From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 30/10/2025 10:04 pm, Jordi Garcia Soler wrote:   
   > Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 17/10/2025 4:54 am, David H Durgee wrote:   
   >>> Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>> On 10/10/2025 12:33 am, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>>> On 10/10/2025 12:00 am, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 2025-10-09, Richmond wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Daniel70  writes:   
   >>>>>>>> On 9/10/2025 10:47 pm, Richmond wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> Daniel70  writes:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> So I am now logging in to my Yahoo account using Firefox. No   
   >>>>>>>>>> problems .... so I expect Yahoo has made changes to its   
   >>>>>>>>>> system/coding which now causes SeaMonkey to not work with   
   >>>>>>>>>> Yahoo mail   
   >>>>>>>>>> ..... as so many other sites are failing as well.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> If you are logging in with firefox then you are using webmail,   
   >>>>>>>>> so is   
   >>>>>>>>> it webmail that is not working with Seamonkey? Or are you using   
   >>>>>>>>> Seamonkey Mail with Imap or POP3?   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Yahoo Webmail (i.e. in a Browser Tab) has not worked for me in my   
   >>>>>>>> SeaMonkey Browser screen for a couple of days. I don't have any   
   >>>>>>>> e-mail   
   >>>>>>>> account set up in SeaMonkey Mail.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> With Firefox ... Yahoo Mail is not a problem.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> OK well this thread is about Imap. Perhaps you should create a new   
   >>>>>>> thread about webmail to avoid muddying the waters? I tested   
   >>>>>>> webmail and   
   >>>>>>> you are right, it doesn't work with the seamonkey browser, even   
   >>>>>>> when I   
   >>>>>>> changed the user agent to chromium.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Is the webmail itself that does not work or just logging in? Or is it   
   >>>>>> not clear which one is failing?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> With my Webmail, enter email address, new screen asking for   
   >>>>> Password, but even with correct Password, I just see a little   
   >>>>> spinning wheel at right hand end of "Next" bar.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Elsewhere in this thread (in the discussion of Yahoo-mail NOW   
   >>>> failing to download e-mail into an local SeaMonkey e-mail) it was   
   >>>> suggested to try a new profile to see if that worked.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Just FYI, I've just now created a new Profile (Tools - Switch   
   >>>> Profiles - Manage Profiles -> Create Profile) and, in that Browser   
   >>>> Only incarnation, I tried logging into my Yahoo mail account (then   
   >>>> went and made my Dinner) ..... and failed with the spinning wheel   
   >>>> span and span.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> So I don't think making a new Profile will fix the OP.   
   >>>   
   >>> I have tried several times to get Yahoo mail working in SeaMonkey   
   >>> mail without success.  I finally decided to try doing so using app   
   >>> passwords and got nowhere there either.   
   >>>   
   >>> At this point I broke down and opened Thunderbird.  I was able to   
   >>> quickly get Yahoo mail set up there.  I have disabled Yahoo mail in   
   >>> SeaMonkey.   
   >>>   
   >>> If anyone has Yahoo mail working with IMAP/SMTP in SeaMonkey mail and   
   >>> can tell me exactly how they got it working I will be happy to try   
   >>> again, but until that point I am stuck with Thunderbird for it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Dave   
   >>   
   >> Well, reading the other two responses to your post, David, it seems it   
   >> is possible to set your computer up to download your e-mail from yahoo.   
   >>   
   >> I had wondered if I was unable to download my mail because I was using   
   >> a freebie Yahoo e-mail account .... but it seems not.   
   >   
   > Hi, after some prove&error tests, I managed to get my Yahoo! mail   
   > account under SM mail v2.53.21 using application passwords generated   
   > with the help o a FF (we all have one for the pages we can't see with   
   > SM, right?)   
   >   
   > My tries to got it work with OAUTH2 didn't work, all I got was the   
   > spinning wheel and finally a timeout.   
   >   
   > Here are the steps I've done:   
   >   
   > 1. Open you Yahoo! account on a firefox browser and generate a new   
   > Application password for thunderbird IMAP connections.   
   > 2. Open seamonkey mail app and add a new account or edit yours. The   
   > correct server parameters are the following:   
   >      Server type: IMAP Mail Server   
   >      -Server Name: imap.mail.yahoo.com   
   >      -Server Port: 993   
   >      -Username: your yahoo e-mail   
   >      Security Setting:   
   >      -Connection Security: SSL/TLS   
   >      -Authentication method: Normal Password   
   > 3. Clic on Get Msgs...   
   >      -A dialog asking for a password will appear   
   >      -Come back to FF and copy the application password you generated   
   > before, and paste it on seamonkey's mail password dialog and don't   
   > forget to check the remember password option, because Yahoo! won't   
   > reveal the application password again.   
   >   
   > If you want to configure the Yahoo! smtp server, you need generate   
   > another application password under FF and paste it on SM whent it asks,   
   > and mark the save password option.   
   > This is my Server configuration for SMTP:   
   >      -Server Name: smtp.mail.yahoo.com   
   >      -Port: 465   
   >      Security Settings   
   >      -Connection Security: SSL/TLS   
   >      -Authentication method: Normal Password   
   >      -User name: your yahoo e-mail   
   >   
   > Remember that smtp servers are hold indenpent, so you should choose one   
   > for any imap server that you have configured or the default one would be   
   > used.   
   >   
   > I hope this helps!   
      
   I sure it does, or, at least, WILL if ever I can be bothered to set it   
   all up.   
      
   I've got a lot of stuff on my Yahoo account .... I don't know IF I   
   actually want it on mt SSD!! ;-)   
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   Daniel70   
      
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