The automatic settings may fail because usually try to access the POP3 server, but passwords give error, not user “plus”. Sure this information is on the website of Yahoo, the fact is that I learned a few years ago and this week we have been asked several times, so we put it here for interest.
Yahoo is the typical account that is accessed by web, mail access via POP3 only available in your Bill Pay, Yahoo Plus, which is a bit … well … if you want to configure access through your own client mail but … no problem, you can do for IMAP. In the web pages of these webmail clients can find the necessary information in most clients find in the top menu with a button that is usually something kind Tools -> Add Account, you open a window where you have to go completing the data that I put below. The mail server imap.mail.yahoo.com or the mail server .com is not responding the mail server is not responding is not responding Many people prefer to use a local mail client to read mail that the browser, if you have an account type Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo will have to configure the SMTP and POP or IMAP to use them from the local mail client.