Email Messenger: Yahoo settings

Owned by Wolfgang Granzer
Mar 28, 2022

NETx Server settings for messenger plugin:

  • From: <your Yahoo email address>
  • Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
  • Port: 587
  • UseAuthentication: T
  • Username: <your Yahoo email address>
  • Password: <app password>
    • This is NOT your Yahoo password. See details below
  • UseSsl: T


In order to use a Yahoo account to send notifications from NETx Servers, you need an app password. App passwords are only available if 2-Step authentication is activated for your account. Thus, ensure that you have activated 2-Step authentication. If not yet, please activate it in your account settings.

Afterwards, you have to generate an App Password for your server:

  1. In Browser log into your  account 
  2. Navigate to https://login.yahoo.com/myaccount/security/
  3. Scroll to "Other ways to sign in"
  4. Press "Generate and manage app passwords"
  5. Give your password a name
  6. Click "Generate password"
  7. It will give you 16 chars token.
  8. User this the 16 chars token as a password in the Password field in Email definitions


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