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Setting up Yahoo mail in mail.app
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Whitchurch, Hampshire, England
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Hi all.
I have just bought a new iMac and am trying to set up Mail so that I can read my Yahoo mail on it. However, every time Mail tries to connect to Yahoo's server I get the following message:
"The yahoo.co.uk POP server “plus.pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk” is not responding. Try checking the network connection, and that the server name is correct. Otherwise, the server might be temporarily unavailable. If you continue, you might not be able to receive messages."
AFAIK the server address is correct. Any ideas?
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There are too many fools following too many rules.
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Mac Elite
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Are you a plus user? Try pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk and see if that helps.
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MacBook Pro 13" 2.8GHz Core i7/8GB RAM/750GB Hard Drive - Mac OS X 10.7.3
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Yahoo only offers webmail (except for the iPhone/iPod touch due to a special deal with Apple).
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Originally Posted by TETENAL 
Yahoo only offers webmail (except for the iPhone/iPod touch due to a special deal with Apple).
True, but you can also pay to have POP access and use Mail.app. I tried my spam account in Mail and it informed me that I need to have a paid account to access it.
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MacBook Pro 13" 2.8GHz Core i7/8GB RAM/750GB Hard Drive - Mac OS X 10.7.3
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Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2000
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Originally Posted by 64stang06
I tried my spam account in Mail and it informed me ...
I have long wondered who was sending all that stuff. kudos for persistence.
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When I bought our first iMac in April 2009, tech support said that yahoo could not be accessed through Apple Mail. I tried and got the same error message.
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Addicted to MacNN
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Originally Posted by 64stang06
True, but you can also pay to have POP access and use Mail.app.
I don't think they still offer this.
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Administrator Join Date: Jun 2000
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
I don't think they still offer this.
I was just asked by Yahoo to renew my Plus account so it's still available.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Whitchurch, Hampshire, England
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Thanks for all the info.
The odd thing is on my old Mac I did manage to get Mai to connect to my Yahoo account but I gave up on it because of the time it took importing thousands of saved messages. With this being a much faster Mac I thought it'd be worth a try again.
Wonder when it changed?
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There are too many fools following too many rules.
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Originally Posted by reader50
I have long wondered who was sending all that stuff. kudos for persistence.
Yeah, spam account as in junk mail account I use to register for websites.
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MacBook Pro 13" 2.8GHz Core i7/8GB RAM/750GB Hard Drive - Mac OS X 10.7.3
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Australia
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Its works fine for me with free yahoo, I seem to recall yahoo.co.uk allows pop access while yahoo.com does not.
my settings:
incoming: pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk
with SSL turned on with port 995 and password identification in advanced.
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