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trying to setup yahoo mail account in the mail app on my apple laptop
after entering username and password i get "yahoo mail failed to authenticate" error
the app was working fine with this yahoo account until connection problems made me delete the account and reinstall it.
Earlier Mac models
I found a solution for this.
This worked for me and I now have my Yahoo! emails actively coming into the Mail app on my Mac.
I found a solution for this.
This worked for me and I now have my Yahoo! emails actively coming into the Mail app on my Mac.
I just had this same issue and finally was able to log in....what I did was
-remove my existing yahoo account from the Mail app using the minus (-) symbol at the bottom of the window
-quit the Mail app completely
-went to yahoo via web browser as another person said and generated a third party app password
-re-open mail and re-add account but instead of choosing yahoo icon choose add other @ account...
-then use the third party generated password in that window
that logged me in right away. hope this helps y'all.
Edit: also running Catalina 10.15.7
I've been trawling the internet to find a solution to my macbook mail app keep saying yahoo mail failed to authenticate and finally came across your solution. However, I'm now wondering whether you will actually see my message as I don't know if you will be notified of my question, but it's worth a try for me as it is totally impossible to speak to Yahoo grrrrrrr! I have tried to follow your advice, but I've failed at the first hurdle as I can't even delete the yahoo account. I get to the account page through preferences, not settings, so I must have a different version to you, but it won't let me delete the account. So I wondered if you might be able to throw any further light on my plight ha! Thanks in advance....
I just changed my Yahoo mail password and I am now experiencing this problem. The password works just fine on the web and iPhone mail. Generating a "third party app" provides me the error, "Sorry, this feature is not available at this time." Does anyone else have a solution?
Mac OS Catalina, 10.15.7
You absolute legend!!!!!! My ancient 2012 Macbook Pro was fine until I upgraded storage and updated from Mojave to Catalina where I lost my Yahoo mail box and have been using Spark ever since for about a year. So thrilled to have the stock mail app working again, I really appreciate you sharing this solution.
Cheers.
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…
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
Relax, nothing got broken, its been taken care of. Just follow the below instruction:
Some older, third-party email apps like MacOs Mail 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. Please do write "
MacOs Mail" when it asks for which "Third Party App" you gonna use this password for? It will show you the
password, copy the shown password. Go back back MacOs Mail, Click on "add account" and select "other mail
account". Write down your yahoo account number and on the password section paste the copied password from
yahoo page. Please select option 1 from below or click the link below and follow the below instruction. Easy pizzy.
https://login.yahoo.com/myaccount/security/?.lang=en-US&.intl=us&.src=yhelp&.scrumb=HZ7H2rW97jC
Use this app password and your email address to sign in to your email app.
So Im trying this method but there's a step no one is mentioning which is when you try to "generate app password" on the yahoo page it asks for the app name and no matter what app name I input, I get the response that "Sorry this feature is not available right now!" So what is the correct app name you are supposed to input not to get the "Sorry..." message? Perhaps I missed something...
Exactly same here, I changed my password, now I can't login with Apple Mail.
Mac OS Catalina, 10.15.7
Web login fine, iOs Login fine.
Third party app password "Sorry, this feature is not available at this time."
Hi there, you generally get better/quicker help by starting your own tread, but see if this helps...
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…
SoloImac’s solution…
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254692276?answerId=259674654022#259674654022
Then you may need Ways to securely access AOL Mail…
https://help.aol.com/articles/allow-apps-that-use-less-secure-sign-in
Much to my surprise, this solution actually worked!! Thank you! (and sorry for being a doubter : ))
I finally solved the problem of Yahoo mail failing to authenticate. I upgraded my Mac to a new one which uses the OS 14.4. Yahoo mail now works just fine. I guess the older OS was the problem.
When I migrated from PC to the new Mac, my Yahoo! Mail initially worked. At least I could receive, but didn’t check the send. The minute I went and added my Hotmail account things changed. I deleted the yahoo account and decided to start over and that’s when the authentication issue began with yahoo. Not sure this entirely answers your question but it should be possible.
I had attempted every solution recommended in various forums (including this one) related to the issue. In the end, the only effective solution was to upgrade my operating system from Catalina to Ventura. After completing the upgrade, I added my Yahoo email account to Mail app, and this time it worked successfully. And Ventura 13.5.1 works perfect with my 13" 2017 Macbook Pro.
Okay, I think I found a way to make this work in Monterey...
Do everything they say above and it will fail on Monterey, but on the failed screen I changed the incoming and outgoing servers to:
imap.mail.yahoo.com
smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Repasted the App password and clicked to authenticate again. This worked for me.
yahoo mail failed to authenticate
