Cannot get yahoo mail on Imac

This worked. Thanks for the tip. I think the key is to use the one time generated app password rather than the Yahoo mail password. As context I was converted to Yahoo mail by my ISP and I was able to add my mail account as yahoo on my iPhone and use my Yahoo mail password but it simply would not work on MacOS on my iMac either as yahoo or as other. Adding the account as other and using the app generated password along with typing in the imap and smtp server names for yahoo did the trick.

Same thing for us. our account was switched from cox to yahoo and I tried the very same thing and was unable to make it work on MacBook Pro. It's extremely disappointing. I talked with Cox and they told me I will not be able to do it. Apple should address this issue.

Your feedback worked!! Thanks for adding this!! I have been stuck for months w/out Yahoo mail connected to my apple mail.. I was also part of the migration from Cox switching to Yahoo as an email provider

Since about 3 month ago ive been having problems checking my yahoo emails on MacBook Air, the browser seems very slow, the system glitchiest and becomes unresponsive. any suggestions. I did clean and clear cache, cookies and history didnt work. This only happens while working in Yahoo

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.

I cannot get yahoo on my Mac I tried to eat up again and I started I fill out my information but it says my password is wrong and doesn’t reply

I've been trying to link Yahoo Mail to Apple Mail for about 2 weeks. Your solution worked with the first attempt. Thank you for posting.

This worked perfectly. Thank you :)

I have tried all of these options and get a red error message saying unable to verify account name or password. I have done everything I can think of. Could it be since I share this email address with my spouse to won't let me add it to my Mac Mail?

I think that a good possibility, since they now require an App password on the computer using, but you say you tried that?

If all else fails, use a Browser to login to yahoo.com using his credentials.

After a while, even after changing my Yahoo/ATT mail password (which had seemed to solve the problem), the problem emerged again — so I assumed it was an underlying authentication issue, with the Yahoo server and Mail simply not playing well together. So ultimately, I opted to use my Yahoo/ATT Security Key as the password — I had set-up the Security Key quite a while ago [https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account/manage-yahoo-account-key-sln25781.html] [https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN25781.html] — first deleting the YAHOO account in my Mail application and setting it up again simply as another MAIL account, under Other Mail Account (you cannot use an ordinary Yahoo password for Other Mail Account — the server will not authenticate it. Now, in doing that, actually all the folders I have on the Yahoo/ATT server populated immediately in the new Mail account, though they took a while to fully download all the saved mail. So far, though the problem blips from time to time (with the dreaded exclamation point (!) — connection problem — it self corrects rather quickly, either by quitting the Mail app and re-opening it, or sometimes by restarting my Mac, and receiving mail is now much more consistent.

By the way, using the Security Code only works on Mac OS, not iOS — that is, you cannot set-up an Other Mail Account on iOS; so while I am stuck using another password on my iPhone and iPad, I only have to suffer a latent connection from time to time.

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.

I have to say that, having dealt with this over and over and over for the past few weeks, it's a mystery. I have alternately set-up my devices (MacOS/Sonoma on a Mac Studio and and a MacBook Pro, and iOS on an iPhone and iPad) using both the Yahoo route (using my Yahoo/AT&T password) and the Other/Mail Account route (using my Yahoo Security Key), and from time to time I still get connection errors — regardless of which route I take — or if I do maintain a connection, the retrieval of email is very sluggish. In my last effort a few days ago, the Apple Senior Advisor escalated the issue to the engineers — I was informed that a software fix, from the Apple end, should be in the works. In the meantime, following another round of failed connections, I rebuilt all four devices using the Yahoo route. After that, the next day, this morning, both my MacBook Pro and iPad failed the connection test. I didn't rush to "delete and rebuild" — instead I waited it out, shutting down Mail, shutting down my MBP, shutting down my iPad…waiting; and eventually — as I said — a mystery, the connections re-established, however, still rather slow on the draw. I suspect that the Yahoo servers may be at fault; but I'm going to let the Apple engineers deal with the Yahoo people, because if I call AT&T support, I will just be told to delete the account and rebuild it. Not again. So now all my devices are working, using the Yahoo route, the AT&T/Yahoo password, and I'll let that ride.

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