Forwarding Yahoo mail to Gmail for IMAP access?

You can do it all from Gmail. While you were writing this question, I was answering your previous slightly different one.

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I have a workaround.

You can read Yahoo mail via POP
Gmail can grab your POP mail.
Gmail has IMAP.

Yes, it’s convoluted. But it works.
I have Yahoo mail and Gmail. But I only log into Gmail because it sends & receives via Yahoo’s servers as well as Google’s.

P.S.
There is some lag. Maybe 15 minutes. That’s a guess, I’ve never timed it because it’s never been a problem.

Thanks for both of your replies. Yeah, the other one was more of a “do you think it will ever happen” kind of thing. So it sounds like this will work fine, although it would of course be better to have true IMAP access.

Thanks again!

re: “do you think it will ever happen”

I doubt it. Very few people care/know about IMAP. The vast majority happily use whatever email they have, which is mostly web-based these days.

Same for me, except I back up Gmail to my hard drive via IMAP. Windows Live mail is a simple program for that. LOL, I expected to hate it, it’s actually barebones and unobtrusive.

You know, I’d be happy with the web mail client for Yahoo apart from a few bugs (like random search terms ALWAYS resulting in an error returned; not good). So I just need to weigh the pros and cons of each solution and pick what’s right for me.

Thanks again for all your advice!