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Forgot to mention, you are correct again on not using port 25. Port 25 is usually restricted by your ISP to their mail servers only.

That's correct. You can use port 465 SSL, but on some ISP's, especially on ones that use a cable modem, it takes forever to send out on port 465 because of port 465's security encryption requirements, so I use port 587 instead.

It will work when you are checking your Inbox for new messages, but when you try sending a message out from their SMTP server, you will get a login failed error. That what it did to me, so out with mail.com for the time being. At least until they realize that there are just way too many other...

Well apparently mail.com has now suspended free access to their SMTP send server. I've tried sending out over both ports 465 SSL and 587 with no success, and that's fine. If that's the way that the administrators of mail.com want to be, then that is their right. It is also our right as users to...

Yes, a Yahoo Mail Plus subscription is still required for POP3 access, however, with people accessing their e-mail accounts in more then just one place or on more then just one device, imap access is still the more popular method because your e-mails don't get deleted from the server immediately...

As far as I know, it's still free. There is no trail yet. Rule of thumb, if you can still access your account via imap, great. Do it. The only thing I've noticed it that mail.com has recently removed the link on how to set up pop3 and imap from their help pages, but you can still view their help...

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...