What setting should I use for att.yahoo.com?
I've been using Thunderbird for my e-mail pickup for years. Just today something happened to my hgreeb@att.net account.
Thunderbird reports that my password is incorrect, but doesn't allow another password to be entered.
I delete the passwords for inbound.att.net and outbound.att.net from the password manager, and Thuderbird allows me to enter the new password, which works with the yahoo mail when I access it through my firefox browser, but it doesn't work with Thunderbird. It takes the new password, but then reports that the password is incorrect, but doesn't allow for entry of a new password. Of course it wouldn't work.
Help, please. Thanks in advance.
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There have been quite a few reports of this type of problem recently, so I first ask if you have these settings for your account:
incoming POP server: inbound.att.net on port 995 or incoming IMAP server: imap.mail.att.net on port 993 Connection security: SSL/TLS Authentication: normal password User name: CustomerID@att.net
outgoing SMTP server: outbound.att.net on port 465 for POP or smtp.mail.att.net on port 465 for IMAP Connection security: SSL/TLS Authentication: normal password User name: CustomerID@att.net
Note that the User name is the full email address.
Has att.yahoo.com changed from a POP server to the IMAP server? My info was, for several years, that the POP server is the correct one. I have the setting you suggest.
The POP server doesn't work. It comes back with "Sending of password for user hgreeb@att.net did not succeed. Mail server inbound.att.net responded: " But does not follow with a way to change password.
I remain befuddled, and have to get my e-mail via the web client which I treat as a kluge. I'll try the IMAP server, just for the fish (halibut).
What setting or service offering Yahoo has is really a question for them.
Some users have had to go to the Yahoo site and adjust the new security settings that they have dreamed up. You might check into that.
To change passwords in TB, open Tools/Options/Security/Passwords/Saved Passwords, delete the existing password, exit Options, and enter the new password when prompted the next time you connect to the account.
If ATT doesn't offer IMAP accounts, then it is time to use a mail provider that does. But since Yahoo offers IMAP access, I would be surprised if ATT doesn't.
If you receive an 'incorrect password' error, it could be due to ATT/Yahoo 2-step verification requirements, if they exist, that would require the generation of an app-specific password for TB access to the account, POP or IMAP.
Seems like a miracle happened. I can now receive messages from inbound.att.net with Thunderbird. I still cannot send messages through outbound.att.net with Thunderbird. Maybe AT&T is catching enough h..l about this incongruity that they're telling yahoo to clean up their act.
I dunno, I'd sure like to find a DSL service for my part of SW Michigan. Folks a few miles south of here have Frontier, but Frontier hasn't got this far north. There's one other, but it's three times as expensive using satellites for the link, and I'm a cheepskate.
Does sending on port 587 with STARTTLS security work?
I have no idea with STARTTLS is. please educate me. Thanks
Open Tools/Account Settings, at the bottom of the left pane select Outgoing Server (SMTP), then select the server in the right pane, Edit, change the security and port, OK, OK, restart TB.
ok i will try that