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How to set up IMAP Yahoo Mail with Apple Mail

Credit to:http://www.earlyred.com/2010/12/yahoo-imap-settings-for-mac-and-apple.html

How to set up IMAP Yahoo Mail with Apple Mail

Note: You do not need to be a Mail Plus subscriber to take advantage of IMAP.

In Apple Mail, add a new account and after entering a full name, email address and password, hold down the Option key. The Create button will change to Continue, allowing one to manually configure the account settings.

Use the following settings:

Incoming Server - imap.mail.yahoo.com

Outgoing Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Incoming Port - 993 (requires SSL)

Outgoing Port - 465 (requires SSL/TLS)

Username: full email address (example: bill@yahoo.com)

Password: the password you login to Yahoo with.

Make sure to identify four mailboxes as special: Drafts, Trash, Sent and Bulk Mail (Junk).

For example, in the left pane under the heading "On My Mac" under the Yahoo account, select the Draft folder. Then on the menu bar select Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For > Drafts. Do this for the other 3 mailboxes to make sure your mail gets sorted correctly.

Best,

Alex

Posted on May 14, 2011 5:27 PM

27 replies

Dec 21, 2016 4:11 PM in response to Alexander Lee1

This is rather and old post but it is still of actuality as Yahoo seems to create issues from time to time. I just had the same issue after letting my MacPro off for more than a month. My two yahoo accounts would not work anymore (and they were working fine on mac Macbook Air!). What I found (and it worked) is this: in your Yahoo accounts, in the Security Settings section, you will have some options - two in particular are of importance here: one option is to turn on the "double identification" option (see for that one post in the thread here); the other option (that worked for me) is to turn on the button for allowing apps that are using less secure access.

Once I turned on that feature, I immediately went to my Mail Yahoo accounts and made them fetch the mails and it all worked well. In your Mail Yahoo accounts you need to use your Yahoo password (as is indicated in several posts here).

Hope this will help you guys.

Apr 25, 2017 9:26 AM in response to Alexander Lee1

Here a walk through

Setup Yahoo Mail on Mac w or w/o (2 step verification)

Oct 16, 2011 8:42 AM in response to Alexander Lee1

I have been trying that since the 12th, and it always gives me an invalid user/password error message. Any other ideas?

PT Jim

Level 1

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Jan 31, 2012 2:15 PM in response to Alexander Lee1

Thanks for the great tip. I was having the same issues and your settings guide worked great. There is nothing that I could find on Yahoo that listed their settings for Apple Mail.

Jan 31, 2012 2:27 PM in response to PT Jim

Glad it solved it!

It was driving me crazy when it happened to me. 😉

Aug 8, 2012 10:22 AM in response to Alexander Lee1

All i did in yahoo was change my location to UK. Once i did that, I was able to turn on POP and set up outlook and mail app

Hau3

Level 1

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Jan 26, 2013 11:54 AM in response to fishhavelittlememory

Hi there, I cannot find the option to choose imap. When I set up new account it ticks everything automatically! This is making me crazy. I need it set up on mac, iPad and iPhone.

Hau3

Level 1

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Jan 30, 2013 12:49 PM in response to Markie Castle

Thank you, but it definitely states Pop. I am using btinternet for my mail. The Pop settings do not allow all the Imap info and servers to be put in. Hau

manbert

Level 1

4 points

Dec 10, 2014 2:26 PM in response to fishhavelittlememory

Thank you so much. Fixed it for me after Apple mail not setting it up automatically

May 17, 2015 1:17 AM in response to Genevakeith

Hi, Genevakeith. I logged in my Yahoo Account and in Account Security I don't have App Paswords. Can it be because of older OS X and Safari( v. 5.1.7)?

May 17, 2015 7:07 AM in response to Genevakeith

Thank you for your reply, Genevakeith. However it may be, I decided to make all my Yahoo Mail being forwarded to my Gmail account. No trust in Yahoo anymore!

mdee4

Level 1

27 points

May 7, 2016 2:20 PM in response to PSGMCMAHON

Thanks for this post. Four years later and this helped me fix my issue with using a Yahoo account for the Airmail app on Mac and IOS.

How to set up IMAP Yahoo Mail with Apple Mail