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  Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2025-10-08 10:20 -0600
    Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-08 18:19 +0100
      Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2025-10-08 12:55 -0600
        Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2025-10-08 13:42 -0600
          Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Mark Bourne <nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com> - 2025-10-08 20:59 +0100
            Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2025-10-08 16:11 -0600
              Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-09 12:41 +0100
                Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-09 13:25 +0100
              Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2025-10-09 11:58 -0600
                Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2025-10-10 11:15 -0600
                  Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2025-10-10 14:40 -0700
                    Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2025-10-10 17:53 -0600
                      Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-11 13:07 +0100
                        Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-12 00:06 +1100
                  Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-14 14:02 +0100
                    Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-14 14:28 +0100
                      Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-14 16:02 +0100
                        Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-14 19:29 +0100
                          Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2025-10-14 13:47 -0600
                            Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-14 21:05 +0100
                Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-12 10:22 +0100
            Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-09 20:19 +1100
            Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 09:21 -0700
        Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 09:32 -0700
      Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-09 19:56 +1100
        Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-09 12:47 +0100
          Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-09 23:01 +1100
            Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-09 13:38 +0100
              Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-09 14:00 +0100
                Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-10 00:33 +1100
                  Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-10 23:51 +1100
                    Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> - 2025-10-16 11:54 -0600
                      Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-10-16 14:37 -0500
                      Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-10-16 21:52 +0100
                      Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-17 20:43 +1100
                        Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Jordi Garcia Soler <jordialcoister@gmail.com> - 2025-10-30 12:04 +0100
                          Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-10-30 22:45 +1100

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#7947

On 2025-10-09, David H Durgee wrote:

> David H Durgee wrote:
>> Mark Bourne wrote:
>>> David H Durgee wrote:
>>>> David H Durgee wrote:
>>>>> Richmond wrote:
>>>>>> David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> writes:

>>>>>>> The URL for the window shows as:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://login.yahoo.com/?src=thunderbird&clientid=<long string>
>>>>>>>
[...]
>> I disabled ABE in No Script and those messages went away.  I still
>> see one No Script related error listed:
>>
>>> [NoScript] Force text/plain for missing content-type on
>>> https://api.login.yahoo.com/oauth2/request_auth?response_type=code&client_id=dj0yJmk9NUtCTWFMNVpTaVJmJmQ9WVdrOVJ6UjVTa2xJTXpRbWNHbzlNQS0tJnM9Y29uc3VtZXJzZWNyZXQmeD0yYw--&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost&scope=mail-w&login_hint=dhdurgee%40yahoo.com
>>>
>>
>> I don't know if that is directly related to the problem or not, it
>> sounds pretty innocuous and appears to confirm this relates to
>> oauth2 based on the URL.
>>
>> Unfortunately I am still getting nowhere with this.
>>
>> Dave
>
> I thought to try something with the above URL, I opened it in a
> Firefox tab enabling all scripting it requested and it was able to
> complete to a point where it tried to do something with localhost that
> failed.  It even sent me an email to my backup account about a
> Thunderbird login.

(Just to clarify:

The localhost part is because of the redirect_uri parameter in the
OAuth2 request, if you open this address in a browser, it will try to
redirect to localhost on success, that's expected.)

