Yahoo Mail now requires a seperate password generated by their site that is different from your Yahoo Mail website login in order to pop email with Thunderbird.
A day or two ago Thunderbird lost the ability to pop email from Yahoo Mail. After exchanging emails over a period of two days with Yahoo, I am told that Yahoo now requires you to generate a password on their site to use with "older third party email apps." You have to choose "other" as your "email app" because they don't even list Thunderbird as an option.
I've uploaded an image of their instructions from their email that allowed me to get Thunderbird to work again.
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dominien said
I don't see an option for OAuth2 under authentication
The option is missing from the account setup window (bug), but it's available in Account Settings, Server Settings. To select OAuth in the setup, click Advanced config. to open Account Settings.
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An app password as described is necessary if the authentication on the account is 'normal password'. Since TB 68.5, OAuth2 authentication is available for Yahoo, gmail and a few others, for POP accounts (and IMAP). In that case, the regular account password is entered in an OAuth browser window, and a long (40+) string of characters is stored as an oauth:// token in the Saved Passwords in TB Options. If you switch from 'normal password' to OAuth2, remove the existing entries in Tools/Options/Security/Passwords/Saved Passwords, then restart TB and enter the account password when prompted.
I don't see an option for OAuth2 under authentication
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dominien said
I don't see an option for OAuth2 under authentication
The option is missing from the account setup window (bug), but it's available in Account Settings, Server Settings. To select OAuth in the setup, click Advanced config. to open Account Settings.
I found it and selected it, but then got a message saying the server doesn't accept that type of authentication!
What is your version of TB, from Help/About TB? Is the POP server pop.mail.yahoo.com on 995, SSL/TLS security?
I have TB 45.8. The serving address show in the settings is incoming.yahoo.verizon.net Yes to 995,SSL/TLS security I tried changing it yesterday and it didn't seem to make a difference
As stated above you need version 68.xx to have this option.
I checked my home computer and have 68.6 here. I changed the server names to the ones Yahoo gives.
dominien said
I checked my home computer and have 68.6 here. I changed the server names to the ones Yahoo gives.
See this topic for the Verizon/Yahoo setup:
I put in the app password and now all the messages are downloading. Hooray! thanks for your help and for asking the right questions. Now trying to get it to work on my iPad
The problem is fixed on both computers but I still cannot get the mail to download on my ipad. I followed some instructions from Yahoo help but nothing they suggest seems to work. thanbks for any suggestions.
If Yahoo's instructions don't work, you might have to create an app password for the iPad. Another option is to use the Yahoo iOS app.