Credit to: How to set up IMAP Yahoo Mail with Apple Mail Note: You do not need to be a Mail Plus subscriber to take advantage of IMAP. In Apple Mail, add a new account and after entering a full name, email address and password, hold down the Option key. The Create button will change to Continue, allowing one to manually configure the account settings. Use the following settings: Incoming Server - imap.mail.yahoo.com Outgoing Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com Incoming Port - 993 (requires SSL) Outgoing Port - 465 (requires SSL/TLS) Username: full email address (example: ) Password: the password you login to Yahoo with. Make sure to identify four mailboxes as special: Drafts, Trash, Sent and Bulk Mail (Junk). For example, in the left pane under the heading 'On My Mac' under the Yahoo account, select the Draft folder.

Then on the menu bar select Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For > Drafts. Do this for the other 3 mailboxes to make sure your mail gets sorted correctly. Just to close the loop on this: I was able to get it to work. I created a brand new Yahoo account, and was able to do the setup in Mac Mail with no problem. Since the only change had been my password, I investigated a bit and found that the length of the password was causing the problems.

I shortened the password to under 20 characters, and everthing started working again. So, apparently, Mac Mail truncates strings in the interaction with Yahoo. The web interface worked fine, and the iPod Touch did too, just the Mac had the problems. Markie: I would like to update you on how I was able to solve this problem.

It is not a flattering depiction of Yahoo support. There is a problem with apple mail settings being recognized by Yahoo servers after outages.

It puts the settings into a state of suspended animation. 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.

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. They answer using Windows conventions. 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 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. Over 10 people at Yahoo had never heard of IMAP. Apple Mail takes IMAP.MAIL.YAHOO.COM. Having tried several solutions.

In the E-mail Address field, enter your full email address. In the Password field, enter your email password. In the User name field, enter your full email address. POP access settings and instructions for Yahoo Mail. POP (Post Office Protocol) is 1 way to get Yahoo Mail in a desktop or mobile app. POP downloads copies of your email, so you can move and delete them in the app without affecting the original emails. Outlook for Mac 2011: Configure How Messages Are Marked as Read When Viewed in Reading Pane. Posted April 27, 2011 by Rob Rogers in Apple Mac, Microsoft Outlook. In the E-mail section, select Reading. Go to the Mark mail as read section. Red giant universe mac crack. If you have just installed Outlook 2011 it will show in your Dock. If you see a Welcome to Outlook screen, click Add Account. Otherwise click Tools > Accounts > Add Accountfrom the Apple Menu bar.

I became resigned to the problem. I was frustrated with the limited session capability. Keychains, password, settings, ports, etc. Try this only after you saved all your current settings.

• I then decided to delete all my accounts in Apple Mail. Mail>Preferences>Account>Hit '-' sign • I then deleted all of the keychains associated with yahoo.com.

Use Keychain.app. • The next time you log into Apple Mail you will be prompted using the initial setup screen. This helps with the suspension.I call it funk. • I then went to gmail.com 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. • Low and behold, I noticed GMAIL SMTP settings included a colon followed by my email address. • So I configured the GMAIL client and added this first. How to plot lines point in grapher for mac. This took out the suspended animation out of the password error message.

My Apple Mail client worked right away and I was able to send and receive emails for free. No fee, no hassle. • Then just for grins, I tried reconfiguring Yahoo again.I used Mail>Preferences>Account>Hit plus> and used the correct IMAP and SMTP settings and the client immediately started working without the suspended animation. Somehow, the syncing gets screwed up after outages. I switched from Classic Yahoo mail to Yahoo Plus as well which may have helped my settings. Yahoo has a forced march going on to pay for services that everyone else has for free. I am guessing the following: Outages throw off Apple Mail settings due to recalibration problems at Yahoo.( My Mail worked well with Classic until the outage occured.) Classic Mail takes the old POP settings that probably worked fine until the suspension occurs.