-- 
Nuno Silva

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#7908

On 9/10/2025 6:59 am, Mark Bourne wrote:
> David H Durgee wrote:
>> David H Durgee wrote:
>>> Richmond wrote:
>>>> David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Starting yesterday I am getting a problematic popup from
>>>>> imap.mail.yahoo.com every time it tries to check for mail.
>>>>>
>>>>> The popup requests that I login, but when I click the button after I
>>>>> enter the email and password I get a spinner and nothing else happens.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am assuming that something about the popup is causing problems for
>>>>> SeaMonkey 2.53.21 here.
>>>>>
>>>>> The URL for the window shows as:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://login.yahoo.com/?src=thunderbird&clientid=<long string>
>>>>>
>>>>> The window can be moved but remains on top.  No right click menu.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cannot highlight and copy the URL.
>>>>>
>>>>> The window title is "Enter credentials for" <myemai> on imap...
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously I cannot access yahoo mail at the moment and given it is
>>>>> non-functional all I can do is close the window.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I get this corrected?
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> It sounds like it is trying to set up Oauth2. Maybe you have to enable
>>>> javascript? Or maybe it is requesting 2FA?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I thought I had Oauth2 already setup on all my mail connections, but 
>>> perhaps I missed it.  Looking in my passwords do not show one for 
>>> that email address, so that may be the problem.
>>>
>>> I will look into how I need to get that working.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>> The error console shows [ABE} errors relating to this.  How do I fix 
>> that?
>>
>> Dave
> 
> I don't know if it might have other meanings, but to me "ABE" is 
> NoScript's "Application Boundaries Enforcer" that restricts which 
> domains can load Javascript and other resources from which other 
> domains.  It could be that the Yahoo login page is trying to load 
> Javascript from another Yahoo domain, and maybe you've configured ABE 
> rules that prevent that.  As far as I recall ABE isn't enabled by 
> default in NoScript, and has very few restrictions by default even if 
> enabled.  So if that is the problem, hopefully you'd know you've enabled 
> ABE at some point and that's enough of a clue to work out how to adjust 
> whatever rules you've set up.
> 
> Or it could be "ABE" has a completely different meaning in this context...!
> 
Mark, as I've just responded elsewhere in this thread, I, too, have been 
experiencing this same problem with Yahoo Mail for the last couple of days.

I don't have/have never had the NoScript Add-on installed on this 
computer .... but Yahoo Mail DID function until the last couple of days.

Just on spec, I cleared the Error Console (Tools -> Web Development -> 
Error Console) and then re-tried with SeaMonkey to log-in to my Yahoo 
Mail account but failed. The Error Console screen was filled with ....

Expected declaration but found '*'. Skipped to next declaration.
https://s.yimg.com/wm/mbr/172...............28e8/yahoo-main.css Line: 7

.... and lots of other Error messages as well!

-- 
Daniel70

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#7918

Mark Bourne wrote:

>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>> The error console shows [ABE} errors relating to this.  How do I fix 
>> that?
>>
>> Dave
> 
> I don't know if it might have other meanings, but to me "ABE" is 
> NoScript's "Application Boundaries Enforcer" that restricts which 
> domains can load Javascript and other resources from which other 
> domains.  It could be that the Yahoo login page is trying to load 
> Javascript from another Yahoo domain, and maybe you've configured ABE 
> rules that prevent that.  As far as I recall ABE isn't enabled by 
> default in NoScript, and has very few restrictions by default even if 
> enabled.  So if that is the problem, hopefully you'd know you've enabled 
> ABE at some point and that's enough of a clue to work out how to adjust 
> whatever rules you've set up.
> 
> Or it could be "ABE" has a completely different meaning in this context...!
> 

I'm a NoScript user, but have never interacted with ABE.

If NoScript is active, then it can be disruptive to mail connections. At 
the very least, you need to make sure that all of the scripting hosts 
that Yahoo mail uses have been whitelisted. A good place to start would 
be to make sure you have whitelisted the Yahoo sites that mail.yahoo.com 
uses for web access. That would include yahoo.com, yahoo.net, oath.com 
and yimg.com. The web client also uses googletagmanager, which may be 
necessary for use there, but probably isn't necessary for POP/IMAP/SMTP 
from the Seamonkey mail client. I would also whitelist yahooapis.com

I know that with Microsoft servers and OAuth2, I found that all of the 
authentication processes that they use take a little bit of effort to 
find all the necessary servers to whitelist, but I do have that working. 
But Yahoo's processes are far less complex than what Microsoft is 
imposing on its users.

Smith

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#7919

David H Durgee wrote:
>> It sounds like it is trying to set up Oauth2. Maybe you have to enable
>> javascript? Or maybe it is requesting 2FA?
>>
> 
> I thought I had Oauth2 already setup on all my mail connections, but 
> perhaps I missed it.  Looking in my passwords do not show one for that 
> email address, so that may be the problem.

