Why IMAP Protocol Necessary for Yahoo Mail?

Yahoo is one of the most widely used mail platform that provides other effective services as well for its users which are available to be used right on yahoo mail account. This includes various useful services like gaming, fun and entertainment which can make user experience better on yahoo. With this people enjoy using its informational services as well like news and forecasting. When people are exchanging there mails via yahoo mail platform they get to use all these services as well which makes it most widely used mail platform. The other reason why it is so widely used is because it is available with user friendly features and further if any help is needed one can get it from Yahoo Support Number.

When you are exchanging mails on your yahoo platform you do not realize that that there are rules which are responsible for this exchange. When users exchange mails they are doing this with a set of rules known as Protocols. There are various protocols that are responsible for various actions users are taking on daily basis on their mail platform. IMAP is one among such protocol which is responsible for various actions users are taking on a mail platform like yahoo.

IMAP is important mail protocol. It is internet mail access protocol that enables user to access their mail without any interruptions. There are various actions on your yahoo mail that you are taking unknowingly that these are happening because of such protocols. The first version of IMAP protocol was proposed in 1986. Since then it has gone through various renovation and the recent IMAP protocol is the most advance of all.

1.    Original IMAP
2.    IMAP2
3.    IMAP3
4.    IMAP2bis
5.    IMAP4

• IMAP enables ease of client program and its access.
• It helps users manipulate the e-mail message right on the screen without actually downloading it.
• With IMAP you can take actions on the server without actually loading it to the local computer.
• It is responsible as for maintaining the hold of email at the remote server.
• It is responsible as well for other important actions such as downloading, deleting the mail, without actually reading or downloading the mail.
• It let user create, manipulate and delete remote message from the inbox.
• IMAP is responsible for deletion of the complete folders as well which are referred as mail boxes in yahoo.
• With IMAP users can search for required the e-mails.
• When your yahoo has multiple mailboxes you can have concurrent access to multiple mailboxes.
• It provides listing capabilities as well.

Some of the common IMAP commands are:

1. IMAP_ Login – It helps you open the connection.
2. Create – It helps user create a new yahoo mail box with a new name.
3. Delete – One can permanently delete a selected mailbox in yahoo.
4. Rename – One can change the name of an existing mailbox in yahoo.
5. Logout – It is a command to close the connection. The server then sends a message that user is done with session.

With this yahoo has several features that supports yahoo and actions taken by users over their yahoo platforms. When users perform certain actions over their yahoo platform they are actually not aware that many specific constraints and rules are responsible for this. Knowing such features over yahoo is interesting and if you want to know more stay connected to Yahoo Customer Service Number UK.