Fixing Comcast email since the move to Yahoo on Mac Mail
After migrating your email to Yahoo.
On Yahoo's website, once you are logged in to your account, instead of using the password Yahoo created for the new account, do this.
Password
1. If in mail, go to your account settings, click on your icon in the upper right-hand corner, select manage your account
2. Under the main search bar at the top, click Security
3 Scroll down to the box that says external connections
4. Select the app passwords tab
5. There will be a "Create app password" button. Click it. If you do have other app passwords to the right of the box there is an icon and link that says "Create App Password." Click it.
6. This pops up a dialogue box: Enter your app's name. Put in something like Mac Mail.
7. Click Generate Password.
8. Another dialogue box will pop up with your password and an option to copy it. Click copy
9. Go to Mac Mail
10. On the Apple bar, select Mail, then add account.
11. Type in your email address.
12. In the list, select Other Mail. Do not select Yahoo from the list.
13. In the dialogue box, it should already populate the email field and have a password field
14. Paste in the app password that was generated in steps 7 and 8. IMPORTANT: Do not use your actual email password
15. It will time out because it is trying to use the old Comcast email servers this is fine. The Incoming and Outgoing mail server fields are now editable.
16. Put in the following.
- Incoming Mail Server: map.mail.yahoo.com
- Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
17. Click Sign In, and it will connect.
Additional Info: If needed, here are the correct server settings from Yahoo, but everything should work at this point.
Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server
- Server - imap.mail.yahoo.com
- Port - 993
- Requires SSL - Yes
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server
- Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- Port - 465 or 587
- Requires SSL - Yes
- Requires authentication - Yes
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 26.0
