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Yahoo! sign-in changes from October 20 2020

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Yahoo! Mail is requiring TB users to go through a procedure to continue using Yahoo! mail with its new security procedures (I think they want to make me use Yahoo! Mail direst - nuts!). I followed their procedure to 'Access email vis Thunderbird', which involves removing the account, then adding the account in order to 'automatically activate the secure sign-in method for your account.' Despite ensuring that the 'delete data' checkbox was unchecked, Yahoo! launched Thunderbird only showing the plain Inbox, without any of the sub-folders that form part of my Inbox that I use to manage and record history for various tasks/accounts. Quelle domage!! Of course, I had a back-up, so I copied the new TB profiles to a safe place (just in case), deleted it from AppData/Roaming and then copied and pasted the back-up. Result! I had my old history back. Two questions: 1) In copying back my back-up file, would I have lost the new secure sign-in data for Yahoo! 2) In copying the new data to a safe place it seemed as though it might have been large enough to still have the data 'hidden', i.e. the Inbox sub-folders were still there but not visible or accessible.

Any advice welcomed, I have the feeling that things will go wrong on October 20th.

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Yahoo! Mail is requiring TB users to go through a procedure to continue using Yahoo! mail with its new security procedures (I think they want to make me use Yahoo! Mail direst - nuts!). I followed their procedure to 'Access email vis Thunderbird', which involves removing the account, then adding the account in order to 'automatically activate the secure sign-in method for your account.' Despite ensuring that the 'delete data' checkbox was unchecked, Yahoo! launched Thunderbird only showing the plain Inbox, without any of the sub-folders that form part of my Inbox that I use to manage and record history for various tasks/accounts. Quelle domage!! Of course, I had a back-up, so I copied the new TB profiles to a safe place (just in case), deleted it from AppData/Roaming and then copied and pasted the back-up. Result! I had my old history back. Two questions: 1) In copying back my back-up file, would I have lost the new secure sign-in data for Yahoo! 2) In copying the ''new'' data to a safe place it seemed as though it might have been large enough to still have the data 'hidden', i.e. the Inbox sub-folders were still there but not visible or accessible. Any advice welcomed, I have the feeling that things will go wrong on October 20th. Thanks

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yeah... typically poor advice from Yahoo really.

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo

The article has been updated in the last hour. If it does not answer the question please post back as I think this is going to be another yahoo generated mess.

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yeah... typically poor advice from Yahoo really.

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo

The article has been updated in the last hour. If it does not answer the question please post back as I think this is going to be another yahoo generated mess.

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Hi Matt. Thanks for the speedy reply, it's a holiday weekend in the UK and I have only just got round to doing as you suggest. I have performed the adjustments suggested in the support article and now wait to see what happens in October. I found that I did have to think a little as to what the instructions meant, as the presentation from my 78.2.1 (32-bit) version wasn't quite as described in the article, but that was no real problem, just required care. Thanks again for your advice - all strength to your arm.