Yahoo Mail App

My Droid has slow responses to incoming mail through the installed email program on my phone, so I DL'd the Yahoo Email App. But when I go to set it up it tells me this:

"Add account failed.- Your account is locked. Please sign in to yahoo via a web browser to unlock your account."

Anyone else experience this and have a solution? I cannot find anything in my Yahoo account to unlock and their Help section is a joke.

If this has already been addressed, i apologize. The search did not find anything for me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

 

Well thank you all for the help. I truly appreciate it.

I tried many things, went through a browser, email apps, changing the incoming/outgoing server, turning off wifi and no go. Atleast until the original email program worked right on it's once a day(if lucky) occasion. Then I could go in change the settings info I found as a solution and also got in by a browser. But once it goes back to not working then these ways will give errors again.

I guess after having the same yahoo account since the WEB came online I may have to ditch it for Google mail, which actually works when I need it to. What is funny is I have 2 yahoo accounts, one works pretty regularly but is for junk. The one I want to work rarely does. Makes no sense. I also read somewhere that Yahoo basically doesnt like Google and it's ways, so this is why we are having so many problems.

 

Thanks Olskool. When I tried using the browser to access Yahoo email last night, I got sign in errors. When it did finally work this morning, the regular email program also worked. Maybe my phone is messed up? I don't know what is up, this phone used to update my emails(all accounts) all the time now it's only working maybe once a day if that.

 

Verizon is my SP. I have had my Droid for nearly a year now and the occasional problem arises but I find a fix for it quickly. I haven't had any trouble with my Yahoo email access until the last couple of months though and I rarely DL apps.

Anyway, thanks for the tips. So far today things are working properly. <crosses fingers> I do reboot my phone a lot, find it helps especially when a program stalls. I also did the *228, option #2.