I noted elsewhere in this thread that if NoScript is installed, then you 
definitely need to whitelist all the Yahoo-related domains in use (or as 
a testing thing, temporarily disable NoScript).

I believe that OAuth2 *is* a form of MFA.

Yahoo hasn't been as enthusiastic as Gmail and Microsoft about doing 
OAuth2, and I think the current status is that they're supporting OAuth2 
(and probably preferring it). The alternative to OAuth2 is that they 
continue to support "application passwords", where you go into Yahoo's 
configs and get a separate password that you save into your mail client, 
and where that's a different password than what you use to log into 
Yahoo directly.

I just made a check of my own Yahoo account, and I see that it's set to 
use Normal authentication, which would mean that I haven't bothered to 
convert that account OAuth2 (at least not in Seamonkey -- I also have 
that in setups on other machines, and I may have enabled OAuth2 there).

Probably the first step would be to review Yahoo's documentation on 
configuration of Thunderbird, and that should include instructions both 
on how to work with OAuth2 as well as a secondary password.

If you choose to continue with a secondary password, get a new one, and 
if you're getting a prompt for a password, enter that password.

On the other hand, I've lived with OAuth2 long enough that I'm used to 
it. Thus, you could go the route of removing all Yahoo passwords saved 
in the password manager. Then, when you try to check mail, you'll get 
the normal password request (enter your normal Yahoo password), and then 
when Seamonkey tries to connect to Yahoo's server, you should see a 
pop-up that demands your password. When you re-enter your regular 
password, then the OAuth2 token gets created, and should be sufficient 
for ongoing use.

I will note that this is how it *should* work, and I haven't actually 
seen Yahoo's dialogs recently enough to know if there's something I'm 
missing.

Smith

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#7907

On 9/10/2025 4:19 am, Richmond wrote:
> David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> writes:
> 
>> Starting yesterday I am getting a problematic popup from
>> imap.mail.yahoo.com every time it tries to check for mail.
>>
>> The popup requests that I login, but when I click the button after I
>> enter the email and password I get a spinner and nothing else happens.
>>
>> I am assuming that something about the popup is causing problems for
>> SeaMonkey 2.53.21 here.
>>
>> The URL for the window shows as:
>>
>> https://login.yahoo.com/?src=thunderbird&clientid=<long string>
>>
>> The window can be moved but remains on top.  No right click menu.
>>
>> Cannot highlight and copy the URL.
>>
>> The window title is "Enter credentials for" <myemai> on imap...
>>
>> Obviously I cannot access yahoo mail at the moment and given it is
>> non-functional all I can do is close the window.
>>
>> How do I get this corrected?
>>
>> Dave
> 
> It sounds like it is trying to set up Oauth2. Maybe you have to enable
> javascript? Or maybe it is requesting 2FA?
> 
Good suggestions, Richmond, but I have been experiencing the same thing 
with Yahoo mail over the past couple of days after it having worked for 
many years (since approx Feb 2018).

I have made NO CHANGES to my SeaMonkey installation. Yahoo mail just 
stopped working on Tuesday evening, I think i.e. two days ago ....

So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No problems 
.... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its system/coding which now 
causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo mail ..... as so many other 
sites are failing as well.

I'm sure the SM Devs are working at it.
-- 
Daniel70

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#7910

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:

> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No problems
> .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its system/coding which now
> causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo mail ..... as so many other
> sites are failing as well.
>

If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, so is it
webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using Seamonkey
Mail with Imap or POP3?

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#7911

On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
> 
>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No problems
>> .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its system/coding which now
>> causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo mail ..... as so many other
>> sites are failing as well.
>>
> 
> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, so is it
> webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using Seamonkey
> Mail with Imap or POP3?
> 
Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my 
SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any e-mail 
account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.

With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.
-- 
Daniel70

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#7913

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:

> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>> 
>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No
>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its
>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo mail
>>> ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.
>>>
>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, so is
>> it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using
>> Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?
>> 
> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my
> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any e-mail
> account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.
>
> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.

OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new
thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested webmail and
you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey browser, even when I
changed the user agent to chromium.

