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Thunderbird users using Y! Mail, help me please?

May 19, 2005 5:16AM PDT

I'm a Yahoo user, and everything has been going fine with Thunderbird fetching mail from my account. Until now. It forgot my password, and made me enter it again. Fine, I entered it. I KNOW it is correct. But Thunderbird said, "Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk responded: Error logging in, please visit http://mail.yahoo.com" I tried entering my password several times. Still the same. I searched the Thunderbird KB in MozillaZINE, I found an entry: "Thunderbird forgets my password." It just said something about doing it again and again, and it wasn't much help. I was so desperate I even changed themes to see if it would work. I am using MS Windows XP with no SP, avast! AV Pro, ZA Firewall, WinPatrol. None of those interfered with Thunderbird before. I tried rebooting, too. And I even tried deleting my account and setting it up again. No success. I even reinstalled Thunderbird. I am using the latest version (1.0.2). But I can sign in on Y! Mail using a browser. And it was also by coincidence that I created a new account in Yahoo! Mail. Would that affect Thunderbird? Please help me here, I don't want to change mail clients because Thunderbird is the easiest to setup; and its junk mail filter rocks. PLEASE HELP ME! This has been going the whole day. I'm sorry if this is so long, I just wanted to make sure it was clear for all the people who were kind enough to help me! Happy

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This is happening to me too
May 21, 2005 1:45PM PDT

Wow, they sure have hosed up this part of Thunderbird. I changed my password in Yahoo, but I know I'm typing in the current one, but Thunderbird gives me the same message.

It's frustrating me.

Eric

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sick!
May 22, 2005 12:04AM PDT

It has been happening for DAYS! I'm thinking of switching to The Bat! or Outlook. But nothing STILL beats Thunderbird in the ease of use part; and the anti-spam. Please post again if you figure out how to solve the problem.

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Big problems.
May 25, 2005 2:26AM PDT

I tried The Bat! but the same error message showed up. Sending of password did not succeed blah blah blah. I'm desperate! Please post and HELP!

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try this link
Jun 6, 2005 3:53AM PDT
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Thunderbird users using Y! Mail, help me please?
Jul 12, 2005 3:37AM PDT

i made it work. i used te settings for netscape
pop3 server: pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk in the Server Name box.
port 110.
Under User Name, type your Yahoo! Mail ID (your email address without the "@yahoo.co.uk").
dont check use secure connection (ssl) and use secure authentication
smtp server: smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk
port 587
check use name and password
type your Yahoo! Mail ID (your email address without the "@yahoo.co.uk").
check "no" for use secure connection
In the Email Address box, type your Yahoo! Mail address (be sure to include "@yahoo.co.uk").
Click "OK."