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



On 2021-09-10 20:51, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2021-09-10 18:32, jeremy ardley wrote:

On 11/09/2021 6:26 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote:

On 11/9/21 5:39 am, Gary Dale wrote:


Does anyone have Thunderbird and Yahoo working together?



I have it running on thunderbird. Both imap and smtp use ssl/tls and oauth2

smtp uses port 465 while imap uses port 993

I have some memory getting oauth2 to work may have been a bit of effort.


This may be relevant. You need to remove any stored passwords after you apply oauth2 to an account.

https://www.supertechcrew.com/thunderbird-oauth2-gmail/

Jeremy

I've tried that already but I'll give it another go. I actually removed all my stored Thunderbird passwords for Yahoo before I recreated the account in Thunderbird.

I may have spoke too soon. Got this message "An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:  Request failed; Mailbox unavailable. Please check the message and try again." when I tried to send an e-mail from the account. The only change I made to the settings was I set a reply-to...  The message went into my sent folder after I cleared the error (for the second time) but it isn't showing up in the online (yahoo.com) sent folder but an earlier test message I sent is there.

When I removed the reply-to header, the message went out without problems and showed up in the online sent folder as well.

It looks like at least part of my problem aws the use of a reply-to address.

>>>>>>>>>

Found it. I also needed to remove the smtp server for Yahoo. When Thunderbird set up the account, it simply reused the existing smtp.mail.yahoo.com server definition. Even when I set that up correctly, it wasn't working. However when I deleted it along with the pop account, it recreated it from scratch and now it seems to work.

I note that I now have 3 saved passwords for the account:
1) mailbox:// ... for the pop server
2) oauth:// ....
3) smtp:// ...

The passwords are all the same - the very long computer generated one.




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