What used to be Y! Plus (19.99) is now Y! Ad-free (49.99). Nice increase for less since they've made all other features available to freeriders as well.
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Since Yahoo now charges $49.99 for ad free email, I can only infer that graphical ads on the sidebar must be really profitable (or Yahoo has plans to put more ads everywhere) and that Yahoo does not really want to entice many users to opt for the paid plan.
Of course, it could be that these paid users partially subsidize other features (previously out of reach) for the "free tier" users, but the pricing is really high and will be immediately be out of consideration for almost all users.
I wonder how many new users would sign up for this (as opposed to those already on Mail Plus and grandfathered at $19.99).
Addendum: Y! Plus subscribers will be grandfathered into the 19.99 plan.
I was shocked when I saw the ad free version priced at $49.99 for new subscribers!
And Yahoo still doesn't have IMAP access (while Gmail has had it for free).
You can use IMAP from smartphones, and from Apple Mail:
> Mac OS X users can directly set up an IMAP account in Apple Mail 4.4. After entering a full name, email address, and password, hold down the Option key. The Create button will change to Continue, allowing one to manually configure the account settings.
> Apple Mail 5.0 included with Mac OS X Lion supports easy and direct IMAP account setup.
As others have pointed out, it's not available on all platforms. It's not transparently published either.
The claim was it doesn't have IMAP access. It does.
You can get secure offshore email, hosted in Switzerland for less than that at http://NeoMailbox.net
I have no affiliation with them whatsoever other than the fact I use the service.