Cannot get yahoo mail on Imac

I am receiving my Yahoo mail on all my Apple devices - phone, watch, MacBook Pro - but not on my iMac. All the mail settings are correct. I deleted the account, shut down and restarted the computer, and tried to re-add it. Using the Yahoo add button I put in my address and password and it looks like it is going to connect then I get an error message "Failed to authenticate with Yahoo!, please try again later". I do receive an email on my other devices from Yahoo that says New sign on Mac OS X. But the account does not load into the mail app on my iMac. I also tried to add the account using the "other" option - got the same error message.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 12, 2023 4:55 PM

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Posted on May 12, 2023 6:35 PM

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

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Jun 5, 2024 1:06 PM in response to eliezerw

That's great. You definitely know your way around iOS and MacOS. My long-time email host, Cox.net dropped that service and outsourced it to Yahoo and although I was able to use the same solution that randomuser1001 advised and receive my Yahoo email in the Mac Mail app, I am unable to send emails from my iMac or MacBook. Do you have any thoughts? I am using smtp.mail.yahoo.com as the outgoing mail server. Maybe I should try a different combination of passwords for the outgoing server such as the original Cox email password. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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