I have a paid Yahoo Small Business (not Yahoo Plus) email account that I want to add to Outlook.com as a send-and-receive account.  I originally configured this months ago and it worked fine for several months, until late July when it randomly stopped working.  Following troubleshooting steps seen in some answers on this community forum, I removed the non-working account and am now trying to re-add it.

I get the following error message when attempting to add the account:
We couldn't sign in to your POP3 server. Please make sure your username and password are correct.

Please note the following.
1) This is a paid Yahoo Small Business account, not a free account.
2) This is a Yahoo Small Business account, not a Yahoo Plus account.
3) The Yahoo Small Business POP server is pop.bizmail.yahoo.com (SSL/995) and the SMTP server is smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com (SSL/465).
4) The username and password I entered are correct.
5) Accessing this Yahoo Small Business account through the desktop Microsoft Outlook email client works fine.
6) Accessing this Yahoo Small Business account through the Yahoo mail website works fine.

I see that many others have had the same issue and a few seem to have gotten it resolved by posting here. Please fix your bug, guys, or, in the alternative, at least fix my account. =^)

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