Email Switch to Yahoo and Outlook

What if you use the yahoo mail app to login?  Enter username and password, then it will have you update your password. When I set mine up  thought it failed, but hours later it worked. 

If you are on a pc, you can go into the control panel then mail and make changes to the server settings.  I tried two different email accounts, one IMAP the other a POP Cox account, but changing the server settings to the Yahoo servers didn't help.  I still would not connect.

OK I finally got it to work.  The key was to create a new account and manually enter the yahoo mail server settings.   I also had Yahoo create a one-time outlook app password.  I ended with an account called "myname.cox.net(1)"  but I can fix that.  Some of the suggestions I tried following were confusing because there are different variants of Outlook in use.  I have the enterprise version of Outlook 365.

Now I just have to merge my old .pst file so I can recover my old address book.

wirewheels

Thanks for sharing. I haven't received the go email form Cox yet but expecting very soon. I am running Outlook 2019 PC.  Yes, multiple variants has generated some confusion. I appreciate your experience and it may help me.

Can I presume that you did "not" activate two form authentication before or as part of this transition? I am trying to keep my transition process plan (for Outlook) as simple as possible, (no additional code scripts to confuse the Yahoo servers).

You mentioned you knew how to resolve the myname.cox.net(1); are you referring to removing the (1)? Can you share I have this situation as well.

Thanks

Richard

If you mean two-factor for Yahoo, yes I did.  

Outlook added a (1) suffix automatically because I did not delete my original account first.  

mbarrett8

Thanks for sharing. I expect to receive the go email very soon. So to be clear.  I use Outlook 2019 windows desktop as my primary email application, filing filtering etc. And I expected to "simply" change existing pop, smtp, ports, encryption (as listed in yahoo doc). And new password (that I presume is necessary when you sign up for Yahoo web access). Does that sound like your process?

I am beginning to see recommendations that one needs to use the Yahoo password generator app; on their web site? Di you investigate that? Note that it still unclear to me if the Outlook setup should use the new password (setup during web phase of yahoo) or the new password that the app generator produces.

I would appreciate your thoughts on this?

Richard

Your are correct in that you use password generator in Yahoo for the password you enter into Outlook for with the server setting.  Not your Yahoo password you use to log into your account.  DonSheay posted a link that shows exactly what to do. 

Note: there are two the outgoing mail server ports listed (465 & 587).  I and another have had "failure" with one and success with the other.  So is one doesn't work, use the other.

FYI - I use Office 2016 on a Windows 10 PC.  Outlook is part of the Office suite. 

I used the select provider option and Yahoo was there.

bryanibphx,

  I'm running Windows 10 on a PC, the add/delete function looks a bit different than in your post.  However, changing the POP or IMAP server settings (manually or otherwise) to the posted instructions on Yahoo (pop.mail.yahoo.com/imap.mail.yahoo.com),, port etc.   I get the same message of unable to connect to incoming server.  As stated before, I believe it is an extension issue with yahoo.com and cox.net addresses.  

The screenshot is from Outlook for Windows, not Outlook in an Office suite.

After creating the app password per the instruction in the link provided by DonSeay, incoming connected but outgoing didn't as I switched to port 587.  When I switched back to port 465, outgoing connected and now I too am able to send and receive through Outlook to/from the Yahoo account.

Hats off to DonSeay for the link he found and provided.

Was your Outlook account using pop or imap settings?

Use imap settings for incoming servers when resetting Outlook to work with Yahoo.  These are the servers which must be reset in Outlook.

Incoming:  imap.mail.yahoo.com

Outgoing:  smtp.mail.yahoo.com

I have tried these new settings along with the new Yahoo password, and it doesn't work. I have Outlook from Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2021. I have also tried the "Repair" function in Outlook and also no luck.

Were you able to use Yahoo's Web Browser email client to see your email after you changed over?  If so, that means your changeover was successful.

We would then have to know at what point in the Outlook setup process it failed on you and what it said on your screen when it failed.

Yes, I was able to use Yahoo's Web Browser email client to see my email after I changed over.

After I entered my new password and the new IMAP settings, I hit the "Next" button. After a few seconds I get this message: "Something went wrong and Outlook couldn't save your account settings. Please try again."

This user forum is the only real Help function. Cox support and Yahoo (free) support is either not available or is useless.  The pain of switching to new email addresses has been what has previously kept me from leaving Cox "services". In the coming weeks it looks like I won't have to change my email address if I leave Cox. It might be time to spend my money elsewhere.  Sad!

Cox has transistioned our email to Yahoo. You will need to login to yahoo mail and use your Cox email address (must include the @cox.net extenstion) and password. Upon logging into Yahoo you will be prompted to change your password. Going forward you would continue to use your cox username (with extension) and the new password but now your email will have to be accessed through Yahoo. Hope this helps. 

P.S. yahoo email login here:

https://mail.yahoo.com/login

Great work.  I struggled with how to get that done within the original email account in Outlook.  I know someone that called Yahoo tech support and they remoted in and made changes in the original email account so it would work, after waiting on hold for over 90 minutes.

Thank you! Finally got it to work.

I forgot one thing. When Outlook creates a new account, the location of the outlook.pst data file this creates may be in your "Documents/Outlook Files" folder. But my current Outlook.pst file is in the "<username>/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook" folder. So I had to change the Outlook data file location where the "New" Cox email account looks to find it.

I forgot one thing. When Outlook creates a new account, the location of the outlook.pst data file this creates may be in your "Documents/Outlook Files" folder. But my current Outlook.pst file is in the "<username>/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook" folder. So I had to change the Outlook data file location where the "New" Cox email account looks to find it. I can help with that if needed. Otherwise, you end up with 2 inboxes.

I forgot one thing. When Outlook creates a new account, the location of the outlook.pst data file this creates may be in your "Documents/Outlook Files" folder. But my current Outlook.pst file is in the "<username>/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook" folder. So I had to change the Outlook data file location where the "New" Cox email account looks to find it. I can help with that if needed. Otherwise, you end up with 2 inboxes. So what you do is when you are in the window/box where you change the Incoming and Outgoing servers to Yahoo, at the bottom of the box is where you select "Use an existing data file," then browse to find your existing Outlook.pst data file.