Thunderbird needs oauth password for ATT plus adding another email for Zoho and I made a mess
I had been using thunderbird with ATT and I got hacked. I fixed it with a new password and it would not receive and email. I was using firefox. This happened 5 or so weeks ago. I do not want to lose a lot of folder with old emails and the address book. Then I remembered today I used to have to use IE instead of firefox with ATT security. I got a reset from ATT and it would not work in firefox so I used Chrome and I could reset the password finally. Now I have to reset the Oauth password for Thunderbird (thb). I cannot find my directions. That is the easy part. With Zoho I do not know how to put in the password in thb for the ATT and my Zoho acct. Plus I want to add a 3rd and 4th accnts.
Then I see you are having a lot of the passwords are not working and people cannot log into thb. Something to the affect the around version 60 or thb the was passwords were done was changed and if you did not run that version then you would not have the change that it is not in other new versions. So I got a mess with tbd and passwords and how to do things. I do not see how you can do this in written form like this. Help, please help. My phone is a land line and it is [removed phone# from public support forum]. I do not have call waiting and if the phone is busy you have to try again. Sorry about that.
Thanks ahead of time,
Al Repasky [removed address information from public support forum]
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ATT never acquired an oauth secret, so Thunderbird will never be able to function with ATT designated server names the same as it does with Yahoo, who does have an oauth secret.
ATT require the use of a "mailkey" instead of a password. https://www.att.com/support/article/email-support/KM1240308/ That is despite the authentication method being set to "normal password".
You could just use the yahoo server names with your att email address as user name and use yahoo oauth, but that is not supposed to be how it is done. (but it works)
Fundamentally ATT signed up for a pig a decade or so ago and still have no idea how the product they contracted Yahoo to supply really works, so they have these rather bizarre workarounds to cover the deficiencies of their contracted service, and require you to use ATT's poisoned DNS servers to get results no one else on the internet gets. That it inconveniences their customers it quite possibly seen as a bonus by ATT. They do not want to offer email anyway. If enough folk don't use the provided mail they will discontinue it as a expense and be happy they got rid of another support pain point.