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Sunday 20 March 2016

Accessing Yahoo Mail through Gmail with two factor authentication

Yahoo mail was previously set up in my Gmail account using the Accounts and Import part of Settings:


However, enabling two factor authentication on Yahoo (Settings > Account Security) stops this working.

The solution is - still within Yahoo Account Security - to add an App Specific Password 


Go to Manage app passwords:


I have added an option of Gmail. This produces a long password which is then used in Gmail *instead* of the Yahoo password - this acts as two factor authentication.