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How to fix Yahoo imap settings not working in Thunderbird 52

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Most of the Yahoo imap settings not working in Thunderbird. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SYMhD-1jH5JrEz78x8UAypR_oqpft9OV/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CruVTloZa3A8LA5c6phFhsYBa4YgXDSg/view?usp=drivesdk

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Most of the Yahoo imap settings not working in Thunderbird.

You'd need to be a little more specific about your problem.

Not sure what the Google drive links are all about, they require to login to Google. If you want to post screenshots you can do that directly to your forum topic - see 'Add images'.

... not working in Thunderbird 52

Please upgrade to the latest version (currently 60.6.1). https://www.thunderbird.net/

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Can we add images and also short clips.

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You can only post images to this forum.

The settings look OK, except you may have to change the User name to just the part of the address before the @:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Yahoo

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN3217.html?impressions=true

If you have 2-step verification on the account, use an app password instead of the usual account password.

With TB 60, you can see if OAuth2 authentication works instead of 'normal password'. It works with AOL accounts, and AOL uses Yahoo mail infrastructure.

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thunderbird 52 has some useful working addons that are not in thunderbird 60.

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ok dont give it, i think its mozillazine forum.

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Thunderbird automatically configured yahoo imap accounts. but if one creates a second thunderbird profile. how can yahoo accounts be added to the second profile.

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fast.

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Mozillazine is in no way related to Mozilla or this forum, so any assumptions you have made about sharing credentials is bound to be incorrect.

Perhaps SFHowes will assist you with TB52. I will not.

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if one assumes they are then its not their fault because their names are similiar.

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Timeouts can be caused by incorrect server settings, incorrect passwords, especially if 2-factor verification is in place, and antivirus scanning of outgoing mail (disable it if it's on). Outlook.com settings are given here.

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sfhowes said

You can only post images to this forum. The settings look OK, except you may have to change the User name to just the part of the address before the @: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Yahoo https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN3217.html?impressions=true If you have 2-step verification on the account, use an app password instead of the usual account password. With TB 60, you can see if OAuth2 authentication works instead of 'normal password'. It works with AOL accounts, and AOL uses Yahoo mail infrastructure.

other people dont have 2FA enabled and also they dont use app passwords but they still use yahoo in their email clients.

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again not wking.

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hjzxeed said

again not wking.
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sfhowes said

You can only post images to this forum. The settings look OK, except you may have to change the User name to just the part of the address before the @: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Yahoo https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN3217.html?impressions=true If you have 2-step verification on the account, use an app password instead of the usual account password. With TB 60, you can see if OAuth2 authentication works instead of 'normal password'. It works with AOL accounts, and AOL uses Yahoo mail infrastructure.

now again yahoo imap accounts are not adding to thunderbird. testing all possible ports and different kinds of encryption does not add yahho email accounts to thunderbird. yahoo account key and yahoo app passwords also does not work.

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hjzxeed said

sfhowes said
You can only post images to this forum. The settings look OK, except you may have to change the User name to just the part of the address before the @: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Yahoo https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN3217.html?impressions=true If you have 2-step verification on the account, use an app password instead of the usual account password. With TB 60, you can see if OAuth2 authentication works instead of 'normal password'. It works with AOL accounts, and AOL uses Yahoo mail infrastructure.

now again yahoo imap accounts are not adding to thunderbird. testing all possible ports and different kinds of encryption does not add yahho email accounts to thunderbird. yahoo account key and yahoo app passwords also does not work.

Please contact Yahoo and confirm with them the setting they require you to use. Mail settings are not a testing process or a guessing game. It is carefully using the setting specified by the mail provider. However if you can get anything resembling coherent conversation from Yahoo you will be doing exceptionally well. But you choose to use them

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again one yahoo account got added to tb but using the same settings another yahoo account aint integrating into it. Jesus knows better who uses whom.

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no it cant.

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