Yahoo.com Mail with Outlook 2016

Hello denmarfl01

Hi, I'm Karl and will be happy to help you today.

Am a little unclear about your description, specifically as it applies to your Yahoo <UserID>.

To confirm, you are saying that the login ID used to access this account is NOT an email address - am I understanding that correctly?

If yes, you will need to configure this account using the Control Panel <Mail> app which allows a non email address to be used as the login ID but you would still need to use a valid current Yahoo <App Password> as the password for the email account

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a) - With Outlook closed open the Control Panel <Mail> app

Just in case you need info regarding how to access the Control Panel Mail app, that's described in the following article by Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky

Where is the Control Panel Mail icon?
https://www.slipstick.com/how-to-outlook/where-...

If using Windows 11

How to Open Control Panel in Windows 11
https://www.lifewire.com/open-control-panel-in-...

b) - Click <Email Accounts> --> will default to the <Email> tab
c) - Click on <New>
d( - proceed accordingly

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I created the Yahoo acct using as my ID an 8 Letter nickname....as opposed to using the my Yahoo email ....

With Outlook closed, I went to Control panel, clicked MAIL....selected the email accounts tab (there were Tabs Data Files and Profiles so you can know I had the correct Window Opened)....I selected NEW on the next Window, I entered my Name, I entered my 8 alpha ID in the Box shown as E-Mail Address, entered my Password Twice....the NEXT button on that window would not become active....so I could not proceed.

Would suggest configuring the account manually instead of letting Outlook configure it automatically. Am not quite sure if the auto-configuration process accepts a non-email address user-id

Just to be sure, you need to use the Yahoo <App Password> as the account email password. Also, when configuring the account manually, be sure to set our Outbound server to authenticate against the Inbound server

IMAP server settings for Yahoo Mail
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4075.html

POP access settings and instructions for Yahoo Mail
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4724.html

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