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After a couple of weeks I found the answer, after my desktop Outlook was not syncing with only one of my yahoo emails anymore. Strangely, the other yahoo accounts were still syncing.
The answers here from HM and CB are indeed correct.
Here are the full instructions for it. I hope this will stop people from spending many hours trying to fix this issue, like I did.
Please tick, should it have been helpful, as that will possibly take it to the top of the thread, and hopefully stop people from spending hours of searching and trying, like I did.
OUTLOOK DESKTOP NOT SYNCING (ANYMORE) FROM CERTAIN YAHOO EMAIL ACCOUNTS
Generate Yahoo App Password for Outlook
Go to:
Yahoo mail
On right top “your own name”
Click Just underneath: “account info”
“account security”
“other ways to sign in”
“generate and manage app passwords”
Generate new app password.
Type app: “Outlook”.
It now generates a new app password. (you should copy this and paste it in Outlook, for instructions, see further below)
If it doesn’t do this, like it didn’t for me.
- It could be that you first have to delete the previous app password. (this for me still didn’t make a difference)
- If it still does not generate a new app password, do it in a different browser. (You may have to clear the history first, and you may then have to restart the computer, which I did, but it may not be nescesary..!”)
So: If using Chrome, use Edge (or similar) (and visa versa), then do the above to generate the app password.
This should work!
How to import the Yahoo Generated App Password into Outlook:
Importing the app password into Outlook:
Outlook:
(Go into the settings of the email which is not syncing anymore.)
“File”
Account information: top of the page, click the account with the syncing issues.
“account settings”
“server Settings”
“Incoming mail:” “paste the App Generator Password from yahoo” under user name.
Tick: “remember password”
Click: “outgoing emails”
Tick: My outgoing (SMTP) server requires authentication
Tick: Use same settings as my incoming email server
“next”.
This should update the password, and start the email account syncing properly immediately.