How do I change password for Yahoo.com on Thunderbird
How do I change my Yahoo.com password on Thunderbird to get messages?
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To change the password is to go to Yahoo and change the password or not and update the password. Go back to Thunderbird and update that password there in Thunderbird s account settings. Yahoo uses the Oauth2 security protocol you can therefore use the app password generator for Thunderbird. So change your Yahoo password on that Yahoo website. Generate an app password for Thunderbird. Update your password in Thunderbird. Verify the changes by restarting Thunderbird.
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Yahoo uses the Oauth2 security protocol you can therefore use the app password generator for Thunderbird.
This is nonsense. Yahoo uses the Oauth2 authentication, hence there is no need for an app password. In fact app passwords are potentially less secure and should not be used when OAuth2 authentication is offered by the email provider.
Generate an app password for Thunderbird.
Once again, don't do that.
Go back to Thunderbird and update that password there in Thunderbird s account settings.
Thunderbird will prompt for the password when it's needed. Also, with OAuth2 authentication Thunderbird does not remember the actual account password, but an OAuth authentication token.
Hello Thanx for ur response ... However it did not work ... I updated password in Thunderbird ... TB Did not prompt me for my password. I still Authentication Failure message.
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However it did not work
What exactly didn't work?
I updated password in Thunderbird
Please explain in detail
- what you did,
- what happened, and
- what you expect to happen
I still Authentication Failure message
What is the exact error message?
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