You cannot use your normal Yahoo password. You need to generate an app password.
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/pop-access-settings-instructions-yahoo-mail-sln4724.html On Monday, June 23, 2025 8:55:58 AM Mountain Standard Time MERLIN wrote: > Hey, > I am changing computers and I am migrating all applications from one computer > to another, both computers have the same Linux Kde Debian SID system. The > configuration of Kontact (Kmail) creates a problem for me that I cannot > resolve. I have three POP3 mailboxes for two of the mailboxes I have not hadI > am changing computers and I am migrating all applications from one computer > toI am changing computers and I am migrating all applications from one > computer to another, both computers have the same Linux Kde Debian SID system. > The configuration of Kontact (Kmail) creates a problem for me that I cannot > resolve. I have three POP3 mailboxes for two of the mailboxes I have not had > any problem a little surprised anyway by the fact that we cannot enter the > password of the mailbox at this time and that it is only requested at the > first attempt to receive messages from this mailbox. For a mailbox managed by > Yahoo I cannot access each time after a certain time I have the message > indicating that the password is incorrect, I made several attempts by > scrupulously checking the password without success, I access without problem > by firefox to this yahoo mailbox with this password. On my old computer with > Contact, I have no problem accessing this Yahoo mailbox. > I don't know what to do anymore. Could you help me solve this problem? > another, both computers have the same Linux Kde Debian SID system. The > configuration of Kontact (Kmail) creates a problem for me that I cannot > resolve. I have three POP3 mailboxes for two of the mailboxes I have not had > any problem a little surprised anyway by the fact that we cannot enter the > password of the mailbox at this time and that it is only requested at the > first attempt to receive messages from this mailbox. For a mailbox managed by > Yahoo I cannot access each time after a certain time I have the message > indicating that the password is incorrect, I made several attempts by > scrupulously checking the password without success, I access without problem > by firefox to this yahoo mailbox with this password. On my old computer with > Contact, I have no problem accessing this Yahoo mailbox. > I don't know what to do anymore. Could you help me solve this problem? any > problem a little surprised anyway by the fact that we cannot enter the > password of the mailbox at this time and that it is only requested at the > first attempt to receive messages from this mailbox. For a mailbox managed by > Yahoo I cannot access each time after a certain time I have the message > indicating that the password is incorrect, I made several attempts by > scrupulously checking the password without success, I access without problem > by firefox to this yahoo mailbox with this password. On my old computer with > Contact, I have no problem accessing this Yahoo mailbox. > I don't know what to do anymore. Could you help me solve this problem? > Philippe MERLIN -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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