Email disaster!!

Janesy B said:
They ARE helping you by trying to get you away from an old fashioned way of doing things.
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Ok enlighten me.

These are the setting BT have on their help page

Basic server settings for BT Yahoo! Mail:

Incoming Mail (POP3) Server - mail.btinternet.com
Port (usually specified in 'Advanced settings') - 110

Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - mail.btinternet.com
Port (usually specified in 'Advanced Settings') - 25

no mention of IMAP (I'll have a dig around the site later)

So
POP3
What's good, what's bad

IMAP
What's good, what's bad

What's the difference, why is IMAP better? Is it better or just a different method of managing mail?
 
It's been explained earlier. The emails are kept on the server, everything you do is reflected on every single device you use.
 
Think of it like Dropbox. You have your data stored in the cloud and access it from multiple machines. If you delete a file from your home PC it will show as deleted from your phone or your work PC, for example. There's no synchronisation going on, really. It's just reading and writing to/from a centralised location that hopefully is backed up.

My email provider (also my webhost) has their gear set up in such a way that if I delete an email it's not really deleted at all, just hidden for a period of time, to avoid issues like this.

Go IMAP and never look back!
 
Russinating said:
Have a dig around for what?
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This info.
It isn't actually on BT site, though it is in the community forums.

Server address and ports

Incoming
Server = imap.mail.yahoo.com
Type = IMAP
Username = [email protected] ([email protected] also worked fine for me)
Password = as normal
Security = SSL
Port = 993

Outgoing
Server = smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Type = SMTP
Username = [email protected] ([email protected] also worked fine for me)
Password = as normal
Security = SSL
Port = 465
 
mothermachine said:
And don't forget you'll most likely need to move (copy!) your mail from your POP account on your local machine over to the IMAP account. This could take a long time.
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Cheers for that.

Apparently it would appear that BT/yahoo, prefer their customers to use POP3 as they don't post the IMAP setting in their customer support. Probably why just went with POP3 years back and it's what you get used to.

Does IMAP take care of sub-folders I have Inbox\reciepts + Inbox\racing as Outlook subfolders. Do they also copy/delete
 
DampDog said:
Cheers for that.

Apparently it would appear that BT/yahoo, prefer their customers to use POP3 as they don't post the IMAP setting in their customer support. Probably why just went with POP3 years back and it's what you get used to.

Does IMAP take care of sub-folders I have Inbox\reciepts + Inbox\racing as Outlook subfolders. Do they also copy/delete
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Yep. Should do anyway. It's just a physical directory on a server somewhere, so if you copy your folder structure accross it should all come through ok.

To be honest, I'd go with a proper email provider who can sort all this sort of stuff for you properly and offer good support. Yahoo clearly don't want you using IMAP and I think that says a lot about their service.
 
mothermachine said:
To be honest, I'd go with a proper email provider who can sort all this sort of stuff for you properly and offer good support. Yahoo clearly don't want you using IMAP and I think that says a lot about their service.
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Yeah I take your point, I went with BT naively thinking they would be pretty good at this sort of stuff. To be honest I'm mad with myself for not noticing. But it worked well enough for home use, and you get used to how things work.

Thanks though..:)
 
Local clients are old hat for most users now really. In a work environment it's a different story of course but services like Gmail which can handle external accounts like a full client are the way forward and offer offline modes.
 
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