Import from Yahoo Mail

To copy your mail from Yahoo Mail, you make an app password in your Yahoo account and give it to the import. Yahoo Mail isn't changed: we only read it.

Make an app passwordCopy Anchor Link

1. Sign in to Yahoo and open your account settings (Account info), then Account security.
2. Choose Generate app password (it may be called Manage app passwords).
3. Type a name you'll recognise, like "AnhourMail import", and generate it.
4. Yahoo shows the password once. Copy it: you'll paste it into the import.

Yahoo changes its menus from time to time, so the names above may differ a little. Searching Yahoo's help for "app password" finds the current steps.

Start the importCopy Anchor Link

1. In the console, open Import mail and choose New import.
2. Under Provider, choose Yahoo Mail. The server settings are filled in for you:

3. Type your full Yahoo Mail address as the User name, paste the App password, and choose Start import.

Your folders, Sent, Drafts and Archive arrive in the matching places here. The rest is the same for every provider: see Move your mail here.

If Yahoo refuses the sign-inCopy Anchor Link

The import says Needs you: the old provider refused the sign-in. Check that you used the app password, not your usual Yahoo password, and your full Yahoo Mail address as the user name. Then make a new app password and choose Resume with it.

New mail while you switchCopy Anchor Link

Not every Yahoo Mail plan can forward mail to another address. If yours can't, turn on Keep copying new mail until I stop it when you start the import: new mail at Yahoo keeps being copied here until you stop it. See Switch a domain without losing mail.

When you're done, delete the app password in Yahoo's account security settings.