How to Yahoo!Mail and Evolution

Simple and small how to that will help you to configure your Evolution email client to connect to youy Yahoo!Mail account via pop. Please note that this may not work on some free versions of Yahoo!Mail, as some locations only offer this service on Yahoo!Mail Plus.

The setting specified by Yahoo are:

Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.mail.yahoo.ca
Use SSL, port: 995
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.ca
Use SSL, port: 465, use authentication
Account Name/Username: YOUR USERNAME WITHOUT @YAHOO.COM
Email address: USERNAME@YAHOO.COM (OR CA, UK, BR, ETC)
Password: YOUR PASSWORD

Here are some screenshots to help you with the setup:

Identity:

Receiving Email:

Sending Email:



Vic.

How to configure IMAP on Evolution and Gmail

Gmail introduced IMAP on their email systems this week. It may not be available to you yet, but they are working pretty fast to do so.

You can check if you have it or not by going to your Gmail account, them Settings. Check that on the top menu says “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” instead of just “Forwarding and POP”.

If not, make sure your language is set to “English (US)”.


If/when you do have the option, go to the menu and check the “Enable IMAP” radio button.


Now open your Evolution client and add the following settings:

=> Identity Tab
- Full Name: Name you’d like to be displayed on your messages
- Email Address: You full Gmail address


=> Receiving E-mail
Server Type: IMAP
Server: imap.gmail.com:993
Username: Your complete Gmail address
Security: SSL
Authentication Type: Password
Remember Password: Check (optional)


=> Sending E-mail
Server Type: SMTP
Server: smtp.gmail.com:587
Server Requires Authentication: Check
Security: TLS
Authentication Type: Login
Username: Your complete Gmail address
Remember Password: Check (optional)


After that click on send and receive. You should start getting your messages. I’ve heard some people saying that they had to restart Evolution for it to start working (also complaints that IMAP on Evolution is really slow).

You will see the folders added to the left pane of your Evolution inbox.


Here are some links that may help you as well!!!

Supported IMAP Client List
How do actions sync in IMAP?
IMAP Help Center