Cannot get yahoo mail on Imac

Solved. In Mac Mail - Go to Add Account and Select "Other". When prompted for email / password - enter your yahoo email address. For password - go to Yahoo Security Page (https://login.yahoo.com/myaccount/security/) and Generate App Key. (Generate and manage app passwords) Use this 16 character code as password.

I too had the same problem that my iMac running High Sierra 10.13.6 stopped getting my Yahoo mail through my Mac mail. I could get my Yahoo mail via Safari and also on my iPhone but not through mac mail until I followed {ramndomuser1001)’s post. My mac mail on my iMac now works just fine. Thank you ramndomuser1001.

I'm having the same issue. Our old email provider switched us to Yahoo Mail. I've tried everything (while on hold with Yahoo for over 2 hours) including all of the above. When I add a new Yahoo email account, I can not get the account online. When I use "other" email account and the Yahoo password, I get "unable to verify your account".

I also needed the following settings when setting up as Other Mail:

POP Settings for Yahoo mail

Incoming server- pop.mail.yahoo.com

Outgoing server- smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Older versions of Mail on Macs is the problem...

Mac's Mail App is not as modern as iOS's Mail app, Many eMail providers now require a separate App Password different from your eMail password…

Then you may need Ways to securely access AOL Mail…

https://help.aol.com/articles/allow-apps-that-use-less-secure-sign-in

Or it may just need an App Password...

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en-GB

Yahoo has gone to this too...

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/access-yahoo-mail-third-party-apps-sln15241.html

Yahoo App password…

Generate and manage third-party app passwords

Some older, third-party email apps (that do not use our Yahoo branded sign in page) require you to enter a single password for login credentials. To access your Yahoo Mail account on these apps, you'll need to generate and use an app password. An app password is a long, randomly generated code that gives a non-Yahoo app permission to access your Yahoo account. You’ll only need to provide this code once to sign in to your third-party email app.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/access-yahoo-mail-third-party-apps-sln15241.html

Thank you randomuser and Jbokie. I'm on Monterey and this is what I did: I added a new email account and selected "other", typed in the yahoo email account name and the password that was generated from the Yahoo Security page. I typed in the password (you can copy/paste it too) but make sure there are NO spaces in the password. It will think about for a bit and then I got an error message "unable to verify account". At that point I added the username (same email account name), changed the email type to POP and changed the incoming server to pop.mail.yahoo.com and outgoing server to smtp.mail.yahoo.com. It took me a while to figure all of this out, but I was on hold with Yahoo tech support for 3 hours, so I had time. I hope this helps some else!

After three days of working with AppleCare advisors, deleting and re-establishing my ATT/Yahoo mail account (pacbell.net), including wiping all data from my iPhone and restoring from an iCloud backup, it occurred to me that it was a password problem (I had recently changed my password due to the ATT data breach). The principle of Occam’s Razor — the simplest solution, the most obvious, is the correct one: I changed my password again, then re-entered it on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac; that of course worked — no more errors — which took about 5 minutes.

I was having the same issue. I logged into Yahoo and generated an app password. I then used the POP settings to pull my mail on my iMac. The problem was it wasn’t syncing to my other devices! I tried everything I could find, but ended up having to use Outlook mail on my iMac instead of Apple mail. It was the only way to sync between my devices….

This worked for me, with a modified solution that also worked - I prefer IMAP to POP so that read/deleted/etc syncs across my devices, so I changed the email type to IMAP and used the following server settings:

Incoming server- imap.mail.yahoo.com

Outgoing server- smtp.mail.yahoo.com

I attempted to do this but was given the message that "this feature is not available at this time". After some searching, I read that Yahoo disabled this feature and is trying to get people to use their app. Is there another work around? Still cannot access yahoo mail via my macbook mail feature.

Boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and dtry adding the Yahoo account from there. Then reboot normally.

Note:  if you have a wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries connect it with its charging cable before booting into Safe Mode.  This makes it act as a wired keyboard as will assure a successful boot into Safe Mode.

Which exact Mac do you have. Apple logo at top left>About this Mac…

Good work, great to hear my friend.:)

Is the MacBook running a later version of theOS?