This took out the suspended animation out of the password error message.

So I configured the GMAIL client and added this first.

Low and behold, I noticed GMAIL SMTP settings included a colon followed by my email address.

I then went to and added a new email client to see if it was just my computer that had DSL hiccups or the wireless router was not syncing right.

This helps with the suspension.I call it funk.

The next time you log into Apple Mail you will be prompted using the initial setup screen.

I then deleted all of the keychains associated with.

I then decided to delete all my accounts in Apple Mail.

Try this only after you saved all your current settings. Keychains, password, settings, ports, etc. I was frustrated with the limited session capability. Over 10 people at Yahoo had never heard of IMAP. Once I spoke to Yahoo they lead me down the microsoft POP3 or POP methods for restoring settings and I mentioned IMAP and they did not know what this was. I went to the Apple Store nearby and spoke to the Genius Bar person who the Store had seen several people (well over 100) in the last week who had the password problem. Once I discovered that 10.6 and later LION required Yahoo Plus, I decided to upgrade knowing full well that this would be my last year using Yahoo not due to technical problems, but a general ineptness in understanding anything Mac and not knowing that outages occured last week. The last outage occured 1 week ago for three hours which left over one million users stranded with no service and the syncing that my Apple Mail client was occuring regularly with Yahoo Classic was thrown off by this outage.

It puts the settings into a state of suspended animation. There is a problem with apple mail settings being recognized by Yahoo servers after outages. It is not a flattering depiction of Yahoo support. I would like to update you on how I was able to solve this problem. Do this for the other 3 mailboxes to make sure your mail gets sorted correctly. Then on the menu bar select Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For > Drafts. Make sure to identify four mailboxes as special: Drafts, Trash, Sent and Bulk Mail (Junk).įor example, in the left pane under the heading 'On My Mac' under the Yahoo account, select the Draft folder. Password: the password you login to Yahoo with. The Create button will change to Continue, allowing one to manually configure the account settings. In Apple Mail, add a new account and after entering a full name, email address and password, hold down the Option key. Note: You do not need to be a Mail Plus subscriber to take advantage of IMAP. How to set up IMAP Yahoo Mail with Apple Mail

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