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No longer able to send email

Thunderbird Send and receive email
Toad-Hall replied 6 months ago
FredJK27
FredJK27

After recent update I can no longer send email on any of my accounts. A message popped up when I opened Thunderbird after the update stating I would need to change some settings, but message disappeared before I could read it all and could make changes. I need to know what settings I need to change to restore outgoing mail ability. my Email accounts are Gmail and Yahoo.

After recent update I can no longer send email on any of my accounts. A message popped up when I opened Thunderbird after the update stating I would need to change some settings, but message disappeared before I could read it all and could make changes. I need to know what settings I need to change to restore outgoing mail ability. my Email accounts are Gmail and Yahoo.

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Toad-Hall
Toad-Hall
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The message may have been all about the changes occuring with Yahoo. So lets deal with Yahoo first. Recent updated info

I would suggest you completely remove any stored passwords for the 'Yahoo' accounts first so there will be no confusion.

  • Settings > Privacy & Security
  • Scroll down to Passwords
  • Click on 'Saved Passwords'
  • Click on 'show Passwords'
  • then Remove any line that mentions the 'Username' = Yahoo email account. You mau only have one that begins with 'oauth://...' but if you see others that start with imap://..or smtp:// for the same yahoo account then make sure they are all removed.
  • Click on 'Close'
  • Now Exit Thunderbird, wait a few moments for background processes to compete and the restart Thunderbird.

You should get a prompt from Yahoo to enter password

IF you have more than one Yahoo account or additional accounts that uses the yahoo server such as AOL. Eg: you have one yahoo and one aol OR two or more yahoo accounts then you need to alter the following preference first.

  • Settings > General
  • Scroll to bottom and click on 'Config Editor'
  • It opens in a new tab
  • In search type: oauth.use
  • look for : mailnews.oauth.usePrivateBrowse
  • toggle from 'false' to 'TRUE'
  • Exit Thunderbird, wait a few moments for background processes to compete and the restart Thunderbird.