When I try to set up a yahoo (via imap) email account I get a bad name for username/password message (they are correct). Any ideas?

Access to my yahoo email account has always been a little uneven, but recently it has flat refused to work. I received the message "failed to connect to the server- imap.mail.yahoo.com . What I've tried so far:

(1) the user name appeared as [email protected] tried to change it to just my username without result.

(2) I deleted my account in Thunderbird and tried to recreate.

         a) the first time I used the auto configuration option, but it didn't work
         b) the second time I used the manual configuration and changed my username from [email protected] to just username

In both cases, I got the error message "Setup was unable to be verified is the name of user or wrong password? I use 1Password to store all my passwords, so I'm cut and paste right into the dialog box so I know it's good (I also tried to type in there just in case cut and paste somehow corrupted it).

(3) just for the heck of it, I went into my router and disabled the firewall here, but nothing helps.

(4) when I ping imap.mail.yahoo.com of the command line there is no package of problems / deleted.

I'm on Windows 10 (automatic update so it should be the current version of the patch) and I installed Thunderbird at 45.1.0. I searched these forums and google the problem (which is where I learned about the issue of [email protected] vs. username). Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

This error message can be generated if the settings are different from those given here, and those who do not work, use the full address for the user name, such as recommended by Yahoo.

Another reason could be if you two-step verification in place.

In addition, where it is a factor, disable all antivirus programs while you set up the account and then disable the e-mail scanning or create an exception for the TB profile folder.

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