On 2016-10-11 03:29, Sean Greenslade wrote:
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 07:18:36PM -0700, William Boozer wrote:
Yesterday I logged in to my yahoo mail from a desktop... And it said
that someone was trying to access my account from an unauthorized
source or something to that effect... So I selected what it
recommended... Now my K-9 Mail is no longer working... What do I need
to do to get it back operable
Contact Yahoo? Perhaps you need to reset your password, or re-enable
IMAP, or something of that nature. All Yahoo problems, not really
anything to do with K-9.
Actually in this case we might be able to do something. However it'll
take some time and I'm not a big fan of Yahoo right now for several
reasons:
1. The state sponsored hack
2. The search of all emails without notifying their own security team
3. They aren't advertising the authentication method their own app uses
in the IMAP capabilities.
4. They've changed it overnight, with no effort made to contact popular
apps.
Anyway, I'm going to request information to see if we can get K-9 to
support whatever their 'more-secure' system is. If it's similar to
Google's XOAUTH2 it might land in the next stable release subject to
testing - depending on how easy it is to request a token. (I've got a PR
for Google's XOAUTH 2 (their 'more-secure', documented method). If not
it will depend on the complexity - though I have a test account and
recently improved the testing in this area of code..
For now you can enable 'less-secure' apps. Personally I consider Yahoo
itself to be the least secure bit in this scenario regardless.
- Philip Whitehouse
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