Messages won't keep my Yahoo account connected

I am experiencing a new issue with Messages keeping my Yahoo Messenger account logged in. It's worked properly for years, but over the last few days the Yahoo account disconnects after momentarily connecting. I deleted the Yahoo account from Internet Accounts and reinstalled it with the same outcome. iMessages, AIM accounts all work fine. It's just Yahoo.
Using the stand alone Yahoo Messenger application works fine. The account connects and stays connected, unless OS X Messages makes a connection attempt, briefly succeeds and forces the Yahoo app to disconnect. The Yahoo app stays connected if I disable connection attempts from Messages.
Any suggestions would be welcome
Thanks in advance,
Jeff

Hi,
My Login to Yahoo varies in the Error Messages.
And
It seems the server is not where it was.
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INITIATING CONNECTION May 10 07:42:57.111 -- host:smtp.mail.yahoo.com -- port:465 -- socket:0x0 -- thread:0x7fd4122dbe60
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CONNECTED May 10 07:42:57.241 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com -- port:465 -- socket:0x7fd412286df0 -- thread:0x7fd4122918c0
CONNECTED May 10 07:42:57.243 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:smtp.mail.yahoo.com -- port:465 -- socket:0x7fd41382fb70 -- thread:0x7fd4122dbe60
CONNECTED May 10 07:42:57.258 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:p04-imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0x7fd4138283a0 -- thread:0x7fd41380c770
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WROTE May 10 07:42:57.296 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fd412581e70 -- thread:0x7fd411b25c80
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WROTE May 10 07:42:58.612 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com -- port:465 -- socket:0x7fd412286df0 -- thread:0x7fd4122918c0
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WROTE May 10 07:42:59.068 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fd412581e70 -- thread:0x7fd411b25c80
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