How can Yahoo Mail be accessed by IMAP using OAuth or OAuth2 authentication

Question

According to developer.yahoo.com/mail/ and IMAP responses:

* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ID MOVE NAMESPACE X-ID-ACLID UIDPLUS LITERAL+ CHILDREN XAPPLEPUSHSERVIC         


        

Answer 1

In order for you to see the mail checkboxes in the list of potential scopes, Yahoo have to white-list your developer account. I could not find any documentation about this, or instructions for how to ask for it, so I can't back this up with any documentation.