cox has transferred their email to yahoo, now outlook will not accept the email account how do you connect

What a pain in the b***s... There has to be another way... so annoying

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Hey there.

I am using Outlook 2010 that came with my Pro MSOffice Suite. There are a couple of things that can screw up your transition to Yahoo from Cox.net. It all has to do with Secure Logins and "spoofing" blocks at Yahooty.

1. You cannot login to Yahooty from a 3rd Party ONBOARD app like Outlook 2010 (or 2016) using your regular Yahoo account password. Just can't do it so stop fiddling with your settings. You must obtain an "App specific password" from Yahooty. The links to getting one are under your Account Security. It's easy. Open a browser sign it to your Yahoo (myname)@cox.net account and sniff about. Look for "Generate App Password".
2. Once you obtain the app specific password, copy it to a safe place. You may need it again.
3. Open your app, and get to the advanced setting where it lists all the good stuff like ports, and servers and such and replace your account password with the app specific password. Don't forget to have the app remember it. (that's the security bugaboo. Yahooty don't like apps that they didn't write remembering YOUR password.

You should be good to go EXCEPT for one more thing. In those App Advance Settings, you might have had a REPLY TO address. Make sure it is BLANK. Otherwise, Yahooty will NOT send your email. That's the anti-spoofing deal. You will get a bounce back with words to the effect of "ERROR 550 Unknown Mailbox" or some such junk. And by junk, you know the word I meant.

That should do it.

Hello - I do not see all of my folders in outlook that I created while COX was our provider. I can see them in yahoo mail on my pc under folders (not in the in box). But I cannot see them on my iphone mail account unless I select COX. They did not transfer to my Yahoo account. Is there a way to get the folders 'back' again. Thanks in advance.

This was a great video and solved my problem.Cox was useless to try to solve this problem.

Again thank you for this informative video

Bill Chambers