Got yahoo free mail the hard way! Mods please place properly

[PowerPlayGraphix]

Guys,
I did this one and it works great. FORGET the POP3, Here are the instructions to forcing IMAP to work.

Motorola Droid - Setting Up Yahoo Mail IMAP | Mobile Technology Deals and Help

[romanrish]

I tried all the imap walkthroughs, and none of them worked. I saw a reference to changing your Yahoo! to Yahoo Asia, but it didn't explain how to do it. That is why I created the walk through for this. I have seen all the other posts for IMAP, and how a lot of people still can't get it to work. That walkthrough is mentioned in numerous other threads too.

[Mojo]

Guys,
I did this one and it works great. FORGET the POP3, Here are the instructions to forcing IMAP to work.

Motorola Droid - Setting Up Yahoo Mail IMAP | Mobile Technology Deals and Help

While that method has worked for some, others have had trouble.

[raven1911]

I am confused on this as I have two yahoo accts that work fine. Why would they work for me and others and not you?

[misaac]

Not working for me... getting the same error as before. Username or password incorrect.

[romanrish]

Because their can be multiple reasons. Primarily yahoo trying to avoid giving the free mobile email . Also some people have different versions of yahoo and some have granfathered seetings.

[MickeyG]

I am confused on this as I have two yahoo accts that work fine. Why would they work for me and others and not you?

I know a number of people who have used imap method with no problem. Never worked for me. The only possible variable I have come up with is they have all had their yahoo accounts a loooong time -- like 1997 or so. Mine is much newer (2001).

I have been using the yahoo asia pop connection successfully for over a month. Didn't post it here, though, because I didn't want to make it any easier for yahoo people to find it (and thus shut down). :-)

[Nupe1911]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!! i finally got my yahoo working with this method

[tbever]

Guys,
I did this one and it works great. FORGET the POP3, Here are the instructions to forcing IMAP to work.

Motorola Droid - Setting Up Yahoo Mail IMAP | Mobile Technology Deals and Help

While that method has worked for some, others have had trouble.

Yeah I was one of those! It really isn't that hard to do, but I am with the one guy who said it shouldn't be this hard to do. It really is nice to have both my Yahoo emails merged on my droid.

Mine was working great using the IMAP method since I first got the Droid in early November. This past weekend it stopped working and starting giving the connection error message. I tried setting it up again, rebooting etc but no go. I went to the ASIA method as described above and it is working great.

If this is all Yahoo blocking Google then this is supreme suckage. I have so much email on Yahoo it is more than just inconvenient to change everything over to Google GMail. BTW I have the Yahoo Plus $20.00/yr and it still screwed up.

Thanks for the workaround. I will send a google voice invite!

[romanrish]

Any more success stories using this method? I want as much feedback as possible because if people are still having trouble I will begin trying to figure another workaround for people who couldn't get it to work this way.