IMAP lets you use any email client, including Gmail, Outlook, and Mozilla Thunderbird, to send and receive Yahoo mail. This guide shows you how to set it up.
What are the IMAP account settings for Yahoo Mail?
To seamlessly access Yahoo Mail in an email program, open the "New Account" section of the program and enter the following settings:
Yahoo Mail supports application passwords. These one-time passwords give a specific program access to your Yahoo Mail account, without having to use your account password if you set up two-factor authentication.
It’s not uncommon to run into account access issues. This happens when a user forgets that they’ve set up their account with two-factor authentication. If you’ve set up two-factor authentication, sign in to your Yahoo account to generate an app password for each computer or mobile device you use for email.
