Mac OS X 10.5 Mail: Unable to set up Yahoo email account in Mail
Summary
To use Mail with your Yahoo account, so that you can use Mail to send and receive messages instead of a web browser, you need Yahoo! Mail Plus.
Products Affected
Mail, Mac OS X 10.5
To configure a Yahoo email account in Mail, you need a Yahoo! Mail Plus subscription, which may require an additional fee.
If you do not have Yahoo! Mail Plus, when you attempt to configure a Yahoo! account in Mail, you may see an alert such as:
"Trying to log into mail server 'plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com' failed. This server may require an additional fee for Yahoo POP access."
Additional Information
See this article for more information about setting up email accounts in Mail in Mac OS X 10.5.
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