{"id":3684,"date":"2012-12-14T18:57:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2020-07-11T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T09:24:34","slug":"yahoo-imap-pop3-smtp-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/yahoo-imap-pop3-smtp-settings","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo: IMAP, POP3, and SMTP settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo supports access via IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols. Below you can find the configuration settings for all protocols.<\/p>\n<div class=\"well\">Yahoo may not accept your main account password, consider following solutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Generate and use third-party app password.\n<ul>\n<li>Go to Account Info\/Account Security\/Manage app password<\/li>\n<li>Generate a new application password<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Use OAuth 2.0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>All Yahoo servers (IMAP, POP3 and SMTP) require SSL\/TLS. SMTP additionally supports explicit SSL (you can use <em>Connect<\/em> method and then secure the channel using <em>StartTLS <\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>IMAP<\/h2>\n<p>Server: <strong>imap.mail.yahoo.com<\/strong><br \/>\nSSL: true-implicit<br \/>\nPort: 993 (default)<br \/>\nUser: pat@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<h2>POP3<\/h2>\n<p>Server: <strong>pop.mail.yahoo.com<\/strong><br \/>\nSSL: true-implicit<br \/>\nPort: 995 (default)<br \/>\nUser: pat@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<h2>SMTP<\/h2>\n<p>Server: <strong>smtp.mail.yahoo.com<\/strong><br \/>\nSSL: false \/ <strong>true-implicit<\/strong><br \/>\nPort: 587 (default) \/ <strong>465<\/strong> (default)<br \/>\nUser: pat@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<p>Following are the code samples for Mail.dll <a href=\"\/mail\">.NET IMAP, POP3 and SMTP component<\/a>.<\/p>\n<pre><pre class=\"brush: csharp; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n\/\/ C#\n\nusing (Imap client = new Imap())\n{\n    client.ConnectSSL(&quot;imap.mail.yahoo.com&quot;);\n    client.UseBestLogin(&quot;pat@yahoo.com&quot;, &quot;password&quot;);\n    ...\n}\n\nusing (Pop3 client = new Pop3())\n{\n    client.ConnectSSL(&quot;pop.mail.yahoo.com&quot;);\n    client.UseBestLogin(&quot;pat@yahoo.com&quot;, &quot;password&quot;);\n    ...\n}\n\nusing (Smtp client = new Smtp ())\n{\n    client.ConnectSSL(&quot;smtp.mail.yahoo.com&quot;);\n    client.UseBestLogin(&quot;pat@yahoo.com&quot;, &quot;password&quot;);\n    ...\n}\n<\/pre>\n<pre><pre class=\"brush: vb; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n' VB.NET\n\nUsing client As New Imap()\n\tclient.ConnectSSL(&quot;imap.mail.yahoo.com&quot;)\n\tclient.UseBestLogin(&quot;pat@yahoo.com&quot;, &quot;password&quot;)\n\t...\nEnd Using\n\nUsing client As New Pop3()\n\tclient.ConnectSSL(&quot;pop.mail.yahoo.com&quot;)\n\tclient.UseBestLogin(&quot;pat@yahoo.com&quot;, &quot;password&quot;)\n\t...\nEnd Using\n\nUsing client As New Smtp()\n\tclient.ConnectSSL(&quot;smtp.mail.yahoo.com&quot;)\n\tclient.UseBestLogin(&quot;pat@yahoo.com&quot;, &quot;password&quot;)\n\t...\nEnd Using\n<\/pre>\n<p>You can find more details about using implicit and explicit SSL or TLS with email protocols:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/use-ssl-with-imap\">Using SSL with IMAP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/use-ssl-with-pop3\">Using SSL with POP3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/use-ssl-with-smtp\">Using SSL with SMTP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo supports access via IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols. Below you can find the configuration settings for all protocols. Yahoo may not accept your main account password, consider following solutions: Generate and use third-party app password. Go to Account Info\/Account Security\/Manage app password Generate a new application password Use OAuth 2.0 All Yahoo servers (IMAP, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,28,42,90,50,57,69],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-dll","tag-c","tag-imap","tag-pop3","tag-settings","tag-smtp","tag-vb-net","tag-yahoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5686,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/5686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}