Yahoo mail SMTP settings

Question

I'm trying to send/receive my Yahoo mail with a desktop mail program (Thunderbird). Mail receiving is working fine, but not mail sending. My e-mail address is [email protected] and the settings I'm using are:

Can someone verify whether these are the correct mail-sending (SMTP) settings for Yahoo?

Solution

There are two methods for using SSL/TLS with SMTP (and other protocols): implicit and explicit ("STARTTLS").

You have configured Thunderbird to use "SSL/TLS", which is implicit SSL, but you have pointed it to smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk port 587, with which the server expects SSL to be activated explicitly.

• Either keep the port 587 change Connection Security to "STARTTLS",
• or change the port to 465 and set Connection Security to "SSL/TLS".

Comments

[Joshua Slocum]

I think the servers are different for @yahoo.co.uk addresses help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/pop/pop-114.html