Yahoo password problem

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About 10 days ago reset the Yahoo password for my mother-in-law. I am in US and she is abroad. I set up a new MBA (10.8.4), I set up OS X Mail app to get her email from Gmail and Yahoo. sent the MBA to Romania a week ago.

That worked fine for about 4-5 days, then her Mail complained the Yahoo didn't work and asked for a password.

i used log me in, logged in and typed in the correct password, no go This was from her MBA in Romania.

From my laptop in US, I logged in to her yahoo account, it asked me to change the password because some "suspicious activity". I changed the password.

I went back to log me in, to her laptop, typed in the new password, still does not work.

The irony is that Yahoo cannot prevent all those hackers in Easter Europe and Asia from hacking and sending spam via yahoo servers, but they manage to make it impossible for honest people to check their mail.

I tried to convince her to give up on yahoo long ago but everyone sends her email there and it is a lost cause.

[Robert M]

Space,

I faced a similar problem with a friend but not with a yahoo email address. He has an email address affiliated with the local ISP. The problem is the local ISP is horrible and he wants to switch to a new ISP But, he refuses to give up his email address for the same reason you listed in your post. Everyone knows it and uses it.

I had to use the "parent taking away a privilege" method to finally get him to switch. In this case, I told him that I would absolutely refuse to troubleshoot and repair computer issues for him until he switches to a personal domain and dedicated email provider. Or, at the least, switches from email provided by his ISP to email via a dedicated provider.

It took a few calls from him and refusals to help before he finally relented and allowed me to walk him through getting a domain and an account with Fastmail. The switch is an easy process. It just takes a bit of time and patience, i.e. several emails to everyone about the change, an email on the date of the change, reminding stragglers to get with the program. After a while only a handful of people used the old address and that was only because they were individuals who rarely emailed him and/or checked their own email.

The process of making the change from one email address to the other is inconvenient at first but definitely well worth it in the long run. I would keep after your mother-in-law about it until she finally relents.

Robert

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LOL maybe I like the take away privilege approach

[Ken Sp.]

Try forwarding the Yahoo to gmail.