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Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using Thunderbird (78.13.0)?

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On 2021-09-10 18:11, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 11.09.2021 02:39, Gary Dale wrote:
>> I've got a Yahoo mail account (among others) that I use for a 
>> particular purpose. However it's been a while since I've been able to 
>> send e-mail from it using Yahoo's smtp servers. Instead I've been 
>> sending e-mail via another smtp server so the "From" address doesn't 
>> match the login domain. Gmail apparently now considers that to be 
>> sufficient reason to bounce the e-mail so I've been trying to get 
>> Thunderbird to use the Yahoo server to send mail for this account.
>>
>> So far I haven't been able to come up with any combination of 
>> settings, including removing the account and recreating it in 
>> Thunderbird, that allow the mail to go through.
>>
>> The messages I get either complain about the password or tell me "An 
>> error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: Request 
>> failed; Mailbox unavailable. Please check the message and try again."
>>
>> Does anyone have Thunderbird and Yahoo working together?
>>
>>
> Pretty sure, it's the issue with Yahoo¹ ², nothing to do with Thunderbird.
> Yahoo is following the same path as GMail, forcing their users to use 
> web browsers as mail clients.
> In case of GMail you have to use same generated "app-password" for 
> both IMAP and SMTP services.
> I guess the same principle will be for Yahoo.
>
>
> [1] 
> https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account/temporary-access-insecure-sln27791.html
> [2] 
> https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account/generate-manage-third-party-passwords-sln15241.html
> -- 
Yes, I've tried the app passwords without success. As near as I can 
tell, they are just a randomly generated secure password that is linked 
to a particular application as well as the account.

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is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-09-10 23:50 +0200
  Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-09-11 00:20 +0200
    Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-09-11 03:00 +0200
      Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-12 11:50 +0200
  Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-09-11 00:30 +0200
    Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? jeremy ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-09-11 00:40 +0200
      Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-09-11 03:00 +0200
        Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-09-11 03:00 +0200
        Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-09-11 03:50 +0200
        Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-09-11 04:00 +0200
    Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-09-11 03:00 +0200
      OT: Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-11 03:50 +0200
        Re: OT: Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers  using Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-09-11 04:00 +0200
  Re: is it possible to send e-mail via Yahoo's smtp servers using  Thunderbird (78.13.0)? Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2021-09-12 05:10 +0200

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