Apple Mail connects to the server constantly to see if you have new mail. This can be caused by security issue, incorrect password or incorrect server settings. Yahoo mail sometimes could not verify the user name and password from a mail client and gives error message ” Unable to verify account name or password “.
Yahoo email services are widely used, not only by the free Yahoo account users but also by the many other users of different partner internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, BT (British Telecom), Sky Broadband, Frontier, Rogers, Spark, or MTS, Rocket Mail and Ymail, because they have outsourced their webmail services to Yahoo. Yahoo mail also provides premium Ad free mail ( Yahoo Mail Plus ) services at $49.99/ year which was earlier available at a cost of $19.99 / year. When you sign up you get 1 TB (1000 GB) of free storage probably the biggest free data storage provider among free email services. It supports both POP and IMAP and also provides SMS messaging. Yahoo mail is one of the most popular web-based free email services.