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| From | NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.software.seamonkey |
| Subject | Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com |
| Date | 2025-10-09 09:32 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10c8o3o$316j4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <mknh9jF1qqoU1@mid.individual.net> <864is9pb09.fsf@example.com> <mknqcbF3a78U1@mid.individual.net> |
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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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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