Is Anyone Else Having Yahoo! IMAP Server Reject Their Password?

There is a problem with some accounts using the ATT/Yahoo servers. The problem is more likely with Yahoo. Many people are having these problems. I suspect Yahoo servers are just overloaded. Mine has cleared up for the most part, but still having occasional problems.

Best I can tell you is to use the webmail when it's bad. You can also forward the email from the website to another email address.

I never liked the fact that ATT let yahoo take over the email for them. Works good for a long time then starts giving problems. I had major issues last week with only one account. Was the same on 2 different devices. The other 2 accounts worked OK with the normal occasional reject or server time out.

Yahoo does not advertize the account can be set as IMAP, so they will not support it even though it works.

If it get to be a constant pop up annoyance, then you can deselect the Include This Account when checking for new mail. You will have to select the account and get mail manually when you want to check for it. You might also try in Mail preferences to change the time for checking for new mail to a longer timeframe.

I can't say whether or not PC users have issues. Hopefully Mountain Lion will work a bit differently where there is more compatability with Apple and Yahoo mail servers.

Only thing I can suggest is to make sure your KeyChain is OK and that there are no duplicate passwords for the incoming and outgoing servers for the account.

Good Luck

You should have the password in keychain, or else it would constantly ask you to save it there. Look for the incoming server name and the smtp server name. It will not be an application password, as you will have that for the website.

If you deselect the box to include account when checking for new mail, it will stop the automatic checking for that account. It will still check when you hit get mail manually.

You should not have to log into the account in Mail to check for new messages as long as it's open. The password is saved and should be provided by Keychain each time you check or send mail. Mail doesn not stay logged into the server. It logs in and out each time you check for Mail.

As for the other applications you mentioned, it works the same for Outlook with failures as it does with Apple Mail. So, I doubt that the other applications will fair any better.

This issue has to do with the servers ATT is using to host the email accounts. The authentication information Mail is sending to the ATT server is being rejected by the ATT server. ATT has posted the issue on their website and they are working on it.

http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB412563&cv=804&_requestid=597929#fb id=Fn9PWx5P6pZ

It is an issue with the ATT server, and not your computer. It will work with iOS devices because mobile devices use ActiveSync to send communicate with the server.

I'm very surprised that AT&T actually admitted that there is a problem. Been knowing that for 2 weeks now. First I've seen of the article.

You're welcome

I use to work for AT&T and i know how they are with admitting problems You know they have problems getting the word out to customers when they can't even enlighten their support about problems. I'm sure after thousand of trouble calls that they decided to finally check into it. It takes a lot for them to actually post a problem.

Thank goodness they finally admitted it. Maybe they will get a fix soon.

Very small world. So you know what I mean about getting support to admit they have a problem.

I've been retired 5yrs now. After 34.5 yrs. Technician for 27 years and supervisor for 7.5 years.

I am not using AT&T email and am having the same error:

The connection to the server “imap.mail.yahoo.com” on port 993 timed out.

In Apple Mail with a simple Yahoo account. Other times it is calendar on Yahoo that gives iCal errors. Let's see how long this new Yahoo CEO stays and how much more she earns when she is fired while their system gets worse and worse.

Imran

I had the same problem for the last two or three weeks. I have a bellsouth.net account, and I starting getting that Yahoo! IMAP server password rejection issue when using Mac Mail 5.2 as the client. Exchanged emails with the AT&T/Yahoo/Uverse support folks a couple times--got some hints, but no solution.

Finally, I decided to try a different email client. I have Office 2011 for Mac installed, I just wasn't using Outlook as an email client. Interestingly, when I inputted my bellsouth.net login credentials when setting up the account, Outlook automatically set it up as a POP account rather than as an IMAP account (Mac Mail sets it up as IMAP). The automatically populated account settings were still not quite right, but after a short while of fooling with them, I got it working smoothly. No more password rejection errors. I'm not sure I am prepared to say it is a Mac Mail issue vs. a Yahoo! issue, but there it is. Maybe not an ideal solution if you prefer the simplicity of Mac Mail, but Outlook 2011 isn't too bad a client.

Well, writing that prior response gave me the hint I needed to get Mac Mail going again. Left to its own devices, Mac Mail will set the account up as IMAP. But you can force it to set up as a POP account. Delete the old account (warning: you will at least lose sent mails, maybe more stuff). Click the plus sign to add the account back. Fill out the fields on the first account setup window, but hold down the option key when you hit continue. This will bypass the autosetup and allow you to set it up as a POP account. AT&T POP settings for various domains can be found on this page: http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB401570&ct=9000086&pv=1&title=Email +server+settings+(POP+and+SMTP)#fbid=X1bPOyyY3Ud

I'm not sure if those settings will do the trick in your particular case, but the key does seem to be to set it up as a POP rather than IMAP account.