There was a time, yahoo mail used to be primary email address for every one. People use to feel proud in telling their email address that is ending with the yahoo.com.
But as soon as technology has grown, Several competitors like- Gmail, aol etc. came in the market, and they have outdated the yahoo. That's all because yahoo has stopped focusing on the customer support.
Due to which, people has shifted themselves to the new email account and made their yahoo account as a secondary address. Some people has added it into the mail application on their macbook. So they can easily track the emails, which is coming on the yahoo.
Although, that is a great initiative, but sometimes, users are unable to access the yahoo account. When they open the mail application, an authentication error appears on their yahoo account.
If you are also one of them, whose yahoo account is not working. here are the techniques to fix them. you may apply these techniques on your mail application.
How to fix yahoo mail working in the mail app on the mac pc?
Update the user credentials-
When you open the mail app on the yahoo account and it displays the authentication error on the screen. There might be an issues with the user credentials information. Probably, you have changed the password for your account recently, but didn't update it on the device.
If so, you need to go to the account settings and update the password. now try to sync your mail app with the yahoo account. let's see is it working now or not?
Update the Server details -
If you can't sign into the yahoo email account on the mail app after updating the user details. there might be an issues with the incoming and outgoing servers. So you should check the incoming & outgoing server settings. You may have made a mistake in configuring them. Technically, the server settings for yahoo should be matching to the following one.
IMAP server- imap.mail.yahoo.com port no - 993 SSL - Yes
Pop server- Pop.mail.yahoo.com port no- 995 SSL- Yes
SMTP server- smtp.mail.yahoo.com port no- 465 SSL - Optional
If your current settings doesn't match to these settings, you need to go ahead and correct them.
Update the yahoo account on the phone too-
While, checking the account settings on the mail app, you should also check the network settings. make sure that your macbook is able to access the internet. If not, you need to troubleshoot the connection.
Check the yahoo services-
Sometimes, yahoo mail is not working because of the connection issue. there might be something wrong with the yahoo server. so you should reset the network connection and then retry to access the internet again.
Reconfigures the account -
If you have already made these changes in your yahoo account, but still yahoo mail is not working on the mail application. you should remove the account from the macbook. now reset the yahoo login details and then retry to access the account again. it should be working fine now.
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