Welcome to Yahoo IMAP Connector™

Introduction

This software lets you access your Yahoo!™ email from a desktop email client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook™).

It acts as a ‘bridge’ or connector between your desktop email program and the Yahoo! email server.  Because the Yahoo! email servers require a special extension to the IMAP protocol (which most clients don’t implement), simply using your desktop client without this connector won’t work.  The Yahoo IMAP Connector performs the necessary translations (between your desktop client, and the Yahoo! email servers) to allow you to access your Yahoo! email using the IMAP protocol.

Once you’ve got this software installed and running, you will need to configure your email client to connect to this program.

Technical Details

The Yahoo IMAP Connector provides an IMAP interface to your Yahoo email account, so you can check your email on your desktop, without having to login to your Yahoo! email using your web browser.  Here is an overview of where the Yahoo IMAP Connector fits in:

Typically, you need to install Yahoo IMAP Connector on the machine you plan on checking your Yahoo! email from.  But, once it’s installed on one computer, other computers on your home or office network can connect to it (if you allow access through your firewall at TCP port 27143) and check Yahoo! email using it.  For these other computers on your network, follow the configuration instructions as you normally would, but change ‘127.0.0.1’ to the IP Address or hostname of the computer on which Yahoo IMAP Connector is installed.