Yahoo Dropping POP3 3/31/2017. Does thatalso apply to att.yahoo.com?

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Okay.. some things I got out of that help posting:

They are shutting down pop3 support for pc based systems, and that means ALL of their mail server accounts, including ATT's. (Even though they keep the accounts seperate from their main ones, it is still all Yahoo mail service.)

If I am not mistaken, smart phones and so on have already been using imap.

This will in no way affect the web based e-mail protal.  (mail.yahoo.com)

As I understand it, the biggest change will be to redo the link settings asccording to he entries on this chart : https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/dsl-high-speed/KM1010523:

Hmm, "POP import".  Maybe I've never needed this feature or encountered it because I'm not sure of that terminology.  So what does "import" actually mean here?  Will the POP server (for example inbound.att.net) cease to exist? 

I access the Yahoo pop and smtp servers from a email client on my computer (Thunderbird in my case).  The mails come through the Yahoo pop server to my client and I set my client to delete them from the server as I read them.  If I happen to look at Yahoo's webmail I would see the messages in its trash.  And if I hadn't recently launched my client I would see unread emails in the webmail's inbox.  This is the way I would think most of us use a desktop email client to access the Yahoo pop/smtp servers.

In my case I don't use an att.net email address however.  I use an email address I've used since the '90's.  But it is not (repeat not) for a email service provider.  Rather it's an email forwarding service.  Mail going there is simply forwarded to my Yahoo att.net email service (no pop/smtp servers are provided by the forwarding service).  Thus there is no difference sending to there than sending directly to my att.net address.  I never give out or use my att.net address and sent mail always has a sender ("from") address specifying my forwarding service's address. 

So if the ATT servers remain theoretically I would still be able to use POP in my client.  So back to my original question, what is the definition of POP import and does that affect the way I am using the Yahoo email servers?  Is POP import just one specific subfunction of the servers (importing mail from yet another email service provider)?  I really would like to understand this.

Apparently Yahoo is dropping the POP function that permits you to pull emails from another email account into Yahoo Mail. It does not appear that they are dropping POP completely. I sure would like to from AT&T as to what is really going to happen to POP on Mar 31

@ATTU-verseCare(or whoever) are you listening?   What's ATT's position in this?

My understanding is that "POP import" means the ability to use POP3 to import your emails into your email client on your computer. So, no, in that case POP3 will not work at all after the specified date. 

This still doesn't answer the original question,  does it effect non-yahoo.com email accounts? I am wondering this as well because while I have multiple accounts with att.yahoo, I only received notification of this change on my single yahoo.com email account.