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burkey31899
User level: Level 1 (4 points)

Mac Golden Gate - failing to integrate Yahoo mail with Mac mail

Can anyone tell me how to get my yahoo mail account recognised in Mac mail on my Mac mini Mac Golden Gate 27.0? I went to create my yahoo account in mail and then went to my yahoo account separately to get the app password from yahoo. But when I then tried to finish setting up yahoo for Mac mail and entered the app key password it just told me it was the wrong password for my yahoo account

Posted on Sep 23, 2026 10:52 AM

3 replies

KiltedTim
User level: Level 10 (238,530 points)

Sep 23, 2026 12:30 PM in response to burkey31899

Yahoo's mail servers are beyond terrible.


Best advice, either access your Yahoo Mail on the web or switch to an email provider that's not garbage.


Yahoo's mail servers frequently get out of sync with each other and you have no control over which server your authentication request will hit.

den.thed
User level: Level 10 (99,154 points)

Sep 23, 2026 11:56 AM in response to burkey31899

Try manually entering the password for your Yahoo mail account.

burkey31899 Author
User level: Level 1 (4 points)

Sep 27, 2026 9:53 AM in response to den.thed

Thanks for your help but I found the solution elsewhere. I had to change the account server settings - host name

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256363618