Yahoo IMAP server - Rejected Password

Went through the same drill with ATT support and on the second go around I was given inbound.att.net address and I was able to get email. I have not switched the out bound SMTP address because it seems to work. For how long I don't know.

Everything has been working perfectily for me for 4 days now.

Thank you Toddgrx!!!!!! Have been having issues accessing my mail from my Itouch.....getting imap.mail.yahoo.com rejected passwords......so annoying. Tried your advice by going into Keychain access and deleting out the affected keychain etc.. Seems to have worked, after a week of trying a number of potential solutions this is the only thing that seems to have corrected the problem. I appreciate the advice. Cathy

I too have been afflicted by the rejected password syndrome when using my desktop email client with Yahoo's IMAP server. The real answer to the problem has been skirted around in several of the messages here:

Yahoo does not strictly support desktop email clients with their IMAP server. This is the reason for the intermittent nature of the problem. If you change back to using the POP server, I think you will find that you will have far fewer, if any, issues with your email password being accepted.

I am not going to wade into the battle about whether this is a good or bad thing. I only know that I tried using the IMAP server and it was all good for a while and then I started getting continual rejected password errors that would not go away no matter how many times I changed my email password at Yahoo, deleted my server entries in my Keychain, recreated my account in my email client, deleted my email preferences or any other voodo trickery.

I only know that when I changed back to using the POP server I stopped getting the errors.

If you are in the AT&T Yahoo family you can try these servers (these are the new AT&T servers):

SSL is necessary with both POP and SMTP

Also, the following old servers should work, as well:

POP: pop.att.yahoo.com port 995 with SSL

SMTP: smtp.att.yahoo.com port 465 with SSL

Silly question but how do you cahnge from IMAP to POP - I've tried changing settings, but can never seem to change the IMAP?

It's working tonight - but I know it won't tomorrow or the next day or the next day ;o(

It's only been for about 3 months - prior to this it was 100%

Sorry Paula but don't bother about pop either.

I used to be on imap with Yahoo, in the process of deleting the email address and reinstalling it, it changed itself to pop.

Unfortunately pop is just the same. The problem lies when we have more than one devise receiving mail, computer and phone or iPad. As soon as phone logs into the server to get mail, it locks out the computer. All in the name of security so Yahoo say.

It is ludicrous in this day and age when people have multiple devices that Yahoo act in this way and don't correct the problem, they have known about it for months apparently.

All the best too you all with it.

Mick 571

Hi paula1040,

The first thing to do is to go to the Advanced tab for your current IMAP account in Preferences, so that you preserve those settings.

Addition -- I should add that you want to disable the account once you are in the Advanced tab.

Then click the + sign to add another account. Make up a fake email address to confuse the automated setup procedure and then you should get the next window that allows you to choose a POP account and put in the correct email address and then configure your servers, etc.

Let me know if you have any problems.

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Hi Mick,

Yes, but I, along with several others (I believe) were getting rejected password errors without having any other devices logging onto the server at the same time. My iOS devises have never been set to fetch email automatically and I was still getting password rejections on my desktop email client.

All I am saying is that changing to POP will probably eliminate the rejected password errors in those cases.

And, I should add, I believe the issue is minimized when your iOS devices are logging into the IMAP server (as they are automagically configured to do now) and your desktop client is logging into the POP server.

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Hi Papalegba, but I have been on pop for the last two months, and getting the rejected 'thing' every few minutes. It's so bad that I just rely on mail from yahoo from my phone or iPad . I don't bother whith that mail address on the mac.

Cheers Mick

Hi mick571, sorry to hear that. I was using Yahoo POP mail exclusively before buying several iOS devices over the last few years and tried to standardize on IMAP.

I started getting the relentless IMAP rejected password errors on my desktop a couple of weeks ago. I just switched back to POP on my desktop a few days ago and everything has been fine.

I guess time will tell.

Good luck with that!

Mick

Thanks Mick- it worked for a few hours, but back to square one <grrrr>

Hi paula1040, just to be clear, are you saying that switching to a POP account helped for only a few hours? Did you remember to disable your IMAP account in your preferences? I'm sorry that I forgot to add that bit initially.

Sorry, in any event, that it didn't help longer. I haven't had any issues for days now that I have switched back to a POP account.

This problem has plagued me since I switched from POP, which never lost the PW, to an IMAP account, following the accounts preferences dictated by Yahoo Tech Support. I have a starter business account, but that doesn't seem to matter.

How many times in this thread have I read: "At last, problem solved!" And I have tried many excellent suggestions, such as turning off automatic fetching on my iPhone. Well, after so many false starts, and having just talked (for the 4th time) with a candid first level tech at Yahoo, here's the truth:

Yahoo IMAP does not work on the OSX Mail app. It will work on iOS on portable devices. So if you are trying to synchronize your iThing with your iMac (or whatever) you are out of luck, no matter what mail app you use. Yahoo only works with POP at home. True, IMAP may work occassionally in OSX Mail, but Yahoo states clearly that it is not supported. Though I have read this on the thread before hearing it from Yahoo directly kind of authenticated it for me.

If there is a workaround, I'd like to hear it. I also have a gmail account and am trying to forward messages to it which will show up at home. It sort of works but doesn't seem to show which message has or has not been read. Maybe there's a better way?

Without changing hosting company.

GG

Hi George,

This is true.

As I stated in my previous message above, though, this is not limited to the OS X Mail app. This is happening on several desktop mail clients. I have seen, on other forums, people having the same problem using Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.

Everyone needs to be absolutely clear on this: this is not an Apple issue at all.

This is due to Yahoo not strictly supporting desktop email clients with their IMAP server.

Cheers,

Papalegba