setting up a pop account for yahoo mail

To set up Yahoo POP account:

1. pick other for mail account
2. On next screen enter bogus email and PW
3. On next screen enter real email and PW and pick POP

Note: Yahoo now requires that they generate a PW so go to the Yahoo email site and under security follow the steps required to change the PW after setup otherwise you will not be able to send out email.

I initially did this but I found using IMAP was more reliable.

jamlv54 wrote:

setting up a pop account for yahoo mail

What is the issue you are experiencing?

Here are the POP settings:

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4724.html

jamlv54 wrote:

I try to set up a POP account in Mac Mail and it won't authenticate. It keeps setting up a IMAP account which won't allow messages to remain on the yahoo server once downloaded to MacMail. Thanks for your reply

IMAP accounts keep the emails on the server. and sync the emails with all devices accessing the account. POP accounts do not retain the emails on the server and download the emails to the first device accessing the account.

What is not working? You can also add yahoo mail to apple mail without pop settings but then you won't download the email I guess.

I heard that some mailclients are dropping POP support but I don't think yahoo was one of them