Why make a good thing complicated and bad?
The privacy settings require me to have my phone able to receive messages to access my mail. I travel a lot for work and cannot always receive messages, making it impossible to access my mail while I travel.
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Hello there. To resolve this issue (unless you have the account key enabled), you can make sure to add an alternate email address, to receive the code to it: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2058.html