mail wont accept yahoo password

OMG, I was frustrating myself with these suggestions for hours. Apparently this was my problem:

Your account is currently not enabled to sign in from apps, that do not meet modern security standards (ex. Older versions of mail and calendar apps such as Outlook). As a result, we prevented a sign in to your Yahoo account

We strongly recommend that you switch to Yahoo's apps such as Yahoo Mail on desktop and mobile and remove your account from all other less secure apps.

If you still want to use an app that uses less secure sign in, go to

https://login.yahoo.com/account/security#other-apps and turn on "Allow apps that use less secure sign in". This is not recommended and may leave your account more vulnerable to compromise. To learn more, please visit our help page: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account/SLN27791.html

Yahoo blocked this sign in attempt, but if it looks suspicious to you or it’s not from an application that you’re using, go to

https://login.yahoo.com/account/change-passwordand change the password for your account.

Sincerely,

Yahoo

I got the following message from Yahoo when I tried to login on my iPad and iphone:

Your account is currently not enabled to sign in from apps that do not meet modern security standards (ex. Older versions of mail and calendar apps such as Outlook). As a result, we prevented a sign in to your Yahoo account

We strongly recommend that you switch to Yahoo's apps such as Yahoo Mail on desktop and mobile and remove your account from all other less secure apps.

If you still want to use an app that uses less secure sign in, go tohttps://login.yahoo.com/account/security#other-appsand turn on "Allow apps that use less secure sign in". This is not recommended and may leave your account more vulnerable to compromise. To learn more, please visit our help page:https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN27791.html.

Once I did that on my computer, my iPad and iphone yahoo email worked again!

Just bought a 4s and had the same problem. I have 3 web sites hosted by yahoo and each has a separate email address. When setting up yahoo mail on my iphone I used the main account (blahblahblah@yahoo.com). Kept getting a pop up that said password is missing.

I deleted my yahoo ccount on my iphone.

I cleared all history and cookies from safari.

I went into my Yahoo account and changed the password.

I powered down and rebooted my iphone.

I set up the yahoo mail account again using my main email address associated with my Yahoo ID and got a pop up messege that yahoo server was not available.

I deleted my Yahoo ID email address and used an email address from one of my web sites.

Success! Yahoo account worked immediately and all contacts were synced.

Good luck, hope this helps.

I actually just found the solution... Delete the account and create it again as a new account BUT don't pick the Yahoo! choice when you set it up. Just set it up as an "other" account, entering your same information. For some reason, this works.

I'm having the same problem too... Plus I did the suggestions also. I want to be able to keep My main email address I don't want to change it to a different one although the different one works better than my main email address...

stevesol wrote:

I actually just found the solution... Delete the account and create it again as a new account BUT don't pick the Yahoo! choice when you set it up. Just set it up as an "other" account, entering your same information. For some reason, this works.

At first I could receive inbound emails but I was not able to send any outbound email. So I deleted my mail account but it wouldn't even pass the authentication to add the new mail account.

Then I tried adding as "Other" instead of "Yahoo!"

But what should I enter in the incoming and outgoing mail server? I've tried imap.mail.yahoo.com and smtp.mail.yahoo.com, and nothing works.

I got same problem today, was working for 2 days and now keeps asking Yahoo password. I tried to delete and add again. It does not work.

if you added as other account, what the detail yahoo in/out server need to input? thanks

I did this buy now it is asking for Host Name, user name and passwrod what should i put in this?

I had a similar yahoo problem. You don't need to use "other." I deleted my yahoo account from my phone, turned my phone off and back on, and cleared the cookies and history from Safari just in case. When I added yahoo back to mail there was no issue.

This seems to be a timing/reliability issue by Yahoo. When I deleted and recreated my Yahoo account by using "other", the iPhone automatically entered the values for the in/out server. I suspect that if I had recreated my account by using the "Yahoo" preset at that time it would have also worked. I periodically get the "need your correct password" error messages from Yahoo despite the fact that my password worked flawlessly before then. It seems to me that when Yahoo has issues, which is not uncommon, the accounts fail in various ways and if you're trying to create an account during one of these outages you will not be successful. This could also explain why you most often get to create the account without problems (and sometimes can't) and why it suddently starts working on its own (when it didn't an hour earlier). Just my two cents.

Thanks so much, your solution worked perfectly!! Now to figure out how to get my Imessage over to my new 4S. One down and one to go!!!

im having the same issue which solution worked for u?