Outlook Not Accepting Yahoo Password?

Chiz · 15 Apr 2008 at 10:18

Yesterday Oulook 2003 stopped accepting my yahoo password.

[edited with more information]

Basically the outgoing mail server (SMTP) is not accepting my Yahoo password, and is failing to connect.

I can receive emails alright, but i cannot send what so ever. I'm currently using plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com as my server and have tried smtp.mail.yahoo.com also.

I've also changed the Outgoing Server from 465 (with SSL) to 587 and 25 without. This has still not worked?!?!?!

I find this wierd considering it's been working fine for the past year or so.

Very, very annoying!

I've cleared my profile and also changed passwords a couple of times..

Chiz · 15 Apr 2008 at 10:20

... It's working now...

Now i have roughly 1000 emails to archive and sort out now. GREAT FUN!!!

Chiz · 15 Apr 2008 at 10:24

Wait.. i take that back. I can receive mail alright but whenever i try to send mail, i'm greeted with the username / password box?

Chiz · 15 Apr 2008 at 10:25

'plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com' is what i have as the server. I remember this being slightly different than before. I think i simply had smtp.mail.yahoo before but according to Yahoo, the 'plus' should be there?

Chiz · 15 Apr 2008 at 10:39

Yep, mines was set the same as yours previously, and then all of a sudden, i've been failing to connect...

Chiz · 15 Apr 2008 at 11:11

Ok, after a reinstall and also testing out my other Yahoo account, the same happens.

Unfortunately i do not have another pc to test this with. I have no idea why this is happening.

Chiz · 15 Apr 2008 at 14:56

m4cc45 - I don't look Outlook Express either :-P

Again, this has been working for years, and i've manually configured Outlook 03 plenty of times to work with Yahoo and various other, so i can guarantee it's not a setting which is at fault.

There's something underlying here, because this is happening with both yahoo email accounts now, and Outlook doesn't manually change it's settings by itself... or does it???????????????

Chiz · 15 Apr 2008 at 15:29

It was Yahoo after all. For some reason i had to change to the smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk when previously this didn't work at all. Also had to change ports.

All i needed was a kick in the right direction so m4cc45.. Thanks a lot man!!!!

Chiz · 16 Apr 2008 at 12:31

Problem after problem now.

Can't send. Receiving multiple emails... (0x800CCC0F & 0x800CCC90)

After a little bit of research.. i think i have to subscribe to Yahoo Plus to get outlook working correctly.

Can anyone else back this up? or is there any standard yahoo users successfully using Outlook?