Accessing Yahoo! Business Email on Android Devices Using IMAP

You are in luck if you want to use your Android device (tablet or smart phone) to access your cloud based email account. For virtually any major email provider, there's an app that you can find in Google Play (formerly Android Market) that will serve the specific purpose of accessing their service. However, there is also a generic Android Email app that comes with the OS that can be used if you do not wish to use the specialized apps. For instance, running Yahoo! Mail app on a low end Android phone can be excruciatingly slow. Worse yet, it's virtually impossible if you want to access your Yahoo! Business Email account (those with the company's domain name instead of yahoo.com) using the Yahoo! Mail app.
The Email app in Android is a good and free app that allows you to access Yahoo! Business Email. The only disadvantage of Android Mail is that it does not support push mail. So you’ll have to set it to check mail at a regular interval. To set up your Email app, you will need the following information (step-by-step direction will follow):

• Incoming Mail (also known as IMAP in technical terms):
• Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
• Port: 993
• Security: SSL
• Outgoing Mail (also known as SMTP):
• Server: smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com
• Port: 465
• Security: SSL

Now, onto the step-by-step direction:

1. Tap on the menu button at the bottom of your screen.
2. Tap on Email (the default Android Email, not any other email app like Gmail or Yahoo mail).
3. Click the Menu button at the bottom of your phone (often it is a physical button outside of the screen on the very left hand side).
4. Tap on Add Account.
5. Select Others for account type.
6. Enter your email address and password then tap on Manual Setup (DO NOT tap on Next).
7. Select IMAP when prompted for account type.
8. Enter the following information for Incoming server settings then tap Next:
• Username:(Your complete email account, including the domain name.)
• Password:(Your password)
• IMAP server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
• Port: 993
• Security type: SSL
• IMAP path prefix: (Leave this blank.)
9. Enter the following information for Outgoing server settings then tap Next:
• SMTP server: smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com
• Port: 465
• Security type: SSL
• Require sign-in: checked
• Username: (Your complete email account, same as in the previous step.)
• Password: (Your password.)
10. Under Email checking frequency, set it to how often you would like mail to be checked (it does not support push mail so you will not get messages immediately). Make sure the checkbox next to Notify me when email arrives is checked then tap on Next.
11. Give the account a nickname and tap on Done.

That’s it for accessing your Yahoo! Business Email account on Android devices.