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   David H Durgee to David H Durgee   
   Re: Problematic popup for imap.mail.yaho   
   09 Oct 25 11:58:16   
   
   From: dhdurgee@privacy.net   
      
   David H Durgee wrote:   
   > Mark Bourne wrote:   
   >> 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...!   
   >>   
   >   
   > I disabled ABE in No Script and those messages went away.  I still see   
   > one No Script related error listed:   
   >   
   >> [NoScript] Force text/plain for missing content-type on   
   >> https://api.login.yahoo.com/oauth2/request_auth?response_type   
   code&client_id=dj0yJmk9NUtCTWFMNVpTaVJmJmQ9WVdrOVJ6UjVTa2xJTXpRb   
   NHbzlNQS0tJnM9Y29uc3VtZXJzZWNyZXQmeD0yYw--&redirect_uri=http%3A%   
   F%2Flocalhost&scope=mail-w&login_hint=dhdurgee%40yahoo.com   
   >>   
   >   
   > I don't know if that is directly related to the problem or not, it   
   > sounds pretty innocuous and appears to confirm this relates to oauth2   
   > based on the URL.   
   >   
   > Unfortunately I am still getting nowhere with this.   
   >   
   > Dave   
      
   I thought to try something with the above URL, I opened it in a Firefox   
   tab enabling all scripting it requested and it was able to complete to a   
   point where it tried to do something with localhost that failed.  It   
   even sent me an email to my backup account about a Thunderbird login.   
      
   This morning I tried the same thing in a Seamonkey tab and wind up with   
   a spinner after entering the password.  Looking in the error console I see:   
      
   > Timestamp: 10/9/25, 11:51:19 AM MDT   
   > Error: SyntaxError: missing : after property id   
   > Source File: https://s.yimg.com/aaq/benji/benji-2.3.23.js   
   > Line: 1, Column: 25600   
   > Source Code:   
   > s[n]=e.benji.debug.logs[n]||[]).push(r)}}class fs{_googletag;f   
   atures;refreshQueue;debounceTimer;constructor(){return th   
      
   > Timestamp: 10/9/25, 11:51:19 AM MDT   
   > Error: about:blank : Unable to run script because scripts are blocked   
   internally.   
      
   > Timestamp: 10/9/25, 11:51:21 AM MDT   
   > Error: about:blank : Unable to run script because scripts are blocked   
   internally.   
      
   So it appears that Yahoo is indeed doing something SeaMinkey isn't   
   supporting.   
      
   Dave   
      
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