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CAN'T SEND & RECEIVE Email

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The major cause is the NOTORIOUS ISSUE caused by pop.mail.yahoo.com described previously as follows: '...the Sign-in attempt prevented email when you try to connect your Yahoo Mail with THUNDERBIRD, Yahoo has BLOCKED Thunderbird from connecting because it's a "less secure" non-Yahoo app...!!! PLEASE (!) - CAN WE FINALLY FIX PERMANENTLY THIS NIGHTMARE and a NON-SENSE caused by YAHOO's 'racist attitude' so that THUNDERBIRD is NOT BLOCKED by this pop.mail.yahoo.com issue, please ?!? What is needed to PREVENT the pop.mail.yahoo.com SERVER BLOCKING the ACCESS to THUNDERBIRD and allowing the use of THUNDERBIRD EMAIL FUNCTION IN SENDING & RECEIVING Email: this is 'SOMETIMES' possible very quickly & easy to eliminate by SELECTING an Option displayed ONLY SOMETIMES (!) by YAHOO which 'ALLOWS Yahoo SERVER to be connected by "less secure" non-Yahoo applications like THUNDERBIRD' !!! Does anyone KNOW how to PERMANENTLY ELIMINATE this YAHOO-restriction - probably best from inside (within) the THUNDERBIRD (!) ...?!? In advance - MANY THANKS to ANYONE who could advise HOW TO HAVE THIS ISSUE FINALLY resolved !!! Tony H.

The major cause is the NOTORIOUS ISSUE caused by '''pop.mail.yahoo.com''' described previously as follows: '...the Sign-in attempt prevented email when you try to connect your Yahoo Mail with THUNDERBIRD, Yahoo has BLOCKED '''Thunderbird from connecting because it's a "less secure" non-Yahoo app'''...!!! PLEASE (!) - CAN WE FINALLY FIX PERMANENTLY THIS NIGHTMARE and a NON-SENSE caused by YAHOO's 'racist attitude' so that THUNDERBIRD is NOT BLOCKED by this pop.mail.yahoo.com issue, please ?!? What is needed to PREVENT the pop.mail.yahoo.com SERVER BLOCKING the ACCESS to THUNDERBIRD and allowing the use of THUNDERBIRD EMAIL FUNCTION IN SENDING & RECEIVING Email: this is 'SOMETIMES' possible very quickly & easy to eliminate by SELECTING an Option displayed ''ONLY SOMETIMES (!) by YAHOO'' which 'ALLOWS Yahoo SERVER to be connected by "less secure" non-Yahoo applications like THUNDERBIRD' !!! Does anyone KNOW how to PERMANENTLY ELIMINATE this YAHOO-restriction - '''probably best from inside (within) the THUNDERBIRD (!) ''' ...?!? In advance - MANY THANKS to ANYONE who could advise HOW TO HAVE THIS ISSUE FINALLY resolved !!! ''Tony H.''

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Hi christ1: MANY THANKS for your prompt reply to my 'appeal for help' with this annoying issue from Yahoo's pop.mail.yahoo.com ...! However, I had a little problem to meet EXACTLY your request of sending the 'Troubleshooting Information': it contains 10,073 characters and your Website allows ONLY max 10,000 characters so - I had to cut off some characters at the end of my message ...please advise me if that is OK and if you have received it complete and otherwise in good order ...!

Furthermore, I have made hundreds of notes describing this problem, and I could also make some images of the error screen/s for your better info re this issue - just let me know WHAT OTHER INFO you'd need and enclose YOUR DETAILED instructions how to correctly prepare and send it to you, please! ...Just some last notes: - we have 2 PC's: HP Laptop (with wireless Internet connection), which is the one with this Thunderbird Emailing problems, and then I have a Gateway DESKTOP-PC (with wired Internet connection) with which I had the same Emaling-issue just ONE MONTH AGO ...this is really crazy! With the DESKTOP-PC I was lucky that the Yahoo 'miraculously' displayed an Option to 'accept a less secured device' (CAN'T remember the exact wording!) to allow me to get connected with my DEFAULT Email-Program THUNDERBIRD - and this 'Option' ELIMINATED this problem INSTANTLY ...really crazy, therefore this issue MUST BE FIXED ASAP so that many other very satisfied Thunderbird users do NOT suffer as we had in the past ... - we had been FRONTIER's customers for over 10 years (after the Fiber Optic installation) and NEVER had Emailing Internet problems (!), and that's why we'd like to keep our original FRONTIER Email addresses: [email protected] (this LAPTOP), and [email protected] for my DESKTOP. Of course - that's why I'm using this LAPTOP until we, hopefully successfully RESOLVE this EXTREMELY ANNOYING issue ...!

I'm looking forward to your further advice and for your detailed instructions. MANY THANKS ...Tony H.

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You have updated your incoming accounts to use oauth. Once you have done that you should not see the issue again. So what exactly is the error message you are currently getting? Have you disabled cookies in Thunderbird? They are essential for oauth to work.

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Hi Matt: MANY THANKS for trying to help me in eliminating this TERRIBLE restriction by YAHOO SERVER (pop.mail.yahoo.com) to refuse accepting connection by THUNDERBIRD stating that I quote: 'THUNDERBIRD is a "less secure" non-Yahoo app' ...!!! In Thunderbird BELOW Ver 68.5 you could apparently enable an Option to allow apps that use less secure sign-in in Yahoo Account ...!, however, my PC (LAPTOP) has TB Ver 78.1 and there is NOT this Option! And to answer your questions: - I'm using constantly the oauth setting & with cookies in TB turned on ALL the TIME - so obviously, this setting does NOT WORK as you suggest for some strange reason, eh ?!? - ERROR MESSAGES I'm getting: 1) while trying to start Thunderbird, instead of its log-in overlay the YAHOO log-in screen is displayed (!) in spite of that I have THUNDERBIRD set up ALWAYS as the DEFAULT for Emailing and YAHOO displays in the Taskbar '[email protected]: Connected to pop.mail.yahoo.com' 2) after about 1/2 min or longer - Yahoo displays the following 'Connection to server pop.mail.yahoo.com time out'. SOMETIMES Yahoo 'miraculously' (unexpectedly) displays question 'Do you allow any "less-secure" non-Yahoo app to connect to Server?' (do NOT remember the exact wording!) BUT the MOST IMPORTANT is that after I had AGREED to ALLOW it - this Yahoo log-in over-lay disappears and THUNDERBIRD then opens up and WORKS NORMALLY ...this is ABSOLUTELY CRAZY (!), and this issue/bug/annoying restriction should therefore be FIXED ASAP - either from THUNDERBIRD or YAHOO side so that this HORRIBLE nightmare would not seriously interfere with usage of THUNDERBIRD by many satisfied users. Any further suggestions/advice would be greatly appreciated ...! THANKS... Tony H.

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Try to start Windows 7 in safe mode with networking enabled.

Does the problem go away?

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Hi christ1: Thanks for your reply! I'll try what you have suggested and let you know BUT this issue is really EXTREMELY STRANGE: wouldn't be possible that any ADVANCED-level Programmer could fix this 'nightmare' because this restriction of DISALLOWING by a SERVER to get connected by THUNDERBIRD should NOT be too difficult for Mozilla to eliminate because TB had in Version BELOW 68.5 the following Setting-Option: ... In Thunderbird BELOW Ver 68.5 you could enable an Option to allow apps that use less secure sign-in in Yahoo Account so - why this YAHOO-interference cold NOT be controlled ALSO in TB 78 and above Versions ...?!? Tony H.