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   Mark Bourne to David H Durgee   
   Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yaho   
   08 Oct 25 20:59:21   
   
   From: nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com   
      
   David H Durgee wrote:   
   > David H Durgee wrote:   
   >> Richmond wrote:   
   >>> David H Durgee  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=   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 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"  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...!   
      
   --   
   Mark.   
      
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