Error when sending Yahoo mail through Gmail.

Abbafan1972

Hi everyone,

I use gmail and have 2 other addresses that I pick up and sent emails through it.  Just recently, one of them that I use to enter comps has started acting up and I have been receiving delivery failure notices, saying that it "failed to process account credentials".  Emails are received ok though.  

The email is a Yahoo.co.uk one. 

Is there something I need to update to get it to work again?  

Thanks in advance. 

Neil_Jones

Credentials normally mean incorrect password.

Yahoo recently changed their procedure for using SMTP access.  You will need to open your Yahoo account and create an application specific password to use in the Gmail settings.

forgotmyname

Have you been logging into Yahoo via its website or other yahoo app?

They made some changes because few people actually used their webmail or app, bypassing their

data collection and advertising.  You should have agreed to them collecting your data and adding

adverts etc.  Did you do that?

Abbafan1972

forgotmyname said:

Have you been logging into Yahoo via its website or other yahoo app?

They made some changes because few people actually used their webmail or app, bypassing their

data collection and advertising.  You should have agreed to them collecting your data and adding

adverts etc.  Did you do that?

I have been using Gmail.  I really don't know about the advertising thing.

It's all sorted now - I deleted the email from my Gmail, then created the web app password and then re-added the account to my Gmail and it seems to be working now.