Yahoo e-mail password rejected

I've had my yahoo e-mail account set up and working with my BIS account for years. Today I received an e-mail "action required: update password". I haven't changed my Yahoo password. Then when I try to update the password on the BIS account, it won't accept it- says it's invalid. I can still sign in to my Yahoo account on the web, so I know the password is still good! Can anyone help me?

I have the same problem, or at least got the same message. I have been using the service successfully since december last with an old bberry 7290 and btinternet mail (provided by yahoo). I can access my email account fine from a web browser (but see below). I got the message at 20.32 pm yesterday (which interestingly may be about the same time as the previous correspondent if he / she in on EST which is 5 hours behind the UK). When I access the email set up command via the url on the yahoo site (blackberry.com/yahoo/mail) it first off names my account but then says it is invalid. If I try to delete, edit or validate it, or even add it again it says "ERROR the site cannot be accessed in this manner. Please use the URL or link provided by your service provider" - which I thought I was). A hint may be that I renewed my broadband service with BT just before I got this message. While trying to fix it today and re logging in to my email account it thanked me for renewing my service so I am wondering if somehow it cancelled and renewed something and screwed it up)
any help gratefully received.

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