Mail won't allow me to login to my Yahoo Alias Email (iOS 9.0.1/iPad Mini3 & iPhone 5s)

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Mail won't allow me to login to my Yahoo Alias Email (iOS 9.0.1/iPad Mini3 & iPhone 5s)

I updated to iOS 9.0.1 on my iPad Mini3 (and iPhone5s). Yesterday (9/23/15), Mail began notifying me that my Yahoo email passwords were invalid. (I use my Yahoo ALIAS ACCOUNTS to send/receive msgs.) I checked and my passwords are both correct; however, I received an "email and password are mismatched" message when I tried to reconnect to Yahoo Now, Mail has defaulted to my (long unused) primary email account name. For illustration: 123x@Yahoo.com is my active alias, and SeaMonkey@yahoo.com is my Primary account name. Up to now, I have had no problem having Mail log into Yahoo as 123x. But now Mail has reverted to SeaMonkey as my account name. I haven't used SeaMonkey for my email in 10years...for obvious reasons. I'd appreciate any help, as this situation is happening on both my iPad & iPhone, so I'm having to use my desktop to send mail.

iPhone 5s, iOS 9.0.1

Posted on Sep 24, 2015 11:57 AM

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Oct 1, 2015 7:41 PM in response to Jaguaryan

Login to your yahoo page (I have paid account, with alias). In Settings, there is account signin settings to Manage App and website logins. just like Google now, it looks like Yahoo wants IOS added.

Very frustrating as I cannot get into my Alias website email.

This is iOS 9 and Yahoo issue:

The recent iOS9 upgrade for Apple phones and devices has caused sending and receiving issues for business email users using the built in mail app.

Affected users are those that originally chose the “Yahoo Mail” default account type. To resolve this issue, affected users should first remove the business email account from the built in mail app. Then, add their business email account with the “Other” account type as described in this help page https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-web-hosting/SLN17483.html?impressions=true.

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