Why Can't My iMac Retrieve E-Mail from Yahoo?

I am having persistent difficulties consistently connecting to Yahoo! in order to send and retrieve e-mail.  Nothing has been changed except the password, which I've updated.  I can retrieve e-mail from my Yahoo account via Safari, but for some reason my iMac's mail application cannot.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Fred

Have opened Mail, under Mail select Preferences, select the Yahoo account and delete the password and the renter it?  Some times it is necessary to delete the account then reestablish the account info to clear problems.

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