Windows 10: i'm trying to add a yahoo email a/c to ms mail and as soon as I click yahoo a/c in the drop...

I'm trying to add a yahoo email a/c to ms mail and as soon as I click yahoo a/c in the drop down list I get an error code 0x80070003 can you help?I have tried this a number of times over the last few hours with the same result.

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error 0x8007042b when adding a Yahoo Mail account to MS Mail App

I went this route and added passwords for yahoo mail. I might try this method above to get gmail to buck up! *Tongue

@Bastet, this is probably what you were referring to the whole time.


YAHOO MAIL FIX
2FA needs to be enabled which it already was and just follow these steps below.

1. In yahoo mails account security, click on manage app passwords.




2. After selecting other app and entering the new app name in the text box




3. Now, in Windows 10 mail app, add this type of account.




4. In Windows 10 mail app, enter your details and the password generated by step 2.




Fully functional mail app again.



GMAIL FIX

Now similar steps to setting up Gmail. Here I'll only go through the Gmail steps as Windows Mail App setup is the exact same.

Follow this jpeg below, all steps are merged as there's a 5 attachment limit.





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I've edited it to show the solution for Gmail also.

 

error 0x8007042b when adding a Yahoo Mail account to MS Mail App

Yes, once 2-factor authentication is enabled you should then create the app specific password & enter it instead of the account password.

 

ATT.net as Homepage, Yahoo as mail

Using MS Edge as browser and MS Mail as email.

• How do I set ATT.net as homepage and Att.net/Yahoo as mail?

Thank you