Using Windows Live Mail to access Yahoo Mail

I received an email from Yahoo on 25 August titled Important security notice about your Yahoo account. This informed me that I had to take some action before 20 October 2020 to continue to use a third party application to access my Yahoo email account. As I use Windows Live Mail on Windows 10 on my laptop I chose to use the third option from the email to generate a one-time unique password. I logged into my Yahoo email account and generated the password and used it as requested. However, I received another identical email on 14 September.

I'm currently able to access my Yahoo email from my laptop using Windows Live Mail, but the question is will I still be able to continue to access my Yahoo email using Windows Live Mail from my laptop after 20 October? If so, do I need to generate another one-time password or what further action do I need to take?

I've emailed and telephoned Yahoo but they don't respond and I really need to resolve this

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EliseM_456

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Hi, I'm Elise, an independent advisor and I'd be happy to help with your issue.

You will have a lot of issues trying to access your mail using Windows Live Mail, as this has been out of support for sometime now.

I would recommend switch to the Windows 10 Mail app, instructions for settings this up are available here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/set-...

Please let me know if you need any further assistance.

Kind Regards,
Elise

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StevieC52

HI Elise, thank you for your quick reply.

I had thought about using Windows 10 mail but will I be able to import my contacts and old emails from Windows Live Mail? If so, how do I do this?

Will it not be possible to continue to use Windows Live mail to access Yahoo mail?

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Steve

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EliseM_456

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You contacts may already be sync with your email provider, in which case they would just add automatically.

If not then you can follow these steps:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

It may be possible for the short term to continue using live mail, but could stop working completely at any point.

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