I recently set up two Yahoo accounts for imap using TB2. Yahoo imap works OK, although it isn't the speediest system in the world. On the other hand, it's all Yahoo offers for free (vs. POP access) in the US. How do you know your account isn't downloading but maybe just slow?
On Aug 23, 3:04 pm, kauffman <[email protected]> wrote: > I have my yahoo account set up with yahoo imap and it only works > sometimes for me. It always downloads messages when I start it up, but > when it's left running sometimes it downloads new messages, sometimes > it doesn't. I have tried everything I can find searching the topic > online. Extensions "synconarrival", "webmail" adding "INBOX." to the > advance settings, using "imap-ssl.mail.yahoo.com" & > "imap.mail.yahoo.com". Noting works consistently all of the time. My > gmail account works with no problem. > > On Aug 23, 1:29 pm, KE4AVB <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > As far I know no one done or had the need to do so. > > > The webmail doesn't use pop or smtp to receive or send mail with email > > server. It only uses these when it is communicating with TB. It contacts the > > yahoo webmail site to do this as if you were logging into the site yourself. > > > Are you just needing download your other folders along with your inbox? If > > so the extension can be setup to do so. > > > Eugene