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#7914

On 2025-10-09, Richmond wrote:

> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>
>> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>> 
>>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No
>>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its
>>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo mail
>>>> ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.
>>>>
>>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, so is
>>> it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using
>>> Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?
>>> 
>> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my
>> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any e-mail
>> account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.
>>
>> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.
>
> OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new
> thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested webmail and
> you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey browser, even when I
> changed the user agent to chromium.

Is the webmail itself that does not work or just logging in? Or is it
not clear which one is failing?

-- 
Nuno Silva

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#7915

On 10/10/2025 12:00 am, Nuno Silva wrote:
> On 2025-10-09, Richmond wrote:
>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No
>>>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its
>>>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo mail
>>>>> ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.
>>>>>
>>>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, so is
>>>> it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using
>>>> Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?
>>>>
>>> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my
>>> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any e-mail
>>> account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.
>>>
>>> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.
>>
>> OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new
>> thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested webmail and
>> you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey browser, even when I
>> changed the user agent to chromium.
> 
> Is the webmail itself that does not work or just logging in? Or is it
> not clear which one is failing?
> 
With my Webmail, enter email address, new screen asking for Password, 
but even with correct Password, I just see a little spinning wheel at 
right hand end of "Next" bar.
-- 
Daniel70

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#7925

On 10/10/2025 12:33 am, Daniel70 wrote:
> On 10/10/2025 12:00 am, Nuno Silva wrote:
>> On 2025-10-09, Richmond wrote:
>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No
>>>>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its
>>>>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo mail
>>>>>> ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, so is
>>>>> it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using
>>>>> Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?
>>>>>
>>>> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my
>>>> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any e-mail
>>>> account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.
>>>>
>>>> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.
>>>
>>> OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new
>>> thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested webmail and
>>> you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey browser, even when I
>>> changed the user agent to chromium.
>>
>> Is the webmail itself that does not work or just logging in? Or is it
>> not clear which one is failing?
>>
> With my Webmail, enter email address, new screen asking for Password, 
> but even with correct Password, I just see a little spinning wheel at 
> right hand end of "Next" bar.

Elsewhere in this thread (in the discussion of Yahoo-mail NOW failing to 
download e-mail into an local SeaMonkey e-mail) it was suggested to try 
a new profile to see if that worked.

Just FYI, I've just now created a new Profile (Tools - Switch Profiles - 
Manage Profiles -> Create Profile) and, in that Browser Only 
incarnation, I tried logging into my Yahoo mail account (then went and 
made my Dinner) ..... and failed with the spinning wheel span and span.

So I don't think making a new Profile will fix the OP.
-- 
Daniel70

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#7992

Daniel70 wrote:
> On 10/10/2025 12:33 am, Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 10/10/2025 12:00 am, Nuno Silva wrote:
>>> On 2025-10-09, Richmond wrote:
>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
>>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No
>>>>>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its
>>>>>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo mail
>>>>>>> ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, so is
>>>>>> it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using
>>>>>> Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my
>>>>> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any e-mail
>>>>> account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.
>>>>>
>>>>> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.
>>>>
>>>> OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new
>>>> thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested webmail and
>>>> you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey browser, even when I
>>>> changed the user agent to chromium.
>>>
>>> Is the webmail itself that does not work or just logging in? Or is it
>>> not clear which one is failing?
>>>
>> With my Webmail, enter email address, new screen asking for Password, 
>> but even with correct Password, I just see a little spinning wheel at 
>> right hand end of "Next" bar.
> 
> Elsewhere in this thread (in the discussion of Yahoo-mail NOW failing to 
> download e-mail into an local SeaMonkey e-mail) it was suggested to try 
> a new profile to see if that worked.
> 
> Just FYI, I've just now created a new Profile (Tools - Switch Profiles - 
> Manage Profiles -> Create Profile) and, in that Browser Only 
> incarnation, I tried logging into my Yahoo mail account (then went and 
> made my Dinner) ..... and failed with the spinning wheel span and span.
> 
> So I don't think making a new Profile will fix the OP.

