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Yep when yahoo changed to app specific passwords from the simple config option to allow login from less secure apps they broke the receiving IMAP function. Funny though the SMTP connection to their server still connects ok. In the early stages from March to April 2020 app specific pwds worked... then now it broken totally. On 10.6.8 with osx mail 4.6 It remains broken. While POSTBOX on the same machine to the same Yahoo account works FINE! Then for further triage, I test yahoo app specific pwds with a 10.8.5 and osx mail 6.6 and it is also broken. But AGAIN POSTBOX app worked fine. Why doesn't Yahoo simply run their server as before the app specific password fiasco? They broke it on the key default apple osx app and I lost unified access to yahoo accounts through osx mail because of this half *** change. To make my point clearer the same 10.6.8 with osx mail 4.6 still connects fine to over 6 gmail accounts via their less secure app settings. YAHOO NEEDS TO FIX THEIR WHOLE APP SPECIFIC PASSWORD SETUP OR SIMPLY REVERT BACK TO THE LESS SECURE APPS OPTION - --- IF GMAIL CAN DO IT YAHOO CAN DO IT. ... YAHOO HIRE BETTER PEOPLE AND REINSTALL THE pre- app password server configs..... geez