Cannot get yahoo mail on Imac (2024)

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User profile for user: mgsalinger

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I am receiving my Yahoo mail on all my Apple devices - phone, watch, MacBook Pro - but not on my iMac. All the mail settings are correct. I deleted the account, shut down and restarted the computer, and tried to re-add it. Using the Yahoo add button I put in my address and password and it looks like it is going to connect then I get an error message "Failed to authenticate with Yahoo!, please try again later". I do receive an email on my other devices from Yahoo that says New sign on Mac OS X. But the account does not load into the mail app on my iMac. I also tried to add the account using the "other" option - got the same error message.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 12, 2023 4:55 PM

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User profile for user: randomuser1001

randomuser1001

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Posted on Oct 21, 2023 8:32 AM

Solved. In Mac Mail - Go to Add Account and Select "Other". When prompted for email / password - enter your yahoo email address. For password - go to Yahoo Security Page (https://login.yahoo.com/myaccount/security/) and Generate App Key. (Generate and manage apppasswords) Use this 16 character code as password.

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User profile for user: randomuser1001

randomuser1001

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Oct 21, 2023 8:32 AM in response to losbozos

Solved. In Mac Mail - Go to Add Account and Select "Other". When prompted for email / password - enter your yahoo email address. For password - go to Yahoo Security Page (https://login.yahoo.com/myaccount/security/) and Generate App Key. (Generate and manage apppasswords) Use this 16 character code as password.

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User profile for user: MID2170

MID2170

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Apr 29, 2024 6:03 PM in response to yogabydawn

I'm having the same issue. Our old email provider switched us to Yahoo Mail. I've tried everything (while on hold with Yahoo for over 2 hours) including all of the above. When I add a new Yahoo email account, I can not get the account online. When I use "other" email account and the Yahoo password, I get "unable to verify your account".

User profile for user: JBOKIE

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Mar 20, 2024 6:48 AM in response to mgsalinger

I also needed the following settings when setting up as Other Mail:

POP Settings for Yahoo mail

Incoming server- pop.mail.yahoo.com

Outgoing server- smtp.mail.yahoo.com

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MID2170

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Apr 29, 2024 7:30 PM in response to mgsalinger

Thank you randomuser and Jbokie. I'm on Monterey and this is what I did: I added a new email account and selected "other", typed in the yahoo email account name and the password that was generated from the Yahoo Security page. I typed in the password (you can copy/paste it too) but make sure there are NO spaces in the password. It will think about for a bit and then I got an error message "unable to verify account". At that point I added the username (same email account name), changed the email type to POP and changed the incoming server to pop.mail.yahoo.com and outgoing server to smtp.mail.yahoo.com. It took me a while to figure all of this out, but I was on hold with Yahoo tech support for 3 hours, so I had time. I hope this helps some else!

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Apr 5, 2024 10:56 AM in response to mgsalinger

I too had the same problem that my iMac running High Sierra 10.13.6 stopped getting my Yahoo mail through my Mac mail. I could get my Yahoo mail via Safari and also on my iPhone but not through mac mail until I followed {ramndomuser1001)’s post. My mac mail on my iMac now works just fine. Thank you ramndomuser1001.

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May 13, 2023 8:55 AM in response to BDAqua

This worked but I had to enter the email account under other - rather than the yahoo option. Thanks. Funny that it works normally on my MacBook.

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Apr 25, 2024 9:22 PM in response to mgsalinger

I’ve tried numerous times with the suggestions below and I still receive message saying unable to verify account name or password.

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User profile for user: BDAqua

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May 12, 2023 6:35 PM in response to mgsalinger

Older versions of Mail on Macs is the problem...

Mac's Mail App is not as modern as iOS's Mail app, Many eMail providers now require a separate App Password different from your eMail password…

Then you may need Ways to securely access AOL Mail…

https://help.aol.com/articles/allow-apps-that-use-less-secure-sign-in

Or it may just need an App Password...

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en-GB

Yahoo has gone to this too...

