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Good morning. Being over 60, I am rather stuck in my ways. I like the programs I like and particularly dislike the way I am being forced to drop them in favour of ones being forced on me by the likes of Microsoft. Internet Explorer is an example. I have never had one issue with it and I do not want to go through the process of learning how another browser operates.

My problem today concerns a program called 'Pop-Peeper'. I have been using it for years and it has worked great. I have had to install it numerous times as I refreshed my computer with a Windows re-install or built a new computer. Never had a problem. It is one of them programs that I depend on regularly, every 3 minutes in fact, as it notifies me immediately I have any new messages in any of my e-mail accounts. Most important if I am trying to privately purchase an item online from a seller as if I don't reply swiftly, it may get sold to another buyer. It's so slow having to log into Yahoo every time to see if anything has come in so having a mail notifier is a godsend.

Last week my pc suffered a bad crash. In fact I lost Terrabytes of saved materials. It appears that the boot drive was also affected and would no longer boot. I rebuilt from scratch - needed a good clean anyway. All 4 hdd's, nvme and m.2 ssd are now up and running again. I've re-installed all of my favoured programs including 'Pop-Peeper' but it just won't access my 3 Yahoo.co.uk accounts despite multiple checks to ensure login and password were correct, changing Server Type to IMAP, select SSL which is installed and entering "imap.mail.yahoo.com" as the Incoming Server.

As I say, the program worked perfectly, using the above settings, until the crash last week. I've spent a good few days 'googling' and going over the settings. Nothing is different from previous installs but it still can't access my 3 accounts.
I have also downloaded and tried PopTrayU and EmailTray with similar results. I suppose it's possible that Yahoo have put in some blocker or something but as they don't display an e-mail address, I can't contact them.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
George.