I have tried several times to get Yahoo mail working in SeaMonkey mail 
without success.  I finally decided to try doing so using app passwords 
and got nowhere there either.

At this point I broke down and opened Thunderbird.  I was able to 
quickly get Yahoo mail set up there.  I have disabled Yahoo mail in 
SeaMonkey.

If anyone has Yahoo mail working with IMAP/SMTP in SeaMonkey mail and 
can tell me exactly how they got it working I will be happy to try 
again, but until that point I am stuck with Thunderbird for it.

Dave

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#7993

David H Durgee wrote on 10/16/2025 12:54 PM:
> Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 10/10/2025 12:33 am, Daniel70 wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2025 12:00 am, Nuno Silva wrote:
>>>> On 2025-10-09, Richmond wrote:
>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
>>>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No
>>>>>>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its
>>>>>>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo 
>>>>>>>> mail
>>>>>>>> ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, so is
>>>>>>> it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using
>>>>>>> Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my
>>>>>> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any 
>>>>>> e-mail
>>>>>> account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new
>>>>> thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested webmail 
>>>>> and
>>>>> you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey browser, even when I
>>>>> changed the user agent to chromium.
>>>>
>>>> Is the webmail itself that does not work or just logging in? Or is it
>>>> not clear which one is failing?
>>>>
>>> With my Webmail, enter email address, new screen asking for Password, 
>>> but even with correct Password, I just see a little spinning wheel at 
>>> right hand end of "Next" bar.
>>
>> Elsewhere in this thread (in the discussion of Yahoo-mail NOW failing 
>> to download e-mail into an local SeaMonkey e-mail) it was suggested to 
>> try a new profile to see if that worked.
>>
>> Just FYI, I've just now created a new Profile (Tools - Switch Profiles 
>> - Manage Profiles -> Create Profile) and, in that Browser Only 
>> incarnation, I tried logging into my Yahoo mail account (then went and 
>> made my Dinner) ..... and failed with the spinning wheel span and span.
>>
>> So I don't think making a new Profile will fix the OP.
> 
> I have tried several times to get Yahoo mail working in SeaMonkey mail 
> without success.  I finally decided to try doing so using app passwords 
> and got nowhere there either.
> 
> At this point I broke down and opened Thunderbird.  I was able to 
> quickly get Yahoo mail set up there.  I have disabled Yahoo mail in 
> SeaMonkey.
> 
> If anyone has Yahoo mail working with IMAP/SMTP in SeaMonkey mail and 
> can tell me exactly how they got it working I will be happy to try 
> again, but until that point I am stuck with Thunderbird for it.
> 
> Dave

I just set up Imap yahoo email in seamonkey.  I used this info when 
setting up:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4075.html

In seamonkey's server settings I chose Qauth2.

It seems to be working, but at this point, I haven't changed the 
outgoing server to yahoo yet, so if it works, it will be using the 
google smtp server to send mail.  I'll change this next.

Good luck

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#7994

David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> writes:

> Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 10/10/2025 12:33 am, Daniel70 wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2025 12:00 am, Nuno Silva wrote:
>>>> On 2025-10-09, Richmond wrote:
>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
>>>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No
>>>>>>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its
>>>>>>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo
>>>>>>>> mail ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail,
>>>>>>> so is it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you
>>>>>>> using Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my
>>>>>> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any
>>>>>> e-mail account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new
>>>>> thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested
>>>>> webmail and you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey
>>>>> browser, even when I changed the user agent to chromium.
>>>>
>>>> Is the webmail itself that does not work or just logging in? Or is
>>>> it not clear which one is failing?
>>>>
>>> With my Webmail, enter email address, new screen asking for
>>> Password, but even with correct Password, I just see a little
>>> spinning wheel at right hand end of "Next" bar.  >> Elsewhere in
>>> this thread (in the discussion of Yahoo-mail NOW >> failing to
>>> download e-mail into an local SeaMonkey e-mail) it was >> suggested
>>> to try a new profile to see if that worked.  >> Just FYI, I've just
>>> now created a new Profile (Tools - Switch >> Profiles - Manage
>>> Profiles -> Create Profile) and, in that Browser >> Only
>>> incarnation, I tried logging into my Yahoo mail account (then >>
>>> went and made my Dinner) ..... and failed with the spinning wheel >>
>>> span and span.  >> So I don't think making a new Profile will fix
>>> the OP.
>
> I have tried several times to get Yahoo mail working in SeaMonkey mail
> without success.  I finally decided to try doing so using app
> passwords and got nowhere there either.
>
> At this point I broke down and opened Thunderbird.  I was able to
> quickly get Yahoo mail set up there.  I have disabled Yahoo mail in
> SeaMonkey.
>
> If anyone has Yahoo mail working with IMAP/SMTP in SeaMonkey mail and
> can tell me exactly how they got it working I will be happy to try
> again, but until that point I am stuck with Thunderbird for it.
>

