Mail Can't connect to the account yahoo

flemingg wrote:

Guys, let's not lose sight of the fact that the common elements are mac and mail. When it fails with mac mail, it works with iPad, iPhone, etc. The problem is not yahoo, it is mac OS or the mac mail app. And yes, I have the same problem! 🙂

Yahoo do not provide free access in a mail client, POP or Imap. You need a Yahoo+ account. (Or a different email provider)

They do provide free access to IOS and Android devices, just not PC's and Macs.

Since I currently don't have a Mountain Lion install on my Mac Pro having upgraded my primary OS to Mavericks (but finding performance on certain very important applications abysmal and subsequently reported as a bug), I booted into my older 10.7 Lion (I regularly sync all my data to this partition as part of my backup strategy), added my Yahoo account (when I was using this OS version exclusively, Apple had not yet incorporated an easy option to add a Yahoo account to Mail, or I just never noticed that option) and have not had a single, dreaded connection issue to Yahoo e-mail thus far (knock on wood), with nothing else being changed on my iPad and iPhone (both setup to access the same Yahoo account).

So could it be something to do with Mountain Lion and/or Mountain Lion Mail (whether it's a Yahoo and/or Apple compatibility issue)?

I miss the full iCloud integration of Safari with 10.8+ so eventually I will go back to one of the newer OS's. But for the time being, I'm enjoying unfettered access to my Yahoo (standard) account through mail on 10.7 Lion.

I am being driven nuts by the same problem when using Mac Mail on my MacBook Pro (running OS 10.8.4) with having the error message telling me that Mac Mail cannot connect with Yahoo. Following the discussion thread, I have found that it gives a momentary respite to go to Apple preferences ... mail ... select the Yahoo account, click "Details," clear the password window and then put in the Yahoo PW. The account accepts this. Then I go to the error message screen and put in the Yahoo PW. The error screen then goes away and my Mac Mail downloads my current Yahoo mail. That is fine for about 10 minutes, and then the error message returns and the process has to be repeated. We seem to be wedded to Yahoo through our internet provider (AT&T), so getting rid of Yahoo is not an option. Is there a way to make this "fix" stick? If not, I may have to abandon Mac Mail.

Ask your provider whether you have a Yahoo, or a Yahoo Plus account, if it is the former that will be the reason why, if it is the latter, post back.

You can have any email provider you choose, unless you let AT&T choose on your behalf, then you get stuck with Yahoo.

The bugs seems to be specific to 10.8 as I have zero problems when I went back to 10.7 and am having no problems under 10.9.

Again, this is with the plain "free" Yahoo e-mail account.

Ken Auggie wrote:

The bugs seems to be specific to 10.8 as I have zero problems when I went back to 10.7 and am having no problems under 10.9.

Please note that any discussion of Beta software outside the forums designated for it contravenes your NDA.

I have the same problem with 10.8.4 and with a Yahoo! Plus account. It is intermittent... will make me crazy for a few hours or a couple of days, then go away and not recur for a week or two. When it happens, nothing I can think of (quit mail, reboot, delete/recreate account, etc.) seems to help.

Full disclosure, I am a computer professional but new (less than a year) on Mac, so there may be a lot of things I do not think to try! 🙂

A Yahoo Plus account should be fully supported, and it also comes with Tech Support from Yahoo included. Have you verified that you are using the recommended settings from Yahoo?

Do you work for Yahoo or something? All your responses specific to the issue at hand has strictly been playing up Yahoo Plus.

No one has responded in the affirmative of using Yahoo Plus. And my experiences indicate that Yahoo regular works just fine outside of 10.8 presently. And the majority of users complaining of this issue in this thread had been accessing Yahoo through Mail successfully before.

Ken Auggie wrote:

Do you work for Yahoo or something? All your responses specific to the issue at hand has strictly been playing up Yahoo Plus.

No one has responded in the affirmative of using Yahoo Plus.

Do you not bother to read the posts?

flemming wrote:

I have the same problem with 10.8.4 and with a Yahoo! Plus account.

I have not checked with AT&T or Yahoo yet, BUT I am thinking that the glich in OS 10.8 must be the problem since I am not having the problem with my desktop iMac running 10.7.

Hi Csound1,

I have the problem too since four weeks with my yahoo email. It is indeed ridiculous to have it and I don't understand that Apple doesn't fix it! My IMac 27 inch is three months old.

The yahoo email is not mentioned in my Mail Accounts only my Hotmail email (pop).

Would you please so kind to tell how to get my yahoo email again on my IMac without trouble and without interfering with my hotmail which is working fine. I am now 3 months on IMac/Apple so brand new.

Thanks and kind regards

Ruliyah wrote:

Hi Csound1,

I have the problem too since four weeks with my yahoo email. It is indeed ridiculous to have it and I don't understand that Apple doesn't fix it! My IMac 27 inch is three months old.

The yahoo email is not mentioned in my Mail Accounts only my Hotmail email (pop).

Then the problem has nothing to do with Mail, the account is not even on your computer.

Thanks, but how is it possible that it was no problem for 2 months, not even one time! So what is the problem then?

How could it connect if as you say

The yahoo email is not mentioned in my Mail Accounts only my Hotmail email (pop).

It is not in Mail on your computer