Email passwords

I recently changed my yahoo passwords and updated the new info on my iMac settings email tab. when i go to my mail, it keeps asking me to update my password again and again: the message is get:The Yahoo IMAP server imap.mail.yahoo.com rejected the password for user.

I typed the right password again and again.

2. what does synchronize email do?

3. it keeps asking me for the "incoming mail server"? i dunno what that is.


PS: Please answer me like you'll explain something to a little kid cuz i am not a geek. thank u

Where did you change your passwords for Yahoo? Did you go direct to their mail server? And did you make the necessary changes in Mail preferences, accounts?

Hi,

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what does synchronize email do?

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Have a look here, saves me typing as I am writing this on the phone.
Sync your e-mail messages | Macworld

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it keeps asking me for the "incoming mail server"? i dunno what that is.

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Something like mail.yahoo.com
And as chscag said you need to alter your email clients accounts settings as well, if you changed things on the email server.

omg im sorry i forgot to check this. i haven't really looked at my emails cuz it doesnt work on my mac mail and never checked the regular yahoo site mail. sorry.

Where did you change your passwords for Yahoo? Did you go direct to their mail server? And did you make the necessary changes in Mail preferences, accounts? i changed the passwords on yahoo site.. is that the mail server, if so, then i guess, i did. and on the mac mail preferences. all i did was updated the password.. i dunno what the rest meant... so i didn't change it.

And as chscag said you need to alter your email clients accounts settings as well, if you changed things on the email server.


if i only changed the password on the yahoo site, what else is there do i have to change on mac mail? umm , i didnt change anything else.. or did something else got changed when i changed the password. as it is now, i just deleted everything cuz it kept asking me the same thing.. good thing i have my gmail account that hasn't changed since i got this last october. oh well. thank u guys for your time. i'm hella smart on other things but not techy things..lol

im gonna try to figure out my imac specs and put it on my profile like you guys have.. hmmm lol

Hi,

Try this in the Mac mail Yahoo account settings,or check this is what you have.
Incoming mail server (pop3) = plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com
Outgoing mail server (SMPT) = plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Or

Incoming mail server (pop3) = pop.mail.yahoo.com
Outgoing mail server (SMPT) = smtp.mail.yahoo.com

incoming mail server:imap.mail.yahoo.com no pop word i can see

Outgoing mail server (SMPT): Yahoo

umm oh my icloud is not working either. so i turned it off. i deleted my mobileme account but i couldn't figure out how to make the icloud mail, work. i know, so dumb. sorry.

oh it worked. i was able to put my mac specs on my profile. yay!