Yes I have had it working with an app password for a long time, and
because you started this thread I managed to get it working with Oauth2
and described in detail how I did it, but it was no fun at all. I
recommend using an app password and second factor authentication for
security.

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#7995

On 17/10/2025 4:54 am, David H Durgee wrote:
> Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 10/10/2025 12:33 am, Daniel70 wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2025 12:00 am, Nuno Silva wrote:
>>>> On 2025-10-09, Richmond wrote:
>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
>>>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No
>>>>>>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its
>>>>>>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo 
>>>>>>>> mail
>>>>>>>> ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, so is
>>>>>>> it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using
>>>>>>> Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my
>>>>>> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any 
>>>>>> e-mail
>>>>>> account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new
>>>>> thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested webmail 
>>>>> and
>>>>> you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey browser, even when I
>>>>> changed the user agent to chromium.
>>>>
>>>> Is the webmail itself that does not work or just logging in? Or is it
>>>> not clear which one is failing?
>>>>
>>> With my Webmail, enter email address, new screen asking for Password, 
>>> but even with correct Password, I just see a little spinning wheel at 
>>> right hand end of "Next" bar.
>>
>> Elsewhere in this thread (in the discussion of Yahoo-mail NOW failing 
>> to download e-mail into an local SeaMonkey e-mail) it was suggested to 
>> try a new profile to see if that worked.
>>
>> Just FYI, I've just now created a new Profile (Tools - Switch Profiles 
>> - Manage Profiles -> Create Profile) and, in that Browser Only 
>> incarnation, I tried logging into my Yahoo mail account (then went and 
>> made my Dinner) ..... and failed with the spinning wheel span and span.
>>
>> So I don't think making a new Profile will fix the OP.
> 
> I have tried several times to get Yahoo mail working in SeaMonkey mail 
> without success.  I finally decided to try doing so using app passwords 
> and got nowhere there either.
> 
> At this point I broke down and opened Thunderbird.  I was able to 
> quickly get Yahoo mail set up there.  I have disabled Yahoo mail in 
> SeaMonkey.
> 
> If anyone has Yahoo mail working with IMAP/SMTP in SeaMonkey mail and 
> can tell me exactly how they got it working I will be happy to try 
> again, but until that point I am stuck with Thunderbird for it.
> 
> Dave

Well, reading the other two responses to your post, David, it seems it 
is possible to set your computer up to download your e-mail from yahoo.

I had wondered if I was unable to download my mail because I was using a 
freebie Yahoo e-mail account .... but it seems not.
-- 
Daniel70

