How do actions sync in IMAP? HOWTO set up IMAP email for Yahoo. A few weeks ago, I was helping my cousins set up their new iMac.
Once everything was up and running, she inquired about adding their Yahoo account to Mail. The conventional wisdom says you can’t do this. Yahoo charges for POP access. IMAP? Unavailable. But then she hands me her new iPod touch…with her Yahoo mail account working just fine. You can have IMAP access to your Yahoo Mail account. Cutting to the chase IMAP server: apple.imap.mail.yahoo.com (username = Yahoo ID) SMTP server: apple.smtp.mail.yahoo.com (username = yahooid@yahoo.com) SSL enabled. Step-by-step guide to configuring Mac OS X Mail for Yahoo Go to Mail > Preferences…Click Accounts (toolbar)Click + (lower left)You’ll see the first pane of the wizard. Change the port to 993.Finally, we need to set up the Junk mail folder. Set up Claws Mail to work with Gmail. Questions about [Gmail] and [Imap] folders - Gmail Help. Using Claws with Gmail - Claws Mail FAQ. NOTE: This is an article taken from Profarius.
This article outlines some important aspects and tips of using Claws with your Gmail account. NOTE 2: For a small portion of Gmail accounts all instances of "[Gmail]" in this document should instead be replaced with "[Google Mail]". To determine which is to be used, after you add a new Gmail account in Claws-Mail and the remote folders are fetched, you will see the sub-directory named either "[Gmail]" or "[Google Mail]". Whichever you see is the one you should use for the entirety of this tutorial, including the tags (i.e. labels) you create from within the Gmail website. [... Gmail handles email with tags and not folders.
To start, make sure you archive all of your email. [Gmail]/Archived, [Gmail]/Drafts, [Gmail]/Queue, and [Gmail]/Trash. I also have a few others such as [Gmail]/Saved, [Gmail]/Ubuntu, and [Gmail]/Kalliki. The last three are personal tags that represent folders I want to have available. Isn't that just ugly? In Search of the Perfect Email Solution. Wow, it’s been a long time since I blogged last.
I should fix that. Also, the site has a new theme! I hope you enjoy it. Anyway, onto the content… Over the course of the years, I came to realize that I was dissatisfied with my email solution. That was roughly six months ago. By the time I started using Thunderbird for the first time, I had a pretty good idea of what things I wanted in my email solution: Finally! Thunderbird - Gmail SMTP is sending eMails. Ever since Mozilla Thunderbird upgraded to version 3, it can no longer send emails which confounded me since I never changed the configuration of the Gmail SMTP settings.
I’ve already read every “How To” and “Guides” on the internet to solve this but I still can’t send emails even though there are comments that it worked for them. There are also comments that it did not work for them so it’s a case to case basis. So, I deleted my Gmail account then re-created it to see if it works. I let Thunderbird auto-configuration work and it reported that IMAP and SMTP settings for Gmail are ok so I saved it.
I was able to download my emails but still cannot send an email even to myself. Here are the steps: