Mac Mail with yahoo plus account difficultly with account reconditions and outgoing serving sending problems

I'm not exactly a techy. I have been having real trouble using YAHOO and now YAHOO PLUS with service useing the MAC MAIL application. This problem started a few weeks back in LION OS and I had apple support and the guys at the genuess bar give it shot and they always improved things but the problem persisted. I had apple care as recently as last night. After I got of the phone with the gentlemen I started having problems with the outgoing servier again. We even looked into the keychain for problems. This morning I downloaded OS 10.8 and MAIL is running better but yahoo is still buggy. Often either the password is not reconized or the outgoing mail can not be sent from the yahoo server. If I directly to yahoo.com and use their site I don't have this problem so it must be either a compadablity problem.

It can't be a software conflict, because Mail is only connecting to a mail server for Yahoo!, so there's no software conflict to be had.
Your profile says you're running 10.4.1, and the latest release of Tiger is 10.4.11; is there some reason you haven't updated to that version yet? By doing so, it will also update Mail to correct any bugs or security flaws that could be causing this problem.
Even if that's not the problem, you should try opening Mail while holding down the Shift key. Then Control-click in an empty area of your mailbox list pane and select Get Info from the contextual menu. A window will open and you should use the popup menu to select that Yahoo! Mail account and see if it will connect and tell you how many messages are there, and you should be able to download them from that window.
If that doesn't work, post back with your Yahoo! account settings for the incoming and outgoing mail servers.
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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Menudifferences_inWindows%
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