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#8047

Daniel70 wrote:
> On 17/10/2025 4:54 am, David H Durgee wrote:
>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2025 12:33 am, Daniel70 wrote:
>>>> On 10/10/2025 12:00 am, Nuno Silva wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-10-09, Richmond wrote:
>>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>>> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
>>>>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No
>>>>>>>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its
>>>>>>>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with Yahoo 
>>>>>>>>> mail
>>>>>>>>> ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, 
>>>>>>>> so is
>>>>>>>> it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using
>>>>>>>> Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my
>>>>>>> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any 
>>>>>>> e-mail
>>>>>>> account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new
>>>>>> thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested 
>>>>>> webmail and
>>>>>> you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey browser, even 
>>>>>> when I
>>>>>> changed the user agent to chromium.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the webmail itself that does not work or just logging in? Or is it
>>>>> not clear which one is failing?
>>>>>
>>>> With my Webmail, enter email address, new screen asking for 
>>>> Password, but even with correct Password, I just see a little 
>>>> spinning wheel at right hand end of "Next" bar.
>>>
>>> Elsewhere in this thread (in the discussion of Yahoo-mail NOW failing 
>>> to download e-mail into an local SeaMonkey e-mail) it was suggested 
>>> to try a new profile to see if that worked.
>>>
>>> Just FYI, I've just now created a new Profile (Tools - Switch 
>>> Profiles - Manage Profiles -> Create Profile) and, in that Browser 
>>> Only incarnation, I tried logging into my Yahoo mail account (then 
>>> went and made my Dinner) ..... and failed with the spinning wheel 
>>> span and span.
>>>
>>> So I don't think making a new Profile will fix the OP.
>>
>> I have tried several times to get Yahoo mail working in SeaMonkey mail 
>> without success.  I finally decided to try doing so using app 
>> passwords and got nowhere there either.
>>
>> At this point I broke down and opened Thunderbird.  I was able to 
>> quickly get Yahoo mail set up there.  I have disabled Yahoo mail in 
>> SeaMonkey.
>>
>> If anyone has Yahoo mail working with IMAP/SMTP in SeaMonkey mail and 
>> can tell me exactly how they got it working I will be happy to try 
>> again, but until that point I am stuck with Thunderbird for it.
>>
>> Dave
> 
> Well, reading the other two responses to your post, David, it seems it 
> is possible to set your computer up to download your e-mail from yahoo.
> 
> I had wondered if I was unable to download my mail because I was using a 
> freebie Yahoo e-mail account .... but it seems not.

Hi, after some prove&error tests, I managed to get my Yahoo! mail 
account under SM mail v2.53.21 using application passwords generated 
with the help o a FF (we all have one for the pages we can't see with 
SM, right?)

My tries to got it work with OAUTH2 didn't work, all I got was the 
spinning wheel and finally a timeout.

Here are the steps I've done:
	
1. Open you Yahoo! account on a firefox browser and generate a new 
Application password for thunderbird IMAP connections.
2. Open seamonkey mail app and add a new account or edit yours. The 
correct server parameters are the following:
	Server type: IMAP Mail Server
	-Server Name: imap.mail.yahoo.com
	-Server Port: 993
	-Username: your yahoo e-mail
	Security Setting:
	-Connection Security: SSL/TLS
	-Authentication method: Normal Password
3. Clic on Get Msgs...
	-A dialog asking for a password will appear
	-Come back to FF and copy the application password you generated 
before, and paste it on seamonkey's mail password dialog and don't 
forget to check the remember password option, because Yahoo! won't 
reveal the application password again.

If you want to configure the Yahoo! smtp server, you need generate 
another application password under FF and paste it on SM whent it asks, 
and mark the save password option.
This is my Server configuration for SMTP:
	-Server Name: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
	-Port: 465
	Security Settings
	-Connection Security: SSL/TLS
	-Authentication method: Normal Password
	-User name: your yahoo e-mail

Remember that smtp servers are hold indenpent, so you should choose one 
for any imap server that you have configured or the default one would be 
used.

I hope this helps!

