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Hi Gang --
Need a little help with Yahoo! mail on my new MacBook Pro. I have incoming IMAP working fine but outgoing SMTP is not. I know Yahoo! USED to require a Plus account to POP your mail but that they set-up IMAP for Mac mail users as of December 2011.
I let the Mac mail determine the set-up for Yahoo! itself, trying not to break the golden rule of letting Mac do what it knows how to do best without interference. When it didn't work I read all kinds of strings on it online (it has changed so many times, it seems.)
Can someone please help me?
Need a little help with Yahoo! mail on my new MacBook Pro. I have incoming IMAP working fine but outgoing SMTP is not. I know Yahoo! USED to require a Plus account to POP your mail but that they set-up IMAP for Mac mail users as of December 2011.
I let the Mac mail determine the set-up for Yahoo! itself, trying not to break the golden rule of letting Mac do what it knows how to do best without interference. When it didn't work I read all kinds of strings on it online (it has changed so many times, it seems.)
- I tried changing the port (currently it assigns to default ports 25, 485, 587 -- whichever is available, I guess.)
- I've tried assigning a myriad of ports suggested online
- I've tried with and without SSL
- I've tried reading Yahoo!'s help sheet on it, which suggests setting it up yourself and holding the option key down while doing so to get the word create to change to continue (no idea why?)
- I've tried deleting the email account and re-setting it up from scratch.
- I called my ISP to make sure there wasn't a special string I needed to have typed in like "centurylink.smtp.mail.yahoo.com" (they said no -- but did confirm that they needed to remove a block from port 25 since it's often used by spammers -- they supposedly removed this, while I was on the phone)
- I tried powering down my Ipad, in case of interference from one to the other.
Can someone please help me?