App password for Yahoo Mail
A separate key for one app that you can revoke any time without changing your real password. Mail Housekeeper never asks for your real password.
Takes about two minutes on your phone or computer.
- Open login.yahoo.com/account/security and sign in. This is the Account Security page.Screenshot: the Yahoo Account Security page
- Under External connections tap Create app password. On older screens the section is called Other ways to sign in and the button says Generate app password.Screenshot: the Create app password button
- Name it Mail Housekeeper and tap Generate.
- Copy the 16-character password before tapping Done. Yahoo shows it once.Screenshot: the generated password
- Paste it into Mail Housekeeper with your Yahoo address and tap Test and connect.
Good to know
- The app password keeps working even if you change your main Yahoo password.
- To revoke it, go back to the same page and delete it. Our access ends that instant.
- Yahoo may ask you to verify your identity first. Have your phone handy.
Why an app password?
It is a separate key for one app that you can revoke any time without changing your real password. We never ask for your real password.
Your app password is stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM) and used only to read mail headers and move mail between folders inside your own mailbox: into Housekeeper hold when you clear a company, and on Yahoo and AOL into Housekeeper keep while a deep clean reaches older mail (that one is always brought back). Delete the app password at your provider and our access ends that instant.