Email problem.
Old Lenovo Desktop, Window 8.0 (I know, I know, but it's my wife's and all she uses it for is email and utube recipes, and she's used to it). I use it for … (read more)
Email problem.
Old Lenovo Desktop, Window 8.0 (I know, I know, but it's my wife's and all she uses it for is email and utube recipes, and she's used to it). I use it for some banking, mainly because the printer is on it.
Tbird 115.18.0 (32 bit) -says it's up to date
AVG antivirus free
Email through yahoo.
It worked fine until, going by the last date it linked email, 10/30/25 at 06:45AM MST
When I tried to download new messages Sunday 11/2, it failed.
It pops up a new window "Enter credentials for bababarb@yahoo.com on imap.mail.yahoo.com"
In the address window is "https://login.yahoo.com/?src=thunderbird&client_id=(about a zillion characters)
Then, in the message window is "Edge: Too many requests"
So, I did the troubleshooting as in Help article. I logged in on the webmail, signed in with the password, and was able to see the messages, many from after the 30th (she gets a ton of sorta spam).
Looking under Account setting> server settings, I find that the security is set to SSL/TLS and Authentication is set to OAuth2. Incidentally, these were set automatically when I set this to a yahoo.com address.
So, I try setting the Authentication to Password and request mail. I get a popup asking for the password. I enter it (the same password I used on webmail) and it replies "Login to server imap.mail.yahoo.com with username bababarb@yahoo.com failed."
Following suggestions on the help article, I got to Settings, and check "saved passwords". Then, again following the suggestions, I remove the yahoo password entry. According to the article, the next login attempt should ask for a password. It does not. I just get the "too many requests" popup. What the hell, I go back and remove the SMTP password, too. Same result.
Anybody else having this issue? Any suggestions?