Can't sign in to Yahoo account on Thunderbird
Hi,
I have a Yahoo mail account. I'm trying to sign in to this account on Thunderbird, but I can't. I'm getting the error "Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password." The username and password are correct, as I have just signed in on a browser. But on Thunderbird it's not letting me sign in.
Originally the auto-generated settings gave me the inbound.att.net and outbound.att.net servers. Those weren't working, so I tried using the POP settings here https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3217.html and that didn't work, so I tried using IMAP settings here https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4075.html . Those didn't work either. I'm stuck.
I have not enabled 2-step verification on this account. I don't know if anything has changed with Yahoo mail, I hardly Yahoo mail anymore and mostly want access to this account so I can access old emails that I might need to access.
Thanks for any help
Chosen solution
St it up with the server names for yahoo, not ATT and change the authentication method to oAuth. Not really kosher, but the easiest way. ATT DNS poisoning that they use for the yahoo/ATT switcharoo should take care of the rest.
Pick the yahoo server names out of this link https://autoconfig.thunderbird.net/v1.1/yahoo.com
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St it up with the server names for yahoo, not ATT and change the authentication method to oAuth. Not really kosher, but the easiest way. ATT DNS poisoning that they use for the yahoo/ATT switcharoo should take care of the rest.
Pick the yahoo server names out of this link https://autoconfig.thunderbird.net/v1.1/yahoo.com
Matt said
St it up with the server names for yahoo, not ATT and change the authentication method to oAuth. Not really kosher, but the easiest way. ATT DNS poisoning that they use for the yahoo/ATT switcharoo should take care of the rest. Pick the yahoo server names out of this link https://autoconfig.thunderbird.net/v1.1/yahoo.com
Awesome thank you so much, that fixed it and my emails for this account are syncing as I type! It took a second to figure out, as I realized that in order for OAuth2 to show up as an option for the Authentication method, I had to type in the server names, port, SSL, etc. and then click the "Re-test" option. After clicking "Re-test", OAuth2 showed up as an option for Authentication method whereas it didn't before. Thanks again.
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