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<p dir="auto">Yes, accessing my Yahoo account via web browser and creating an “App Password” for MailMate and using this password in MailMate to log in seems to have fixed this issue. </p>
<p dir="auto">I don’t know why this problem isn’t showing up with my 3 other Yahoo accounts. Not that I’m complaining…</p>
<p dir="auto">Dave</p>
<p dir="auto">On 30 Oct 2020, at 12:11, Dave C wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Thank you Alex for your suggestion.</p>
<p dir="auto">No, I have not created any app-specific passwords for any of my Yahoo accounts. I would expect that other of the accounts would have this persistent error if this was the reason.</p>
<p dir="auto">On 29 Oct 2020, at 21:38, Alexandre Takacs wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 30 Oct 2020, at 0:45, Dave C wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Maybe this is related to the 2-step verification that Yahoo has been touting, but I don’t think so: none of my other Yahoo accounts is having this issue.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Did you generate <a href="https://help.yahoo.com/kb/generate-third-party-passwords-sln15241.htm">third-party app passwords</a> ?</p>
<p dir="auto">Regards</p>
<p dir="auto">A. Takacs<br>
Augicom SA<br>
+41 (22) 301 16 00</p>
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