How to Turn ON Less Secure Apps to your Yahool Account?

Configuration of Yahoo Mail Server to setup the

Yahoo account in Mail Clients

Configuration is a process of setup your email account in a mail client. There are various mail clients are available right now in the market. Gmail ,Yahoo, ThunderBird,Outlook and Aol are some examples of the popular mail clients.Along with this we also have some less secured third party apps which are works as Mail Clients.While configuring the mail server in any of mail client , we must know the Configuration details (i.e SMTP & IMAP ) of that mail server.

And these configuration details are vary from mail server to mail server. i.e the configuration details like SMTP and IMAP Details will be varied to individual mail servers. For example find the configuration details for the gmail as mentioned below

Gmail Configuration Details:

SMTP Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com

SMTP Port: 587

IMAP Host: imap.mail.yahoo.com

Imap Port: 993

If you have abouve configuration details of your email server , you can easily configure your email account in your selected mail client.But in the case of gmail , while you configuring along with having smtp and imap , you must follow below mentioned steps in order to setup your email account in your selected mail client.

In Case of Yahoo as your Mail Server , then you need to follow below 2 steps ,
to Enable the Access to your Mail Client (or) Turn ON Less Secure Apps.

STEP 1: (Sign in to your Yahoo Account)

In this step you just sign in to your Yahoo account.which you want to configure.

Open any browser and go to Yahoo login page & Login to your Yahoo Account by providing valid email and password.

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Note: If you already login into your account just ignore this step.

STEP 2: (Turn ON Less Secure Apps)

After successful login to your Yahoo account,open another tab in the same browser & Click on following link / copy below url and paste it in the new tab url field and press enter,
https://login.yahoo.com/account/security#other-apps

Then it will display the following screen

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 By default the Allow apps that uses less secure sign-in selection will be in “Turn Off” state, means it will not allow the less secured apps to configure the mail server. Now you need to Allow the less secured Apps By Selecting “Turn ON” Option.For this you need to Turn on the Allow apps that uses less secure sign-in.

Then it will be updated as shown in the following screen,

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After making the Turn On to Allow apps that uses less secure sign-in option, just close the window.By doing this you are giving access to for the less secure apps to configure your mail.

By performing above steps your yahoo mail account is ready for setup in your required mail client.

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If you try to configure your gmail account in any one mail client as mentioned above with out performing above mentioned process will rsults the errors like account access is not enabled or unable to configure.

This will be result in the case third party Less Secured Apps & Mail Cients only. Where as in case of Gmail as your Mail client , then no need to perform above steps.