smtp.mail.yahoo.com without SSL?

[St]

Hello,

Got two question:

1.) I've got an alarm device that automaically used to sent emails to my email address via smtp.mail.yahoo.com port 25.
This has worked until well into December last year (2013).
It now doeasn't work anymore. Settings have remained unchanged (user name, PW etc...).

Error is "Failed to authenticate to smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
When using port 587, it returns the same error.

All other ports need SSL/TLS but the device doesn't support any of these unfortunately (which in this case isn't really necessary).

Does anyone know where the problem could be?


2.) Was looking for an easy to find link to contact Yahoo directly. But where is it? CustServ is only on Facebook and Twitter. How awkward....
Does anyone know the link?

[Barkley Hound]

It is port 465.

In order to use a separate email client, such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, or Thunderbird, to receive Yahoo Mail you can use POP3 or IMAP. In order to send email you need SMTP. The servers are as follows:

Incoming (POP3)
pop.mail.yahoo.com
SSL
Port 995

Outgoing (SMTP)
smtp.mail.yahoo.com
SSL and TLS
Port 465

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[Linda]

my yahoo account won't forward to my mac mail app anymore... I've followed so many different instructions, mostly telling me to set up the IMAP and using port 993 with outgoing mail. I'm just changing back and forth, I'll try this and thanks. "Hours spent on this sudden drop of email " - people mad at me.. my "main" email address.. and other tragedies..