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/access-yahoo-mail-third-party-apps-sln15241.html

Yahoo App password…

Generate and manage third-party app passwords

Some older, third-party email apps (that do not use our Yahoo branded sign in page) require you to enter a single password for login credentials. To access your Yahoo Mail account on these apps, you'll need to generate and use an app password. An app password is a long, randomly generated code that gives a non-Yahoo app permission to access your Yahoo account. You’ll only need to provide this code once to sign in to your third-party email app.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/access-yahoo-mail-third-party-apps-sln15241.html

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User profile for user: thinshane

thinshane

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May 5, 2024 11:05 AM in response to MID2170

This worked for me, with a modified solution that also worked - I prefer IMAP to POP so that read/deleted/etc syncs across my devices, so I changed the email type to IMAP and used the following server settings:

Incoming server- imap.mail.yahoo.com

Outgoing server- smtp.mail.yahoo.com

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User profile for user: jhclarkfl

jhclarkfl

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Jun 11, 2024 8:55 AM in response to mgsalinger

My email account was recently ported from Cox to Yahoo. I created a Yahoo account using my cox.net address and password. This appeared to be accepted for the account creation in my MacBook Apple Mail. However, the account would not come Online. After numerous attempts trying different suggestions, I successfully created an "Other" mail account in Apple Mail on my MacBook. Initially, I entered my email address from cox.net and my password that works to sign in to Yahoo mail on the website. Of note, I have had no problems getting my emails on my iPhone mail and the Yahoo website, only on my MacBook. Anyway, this first attempt at creating the "Other" account failed but now I could edit the incoming and outgoing addresses. I entered the IMAP address of IMAP.mail.yahoo.com and the SMTP.mail.yahoo.com address. Along with this, I generated an App password in the Security section of the web Yahoo Mail and used this password in my new attempt to create the "Other" account. After a short delay, this was accepted and my mail started downloading from Yahoo to my Apple Mail.

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User profile for user: eliezerw

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Apr 11, 2024 8:32 AM in response to mgsalinger

After three days of working with AppleCare advisors, deleting and re-establishing my ATT/Yahoo mail account (pacbell.net), including wiping all data from my iPhone and restoring from an iCloud backup, it occurred to me that it was a password problem (I had recently changed my password due to the ATT data breach). The principle of Occam’s Razor — the simplest solution, the most obvious, is the correct one: I changed my password again, then re-entered it on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac; that of course worked — no more errors — which took about 5 minutes.

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User profile for user: rmassaro

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Mar 5, 2024 5:55 AM in response to mgsalinger

Genius- real genius. I have had this issue for years. Thank you.

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User profile for user: MID2170

MID2170

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Apr 29, 2024 8:22 PM in response to MID2170

But I am unable to send emails out. Ughhhh

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User profile for user: mamab4x

mamab4x

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Apr 29, 2024 6:36 PM in response to MID2170

I was having the same issue. I logged into Yahoo and generated an app password. I then used the POP settings to pull my mail on my iMac. The problem was it wasn’t syncing to my other devices! I tried everything I could find, but ended up having to use Outlook mail on my iMac instead of Apple mail. It was the only way to sync between my devices….

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User profile for user: eliezerw

eliezerw

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Jun 4, 2024 5:55 PM in response to mgsalinger

randomuser1001 advises what should be the solution, and I thank him/her/them — I have done the same, over and over and over. That is the problem: apparently the interaction between the MacOS and iOS (or the Mail app) is iffy, often problematic. Even using randomuser's suggestion, which does work (except when it doesn't) I find that the connection to the Yahoo server is inconsistent, and I get the dreaded "!" warning — no connection. During the past two days I have been on the phone with a senior Applecare adviser, alternately deleting and rebuilding my Mail accounts, trying to find a permanent solution — she escalated the issue to the Apple engineers, who presumably will do some surgery on the OS and iOS. At one point I had set up the account on my MacStudio using "Other," on my MacBook, using the "Yahoo" set-up, and likewise two different set-ups on my iPhone and my iPad — and they were working equally well. Then the iPad failed; then the MacBook failed; then the MacStudio failed. So I went back to using only the Yahoo set-up on all four devices, having also changed my ATT/Yahoo password (not the security key) for good measure, beforehand, in the mix of possible solutions, and all four devices are now working in concert...for now. What can I say, except that I know my way well around OS and iOS; I know how to employ all these supposed fixes — now I'll wait for updates that might finally ease the relationship between Yahoo and Apple Mail.

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