Are BT Yahoo IMAP servers seriously unreliable????...

Please help, this is driving me mad!
I have numerous machines, connected via BT Infinity using the imap.mail.yahoo.com server to get messages and sync a few folders and messages (not many - low volumes of mail in general). They are set to SSL port 993, and outgoing is smtp.mail.yahoo.com SSL port 465, with authentication. My frequency of checking mail is 5 mins.
And I get so many connection errors and timouts, I just can't belive it!! (I also have the server timeout error delay set to the maximum too) - my gmail imap works fine, but I keep getting connection time outs it is driving me insane - one minute I get the error, the next it just works.
An example of an error is - Your Imap command could not be sent to the server, due to non-network errors. This could be for example indicate a lick of memory in your system - Live Mail Error ID - 0x800CCC0E.
This error gives me NO clue as to what it is.
I am using Windows Live Mail 2012, and other clients including Outlook 2007, and the same thing keeps happening on my HTC One X andriod via the standard email client - when out and about using the TMOBILE cellular 3 g network.
I have a mixed environment, Windows 7, 8 and Mac OS too - everything is uptodate and clean.
After all the embarrassing incident of half a million hacked email acconts, I have just about lost faith in BT to subcontract out their email to Yahoo - who simply are not delivering on reliability, security - and the support you get from BT on the phone STINKS ! - because they do not know much about an email system that is not theirs afterall. What a joke!!!!
Please please can someone suggest another set of setting that work - or just confirm, that I should be chucking in the towel and just redirect all my stuff to a different provider.
Thanks, that's my rant over with - I feel better now already!
Regards,
Richard.

The Yahoo mail system has been flaky for ages. Sometimes it gets better and sometimes it gets worse. Apparently the problem is that their mail servers keep going wrong. If you are lucky, you get through to a good one, if you're unlucky, you're connected to a bad one.
However, BT are migrating across to a new provider ... http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44789/?s_cid=con_FURL_email_newemail

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