Windows 10: Windows Mail Issue. Only some emails from Yahoo account being received

Hi. I recently changed my password for Yahoo. This "broke" my windows mail account, and could find no way to reconcile it. No matter how many times I updated the account information, it continued to display and error and would not sync. I deleted the account and added it back again, and this seemingly went well. However, for some reason I am not only getting a portion of my emails from Yahoo through the app, and can't seem to find rhyme or reason for what is causing this. With the handshaking taking place now, there doesn't seem to be any advanced settings location, and I don't even see an are

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Yahoo account won't receive mail


I've started using Mail app in Wndows 10 on a trial basis, on my desktop PC.

I've added my Yahoo mail account and can send emails but cannot receive them.

I tried using a solution offered in a post on another thread, by logging into my Yahoo account, and going to security to add a specific password for my account for apps, but cannot find any option to do this.

The only option it offers is to use/disable less secure options.

Any help would be appreciated.

Update: Mail started being received 30 minutes after I had sent it from another email client.

Gripes about Mail app:

• Emails can't be saved to desktop
• Font defaults can't be set size and text chosen, eg Arial

 

Yahoo mail - alternative accounts

Could anybody please explain in finite detail how to create an alternative email account in Yahoo and how to verify it ?

Ex.
My primary account = fred @yahoo.com, username = Fred

I created an alternative account :-
john @yahoo.com, username = John

All seemed to go OK and I received an email from yahoo to my primary account saying that john @yahoo.com was available for use. But this alt. account is marked "Verify" in blue.

Clicking "Verify" gets nowhere and everything I try fails. John does not exist until verified and as I cannot verify John it is useless.

Yahoo say they have sent an email to john @yahoo.com giving the codes etc. needed to verify the account, but as the account is not available until it is verified, the Yahoo email, if it exists cannot be read.

Every attempt I make to access john @yahoo.com is not accepted and after 3 attempts, Yahoo locks it up for 12-24 hours. It is just stuck there doing nothing and is useless.

For Yahoo to send a verification email to an account that does not exist until verified, is about as crazy as one can get. Unbelievable !
All verifying emails should be sent to the primary account which DOES EXIST. so that I can verify an alternative account with no trouble at all.

I have searched the web thoroughly until I am sick of the matter, spent many hours on the issue and got nowhere. I have done everything I can find on the issue from Yahoo Support and dozens of users, but all I achieve is for Yahoo to lock the account up after 3 tries. It is simply a waste of time.

My primary account remains unaffected by all this nonsense for which I am eternally grateful.

Can somebody please help on this ?

PS - The email accounts given are fictitious and are for example only. The space added is to prevent the system from highlighting them in blue.

 

email account hacked. please help

Thanks MailMan78. Just did what BarbaricSoul said but I am still receiving spam from my own account, don't know what to do. I have contacted yahoo about issue and to restore my emails. Also now yahoo offers "Step two verification"