Hello,
Sorry, but IMAP access to Yahoo mail accounts is limited to certain applications such as iphones.
No it isn't, you can use the same settings for imap access via iphones and configure them in either Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail Desktop, etc. There are two important things to remember which I'll cover below. Here are the yahoo imap settings that I use in Outlook:
Incoming: imap.mail.yahoo.com - Port 993 - SSL Encryption enabled
Outgoing: smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk - port 465 - SSL Encryption enabled
Now, important things to remember:
1. User Name: You must use your full Yahoo e-mail address as the user name. You cannot just use your Yahoo ID alone in this box. The reason why Yahoo makes you use your full Yahoo e-mail address is because Yahoo has contracts with several ISP's including
AT&T,
Frontier,
Nokia Mail, etc to manage their e-mail services for them .
2. Inbox storage. It's probably a good idea not to keep over 500 e-mails at a time in your inbox. Doing this causes the Yahoo e-mail server to get fragmented for your account and you will most likely start getting connection errors, which means then that you will have to log on via Yahoo's web mail interface to fix.
3. If you get a "cannot update e-mail headers" error when opening e-mails, just ignore this. All they're really telling you is that Yahoo's mail server will not allow your e-mail program to add it's own headers to the message.