Yahoo Broke my iMac!

For some reason I cannot connect to Yahoo to retrieve my email. I can get to Yahoo, but when I click on Mail it times out, this has been happening for a few weeks now.
I also have POP access enable so I use Mac Mail to send/recieve email from this account, but Mail times out too.
I first thought it was an issue with Safari, so I tried Firefox and Shiira but same result.
So I then tried using my MacBook and it working flawlessly.
So it's something unique to my iMac, but I cannot think of what it would be.
Any ideas?

Do you have the Yahoo Premium Mail service that lets you Send and Receive via POP access? If not, that would explain the problem; you can only send email through Mail in that case.
If you do have Yahoo Premium mail, check your account settings for Yahoo in Mail; your Incoming Mail Server sould be pop.mail.yahoo.com, your Outgoing Mail Server is whatever your ISP says. Click on the Advanced tab in Mail Preferences and be sure that Enable this account, Include when automatically checking for new mail, and Remove copy from server after retrieving a message are checked, and that you're connecting on Port 110 using Pasword authentication.
If that doesn't work, I would try contacting Yahoo support.
Mulder

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