Need help in figuring out how to set up an IMAP Yahoo account

Hello,
I am trying to help my dad (who is 80 years old) in setting up his iMac and iPhone 4S with his email. His email address ends in "sbcglobal.net", however, he is able to check his sbcglobal email through Safari by going to Yahoo Mail. I don't know how or why this works, but it does--I've seen him do it many times. Even though he is logged into Yahoo mail, he is receiving his sbcglobal mail. And when he sends email through Yahoo Mail, it shows as coming from his sbcglobal account. I'm assuming that somewhere along the way, Yahoo bought sbcblobal or vice-versa.
My dad went to the Apple Store because he would like his email to be "sync'd" with his iPhone 4S. The only way to do this is to have an IMAP email account. His sbcblobal account is POP---not IMAP. However, the Apple employee he talked to (during a One-to-One training session) printed out a thing for him that shows him how to "add" an email account to his "Mail" application on his iMac. I've seen the printout, and it's just the usual manner where you go to Accounts and then click the "+" button to add an account. But I don't understand why this would accomplish anything, because he already has his sbcblobal email account set up in "Accounts"----why should he do it all over again with the exact same information? The Apple employee told him that if he adds the account, it will show up as a Yahoo IMAP account, but this makes no sense to me at all.
So I'm trying to figure out how to help him, and I'm trying to understand what the Apple employee was asking him to do by "adding" another Account to Mail. He already has his sbcglobal account in Mail, but the employee told him that it would show up as Yahoo IMAP? I'm VERY confused.
Attached is a picture of what the Apple employee told my dad to do. How did she get "Anthony" as an IMAP account?
Thanks much!

however, he is able to check his sbcglobal email through Safari by going to Yahoo Mail.
Almost evert Mail Provider also has a WebMail interface you can get to in browser.
THe reason to set up a new one is safty, though it's possible to change the existing one, best to set up a new one first, then move any eMails he wants to keep to the IMAP account.
Yahoo Plus IMAP Settings for Mac OS X Mail
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110208153256491

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