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DickD
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July 17, 2019
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Adobe Lightroom Classic 8.3.1 email setup failure

  • July 17, 2019
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Unable to validate yahoo mail in lightroom email function.  Any advice for an approach to a solution?

Message was edited by: Akash Sharma

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Tony_See
Inspiring
July 18, 2019

Maybe this is probably a similar to the recently reported Google Mail issue on this Forum.

Attached below is some information to solve that which may be able to be transposed to Yahoo:

quote: You can keep the security settings strong but set up an App password for specific programs such as Lightroom. Here's the current link for that page: https://myaccount.google.com/security?hl=en Then enter the Google-generated App password in the setup of your email server in the Lightroom dialog box.

On that Google page is a section called "Signing into Google". In the first block, you should see App Passwords as one of the choices. Click on those words. Perhaps after signing in again, you'll have a page where you can Select App. Choose "Other" and type "Lightroom on my Mac (or whatever)". Then click on Generate. Once you have the app password, that's what you enter in the setup for Gmail in your Lightroom program.

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DickD
DickDAuthor
Participant
July 19, 2019

I have now spent 3 hours trying to find the solution but with no success. Any further suggestions????

Akash Sharma
Legend
July 19, 2019

Please check out the steps mentioned in the last commend to this post that fixed the issue for a couple of users: Re: LR Email problem:Failed to establish connection with the outgoing email server.

Let us know if that helps.

~Akash

Akash Sharma
Legend
July 17, 2019

Hi there,

Sorry that you cannot get the Yahoo mail validated in Lightroom. Let's help make it right.

  • Which version of Lightroom are you using?
  • What is the exact error message you're getting?

I'd recommend that you take a look at the steps mentioned in this article Email account validation failed in Adobe Lightroom  and let us know if that helps.

Thanks,

Akash

DickD
DickDAuthor
Participant
July 17, 2019

Akash

Thanks for responding.

The Adobe Lightroom Classic version is 8.3.1 which I believe is the most current version.

The message received when validating email address is

FAILED TO SEND EMAIL

"Failed to establish connection with outgoing email. Please make sure you have entered the email account and password correctly."

By the way, I am using a MacBook Pro.

Thanks

Dick

July 17, 2019

Which steps are following to validate yahoo mail in light room email function. have you check that your light room is updated or not?

DickD
DickDAuthor
Participant
July 18, 2019

Lightroom is version 8.3.1. I have confirmed the yahoo id and password with yahoo.