via IMAP? On Feb 24, 6:09 pm, Ralph Stokes <[email protected]> wrote: > If You Are Yahoo.com, > Try Using the IMAP Settings from this Page, I Just Found. > With POP Mail, You Do Not Normally Have Access to Your Other Folders, > Like Junk, and Have To Go Online Every Day to Ensure You Don't Have > Valuble Emails Wrongly Deposited in the Junk/Spam Box, or Set Yahoo Not > to Filter for What It Thinks Is Spam. > With IMAP Mail, You Usually Have All the Main Folders Available, Live, > as What You See Is What You Get. And Imitates Going to the Website, and > when You Delete emails, it is Deleted in the Email Page. Also You Can > Have several eMail Applications on the same PC or any other PC around > the World, You can See All your emails, from anywhere online. You Can > Also, especially View Them Off Line, with attachments, very easy. > The Webmail Extension, in Thunderbird Imitates IMAP (What You See Is > What You Get), and tends to Show All Your different Folders without you > have to go to the Website everyday to Check. > Settings for Yahoo.com IMAP that May or May > Work.http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid/15600-yahoo-imap-hotmail-pop3... > > I have Yahoo.co.uk Which (As With The UK Residents With Hotmail.com) Are > Free POP because of the high level of Smartphones Requiring Hotmail, > Yahoo and Gmail. Also AOL is free IMAP. > > But With POP, It Is Limited, Usually to Just a Sent and Inbox, though, > often the POP account Sent Only Shows the "Sent from That Phone/PC, and > InBox. Also With The POP Mail, It Can Be a Pain, as, When You Receive an > Email in Pop, It Comes Down To Your PC/Phone, and Stack Up, and, after > reading the POP email, Thunderbird, or your phone, shows them as read, > and you might copy them to folders to organise, However, unless the > emails are deleted, they remain as "Unread" on The Server, meaning, If > You Go to Your Website (Hotmail/Yahoo) You May See 1,000s of "Unread > Emails. All The Emails You Have Ever Received, and Not Deleted, Are > Listed As Unread. To Make Matters Worse, When You Decide To Set Up Your > Mobile Smartphone to Receive Your emails from the Same email vendor, You > Will Get a Message Say 2,000 New Unread Emails, that take forever to > download to your Phone. However, If You Want all those Emails to Be Sent > To The Phone, then POP email Settings can be Good So You Get All the In > Box to the Phone. > With IMAP, or Webmail Addon, You Have "What You See is What You Get". > You Get most all the folders, and Is Like Accesssing the Website every > time, though you can save for Reading Offline, it is more for Online > Use. With IMAP, You Receive Mail, on You PC/Phone, Read it, and It > imediately Becomes Read email, everywhere, including on Web. When You Go > toWeb, you have Same Data. And, Instead of everything being marked as > Unread on every email, falsely, only Unread Emails are Un Read. When You > Access Via IMAP on a Phone, also, instead of downloading thousands of > emails, in the Inbox, it Only Downloads those That are Truely unread, > though normally older IMAP emails are kept in a different folder, as is > the Junk/Spam.. > > So Webmail Immitates IMAP, With extra Folders, and Is Better in Many > Ways, than POP, though often some phones may not be able to use IMAP, > and some Email Vendors Do Not Allow It Free, as they want you to go to > their website and see adverts, which you have to do if using POP to see > your other Folders like Spam. > > Good Luck :-) > > On 23/02/2010 01:33, Fred wrote: > > > Has anyone been able to download Yahoo eMail from Thunderbird? > > Yahoo's information indicated a premium svc needs to be purchased for > > $20/yr to do this. Hopefully there is a workaround of come sort. > > > Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en.
