Of particular interest is that Mail access is done via IMAP and appears to work on any IMAP email client - including Thunderbird. Non-web client access has been a Plus feature for a long time now - and is arguably why so many people subscribe to the upgrade.
Just plug the following into your client and use your Y! Account \ Password to access it:
- IMAP: imap.next.mail.yahoo.com
- SMTP: smtp.next.mail.yahoo.com
[Update] As JR mentioned in the Comments - don't all go IMAP crazy and crash the servers. He suggests setting your client to poll every hour.
Alternatively - just use the Y! Mail Beta - real-time messages and most of the functionality of a desktop client, but in your browser.
1. Well, the thing to remember is that if this gets too popular, the first reaction is to shut it down.
If you're going to use the IMAP service, I'd STRONGLY recommend being as gentle as you can. IMAP is not the kindest protocol, and offering it is expensive. They've probably got twice as many servers as they expect there to be people accessing it from the limited number of cellphones that support it. If those get swamped, everyone loses.
For now, if you're going to use IMAP, i'd recommend not keeping a constant connection, checking mail maybe once an hour or so, and generally treating it as the insanely precious resource that it is.
Posted at 2:12PM on Jun 24th 2006 by jr