Yahoo (and other IMAP) workaround to POP3

[MIDI Life Crisis]

It appears that Yahoo is now IMAP only - so that's a dead horse. Apple (Mavericks, Lion, etc.) does allow pop3 accounts but you have to know how to do it. Since no help in this regard has been forthcoming that I can find on Apple Discussions, here's your solution if you want to continue to use your Yahoo account as before (more or less) and NOT use IMAP.

Setup up a new (or use an existing) Gmail account. Under the Settings tab on the gmail webmail, set up the account as a pop account.

On your Mac and/or iPhone: Set up a new Gmail account (you can also delete the old one and reestablish it) following these directions (note that the initial data for the gmail account has to be entered before you can see the NEXT instead of the CREATE button):

http://apple.stackexchange.com/question ... -mavericks

I'm not positive but again, if you have an existing gmail account you want to use, you might have to delete the old account on the Mac and/or iPhone (NOT at Gmail) to reestablish it as a pop 3 on the Apple devices. Just delete the old one (you won't loose your emails, at least on the Mac (I haven't tried it with emails stored on an iPhone but to be safe, be sure they are archived somehow).

Go to your Yahoo account and set the FORWARDING option to send the messages to your new Gmail account.

On the Gmail account, you might also set the account to delete the messages after downloading (or not). That should then forward all your old Yahoo messages to the Gmail account which will now be a pop account and the IMAP "BS" of pushing everything all the time will be history.

You also don't have to eat mustard greens if you don't like them, and now you don't HAVE TO have an IMAP Gmail account - so there!

[mikehalloran]

Shhhhh.... Don't tell my iMac or iPad. They're still accessing my Yahoo mail via POP3. Except when the Yahoo server goes down about once every two months, I don't have problems.

I refuse to get email on my iPhone but one of Santa's helpers has let it slip that my first gen iPad (ios5) will be replaced on 12/25. So I suppose that I'll have to deal with this then.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I'm looking at some links I got on Apple Discussions that indicate how to fix this. On our accounts, ATT switched us from POP to IMAP automatically and the mail stopped working. Tech support was not too helpful either but apparently it is possible to have POP with Yahoo from ATT.

[cuttime]

Maybe this'll fix ya:

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/12/16/app ... rovements/

[MIDI Life Crisis]

How timely! Most of these issues are on my wife's computer as I only use my own server for mail. But after moving her to Gmail and forwarding the Yahoo messages Gmail wouldn't always allow downloading of messages. Only some messages were denied but it was weird so hopefully this fixes it. Thanks!!!

[BKK-OZ]

The answer to almost every IT question seems to be 'wait 'till the next version'.

I wish I could figure out how to get deleting on the server to work. (I am with godaddy for mail hosting - Pop accounts). I get tired of deleting things on the desktop, only to have to kill them again on my iPad.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I use godaddy as well and Mail always removes messages from secureserver once I d/l them to the Mac.

[mikehalloran]

I wish I could figure out how to get deleting on the server to work.

I use the Apple Mail client and log in directly to the Yahoo servers. My isp is AT&T but I did nothing when I changed from Comcast over three years ago.

Deleting mail from the servers is done on a schedule that you set up in Preferences.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Even with the 10.9.1 update, some messages simply do not download to my wife's MBP. "Get Account Information" from the bottom of the message viewer in Mail also doesn't show the messages on the server and they weren't downloaded. They sit there, invisible to the mac.

[BKK-OZ]

Deleting mail from the servers is done on a schedule that you set up in Preferences.

Duh-oh! You have earned yourself one beer, to be paid for in full by me, when we next meet.