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#8049

On 30/10/2025 10:04 pm, Jordi Garcia Soler wrote:
> Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 17/10/2025 4:54 am, David H Durgee wrote:
>>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>>> On 10/10/2025 12:33 am, Daniel70 wrote:
>>>>> On 10/10/2025 12:00 am, Nuno Silva wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-10-09, Richmond wrote:
>>>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>>>> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No
>>>>>>>>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its
>>>>>>>>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with 
>>>>>>>>>> Yahoo mail
>>>>>>>>>> ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail, 
>>>>>>>>> so is
>>>>>>>>> it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using
>>>>>>>>> Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my
>>>>>>>> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any 
>>>>>>>> e-mail
>>>>>>>> account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new
>>>>>>> thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested 
>>>>>>> webmail and
>>>>>>> you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey browser, even 
>>>>>>> when I
>>>>>>> changed the user agent to chromium.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is the webmail itself that does not work or just logging in? Or is it
>>>>>> not clear which one is failing?
>>>>>>
>>>>> With my Webmail, enter email address, new screen asking for 
>>>>> Password, but even with correct Password, I just see a little 
>>>>> spinning wheel at right hand end of "Next" bar.
>>>>
>>>> Elsewhere in this thread (in the discussion of Yahoo-mail NOW 
>>>> failing to download e-mail into an local SeaMonkey e-mail) it was 
>>>> suggested to try a new profile to see if that worked.
>>>>
>>>> Just FYI, I've just now created a new Profile (Tools - Switch 
>>>> Profiles - Manage Profiles -> Create Profile) and, in that Browser 
>>>> Only incarnation, I tried logging into my Yahoo mail account (then 
>>>> went and made my Dinner) ..... and failed with the spinning wheel 
>>>> span and span.
>>>>
>>>> So I don't think making a new Profile will fix the OP.
>>>
>>> I have tried several times to get Yahoo mail working in SeaMonkey 
>>> mail without success.  I finally decided to try doing so using app 
>>> passwords and got nowhere there either.
>>>
>>> At this point I broke down and opened Thunderbird.  I was able to 
>>> quickly get Yahoo mail set up there.  I have disabled Yahoo mail in 
>>> SeaMonkey.
>>>
>>> If anyone has Yahoo mail working with IMAP/SMTP in SeaMonkey mail and 
>>> can tell me exactly how they got it working I will be happy to try 
>>> again, but until that point I am stuck with Thunderbird for it.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>> Well, reading the other two responses to your post, David, it seems it 
>> is possible to set your computer up to download your e-mail from yahoo.
>>
>> I had wondered if I was unable to download my mail because I was using 
>> a freebie Yahoo e-mail account .... but it seems not.
> 
> Hi, after some prove&error tests, I managed to get my Yahoo! mail 
> account under SM mail v2.53.21 using application passwords generated 
> with the help o a FF (we all have one for the pages we can't see with 
> SM, right?)
> 
> My tries to got it work with OAUTH2 didn't work, all I got was the 
> spinning wheel and finally a timeout.
> 
> Here are the steps I've done:
> 
> 1. Open you Yahoo! account on a firefox browser and generate a new 
> Application password for thunderbird IMAP connections.
> 2. Open seamonkey mail app and add a new account or edit yours. The 
> correct server parameters are the following:
>      Server type: IMAP Mail Server
>      -Server Name: imap.mail.yahoo.com
>      -Server Port: 993
>      -Username: your yahoo e-mail
>      Security Setting:
>      -Connection Security: SSL/TLS
>      -Authentication method: Normal Password
> 3. Clic on Get Msgs...
>      -A dialog asking for a password will appear
>      -Come back to FF and copy the application password you generated 
> before, and paste it on seamonkey's mail password dialog and don't 
> forget to check the remember password option, because Yahoo! won't 
> reveal the application password again.
> 
> If you want to configure the Yahoo! smtp server, you need generate 
> another application password under FF and paste it on SM whent it asks, 
> and mark the save password option.
> This is my Server configuration for SMTP:
>      -Server Name: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
>      -Port: 465
>      Security Settings
>      -Connection Security: SSL/TLS
>      -Authentication method: Normal Password
>      -User name: your yahoo e-mail
> 
> Remember that smtp servers are hold indenpent, so you should choose one 
> for any imap server that you have configured or the default one would be 
> used.
> 
> I hope this helps!

I sure it does, or, at least, WILL if ever I can be bothered to set it 
all up.

I've got a lot of stuff on my Yahoo account .... I don't know IF I 
actually want it on mt SSD!! ;-)
-- 
Daniel70

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