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| From | David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.software.seamonkey |
| Subject | Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yahoo.com |
| Date | 2025-10-14 13:47 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <ml7nn4Fpko7U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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Richmond wrote:
> Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:
>
>> Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>>> Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> David H Durgee <dhdurgee@privacy.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> 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...!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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. This morning I tried the same
>>>>>> thing in a Seamonkey tab and wind up with a spinner after entering
>>>>>> the password. Looking in the error console I see:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Timestamp: 10/9/25, 11:51:19 AM MDT Error: SyntaxError: missing :
>>>>>>> after property id Source File:
>>>>>>> https://s.yimg.com/aaq/benji/benji-2.3.23.js Line: 1, Column:
>>>>>>> 25600 Source Code: s[n]=e.benji.debug.logs[n]||[]).push(r)}}class
>>>>>>> fs{_googletag;features;refreshQueue;debounceTimer;constructor(){return
>>>>>>> th
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Timestamp: 10/9/25, 11:51:19 AM MDT Error: about:blank : Unable to
>>>>>>> run script because scripts are blocked internally.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Timestamp: 10/9/25, 11:51:21 AM MDT Error: about:blank : Unable to
>>>>>>> run script because scripts are blocked internally. >> So it
>>>>>>> appears that Yahoo is indeed doing something SeaMinkey isn't >>
>>>>>>> supporting. >> Dave
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have Thunderbird on my system as well, but I don't use it as I
>>>>> prefer SeaMonkey. If I were to set up Thunderbird to access Yahoo
>>>>> mail via IMAP and SMTP with oauth2, assuming it will work, would
>>>>> there be a way to pull the oauth2 entry from it and add it to the
>>>>> SeaMonkey password file to get it working here?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I tried with Thunderbird, the next thing which came up after the
>>>> password prompt (which was where it got stuck with seamonkey) was a
>>>> dialog requesting that I choose where to send a
>>>> one-time-password. I.e. the 2fa dialog. It was possible to select
>>>> from the url but it had 'thunderbird' embedded in it, so I didn't
>>>> bother to try. Another thing I noticed when using Seamonkey is that
>>>> when you get stuck on the password prompt you can click "yahoo" top
>>>> left and you get prompted to accept cookies. After tha however there
>>>> is no way to go back to the password prompt.
>>>
>>> I've noticed that if I disable javascript I can get the 2FA popup,
>>> however I don't get any further than that. Perhaps what is needed is
>>> an on-the-fly javascript toggle button.
>>
>> I did it! I logged into Yahoo Webmail using Seamonkey. I had to ask an
>> AI to create a Javascript toggle button extension. Then I entered user
>> name and password without javascript until the 2fa prompt came up, then
>> I enabled javascript and logged in. It's only taken a few hours. :(
>
> I have also got Yahoo Oauth2 working with Seamonkey, but I am not
> entirely sure how I did it, other than turning javascript on and off,
> and sort of inching forward a bit further each time.
>
I tired this approach with my imap mail account and I got to the point
of the 2FA choice, but after putting in the code I get the spinner when
I check the box to stay verified and click the next button.
You both say you got into webmail. Did that place an Oauth2 token in
the password file? If so, I will have to try that myself and see if the
problem is solved in mail as well.
Dave
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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
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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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