Talked with Apple support and could not get this resolved. We first tried going to Mail Preferences and making sure everything on the accounts were correct. I do have two Yahoo email accounts on this computer. Next time I called we went to System Preferences - Mail, Contacts, & Calendar's and deleted each account. Then added them back. I'm still getting the error message.
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Open Keychain Access, search for yahoo, remove those entries & carefully put them in next time it asks.
Open Keychain Access, search for yahoo, remove those entries & carefully put them in next time it asks.
After doing that the different email addresses I have on this computer show up separately in Inbox of Mail. Before they were all together. Thought that might help for future reference. Thanks.
Great news, thanks for the tip also! 🙂
Oh no, guess I spoke too soon. I just got the message again.
Well, Yahoo does have frequent outages, which can cause the same message...
Okay. I didn't seem to get that message today. Thank you.
Getting the message again. Now I'm also getting a message regarding stmp when trying to send an message.
Open Keychain Access in Utilities, use Keychain First Aid under the Window Menu item, then either check the Password under that item, change it, or delete it and start over.
Resetting your keychain in Mac OS X...
If Keychain First Aid finds an issue that it cannot repair, or if you do not know your keychain password, you may need to reset your keychain.
I did the verify in Keychain Access and it didn't find any problems. I'm still getting a message when trying to send an Email using Mail.
Open Keychain Access in Utilities, use Keychain First Aid under the Keychain Menu item, then either check the Password under that item, change it, or delete it and start over.
You may have multiple entries. Delte them all.
Open Keychain Access in Utilities, enter the part after the @ sign in the search bar, hit enter
The Password rejection can confuse people since it's a catch all meaning...
This Password, Username, Authentication method... is not recognized on this Port to this Server, or a server end problem.
If using a browser to login via WebMail works it's not Name or Password, but one of the other ones.
The receiving email ports are:
IMAP is port 143
IMAP-SSL is port 993
POP is port 110
POP-SSL is port 995
Outgoing ports are...
SMTP and SMTP-SSL is on ports 25, 587 and 465. Port 587 has to be SSL, and port 465 is enforced TLS-wrapped and is generally used by Outlook users.
I don't understand. Here's what I did. I went into Keychain and opened the receiving and outgoing mail for my yahoo accounts. I changed the Account Access to allow for all. It was set to verify password. Does that make sense? Hope I didn't hurt anything. Will need to send and recieve a few emails to see if it changed anything.
Doesn't click here, but do let us know please. 🙂
error message: Mail can't connect to the account "Yahoo"
