Yahoo Mail has stopped working in Thunderbird

[feveal]

For about a week now, Yahoo Mail has stopped working in Thunderbird on my PC (Kubuntu 24.04). Now I can only access it from my smartphone using the Gmail app for Android or the Outlook app for Android. I suspect Yahoo has made some changes to its servers that are now preventing it from accepting requests the way Thunderbird does. I get a window with this error: "Edge: Too Many Requests"

Does this happen to anyone else?

Thanks

[feveal · Accepted solution]

Thank you so much, I've got it working now. I've never needed to do this before, and I've had my Yahoo account with Thunderbird for years.

[wsm · Accepted solution]

Yahoo is working again with oauth autentication. 

[feveal · Accepted solution]

I've managed to access my POP account again. The Yahoo login window appeared, prompting me for my password and mobile confirmation. Just to clarify, it didn't work on the first try; I got an error message five times saying "Something went wrong," please try again. But it worked on the sixth try. Thank you so much for fixing it.

[siffemcon]

This is a Yahoo problem.

This is the usual fix:

First, generate an app PW - see https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN15241.html.

Then go to TB menu > Settings > Privacy & Security > Passwords:
- click the 'Saved Passwords' button and edit the Yahoo entry to add your new app PW

- if there is no Yahoo entry, it should be created when you next log in successfully

Next, go to TB menu > Account Settings > Server Settings and set the following:
- Server Name: export.imap.mail.yahoo.com
- Port: 993
- Connection Security: SSL/TLS
- Authentication method: Normal password

On the left column, scroll down and click 'Outgoing Server' and edit the Yahoo entry:
- Server Name: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- Port: 465 or 587
- Connection Security: SSL/TLS
- Authentication method: Normal password

After that's done, click your Inbox. If you need to enter a PW, enter the app PW you just created.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

On https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/thunderbird there are many similar topics.

[feveal · Accepted solution]

Thank you so much, I've got it working now. I've never needed to do this before, and I've had my Yahoo account with Thunderbird for years.

[wsm · Accepted solution]

Yahoo is working again with oauth autentication. 

[feveal · Accepted solution]

I've managed to access my POP account again. The Yahoo login window appeared, prompting me for my password and mobile confirmation. Just to clarify, it didn't work on the first try; I got an error message five times saying "Something went wrong," please try again. But it worked on the sixth try. Thank you so much for fixing it.

[feveal · Accepted solution]

I almost forgot, there's no need to ask for the "Application Password"