BT Yahoo e-mail Account and MacBook Pro

Hi All
This is my very first post, so please be patient if this topic has: 
1) Already been covered.  The ones I have found seem a bit too technical for me (embarrassing!)
2) Shows I'm a bit of a novice
For a number of months now I have been happily plodding along with accessing both my AOL and BT Yahoo emails usingmy MacBook Pro.  That was until last week when I noticed I was being prompted for a password for my BT Yahoo emailaddress.  Upon entering my password, which I know to be correct, it came up with another message stating that it wasn'trecognised.  I then uninstalled then reinstalled the BT Yahoo email account and am continuously getting the same issue.  Iwill walk through when adding an account in the hope that someone may be able to thankfully help!  Again, please excusemy novice walkthru.  I am not the greatest expert when it comes to issues like this!
RE-INSTALLING BT YAHOO ACCOUNT
On MacBook, go to Mail, Preferences and click on the + to add a new email account.
Following fields are required: Full name, e-mail Address and Password.  These are already detailed, apart from thepassword which is entered.
The following message is then displayed: Mail cannot send your password securely to the server.  You cancontinue without a secured password, which could put your password at risk. Alternatively, you canmanually set up your account.Do you want to continue without a secured password?
If I click Continue the following message is displayed: Logging in to the Yahoo! POP server “mail.btinternet.com”failed. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then click Continue. If theinformation isn’t correct, you cannot receive messages.
If I proceed and click Continue again, the Incoming Mail Server screen appears with the following completed fieldscompleted as follows:
Account Type: POP
Description: btinternet.com
Incoming Mail Server: mail.btinternet.com
User Name: ******@btinternet.com
Password: *********
6.  Upon clicking Continue again, the Incoming Mail Security screen appears, with:
An unticked option labelled: Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
A dropdown menu which is automatically set to: Password.  Additional options from this dropdown are External(TLS Client Certificate), Kerberos Version 5 (GSSAPI), NTLM, MD5 Challenge-Response and AuthenticatedPOP (APOP)
7.  When I continue with the SSL option ticked and Authentication defaulting to Password the Outgoing Mail          Server screen appears with the following options:
Description: btinternet.com
Outgoing Mail Server: mail.btinternet.com (other drop down options is: smtp.mail.yahoo.com relating to thisemail account)
Ticked option of Use Only This Server
Ticked option of Use Authentication
User Name: ******@btinternet.com
Password: *********
8.  When I Continue, the Outgoing Mail Security screen appears, with the Secure Sockets option ticked and the              Authentication dropdown displayed with Password.
9.  I click Continue again and a summary of the above appears.  I click Continue, then it looks as if my email account is          being set up.  However, the following message then appears:  Enter password for Account "btinternet.com".  
     The Yahoo! POP server “mail.btinternet.com” rejected the password for user “******@btinternet.com”
     Enter your password again or cancel.
The above isn't the only issue though.  Unfortunately I seem to be missing all of my subfolders under this emailaddress.  Prior to the problem I encountered above, all of my sub email folders were in line with BT Yahoo and theadditional devices I use to retrieve/check my email.
PLEEEEEEEEEAAAAASE could someone help me?  A very basic walkthru would be much appreciated!  Not only is my concernthat I cannot get my BT Yahoo email on my MacBook, but also my sub-folders.
Many thanks in advance, and apologies for the long winded email!
Joe

I have the settings here for Thunderbird, which also has a MAC version. You should be able to copy the settings from this.
Thunderbird setup for BT Yahoo e-mail
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

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