bo1953 wrote: > mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: >> bo1953 wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I Am having challenges with retrieving email from only one (1) yahoo >>> account. >>> >>> I Am using SM 2.46 on a W10 machine. >>> >>> Each time SM opens and retrieves email for the one (1) account, the >>> message: >>> >>> "Sending of password for user XXXXX did not succeed. Mail server >>> pop.mail.yahoo.com responded." >> >> That usually happens when the mail server rejects the login. Usually >> there would be a bit more after that, saying what the mail server's >> response was (some sort of failure message, e.g. incorrect username or >> password). If that's really all there is, it looks like the mail server >> is rejecting the login but not providing a message to say what the >> problem is - which confusingly makes the message appear to be a simple >> statement that the server did respond. >> >>> I have no challenges on my Vista and XP machines. >> >> Be aware that Windows XP support ended a few years ago, so it has not >> been receiving updates since then and any security issues discovered >> with it will not be fixed. Windows Vista support ends on 11 April this >> year, after which it will not receive updates either. >> >>> Any ideas or suggestions to consider? >> >> Check that you've entered the username and password correctly. You may >> have mistyped one or other. Usernames for email servers sometimes need >> to include the whole email address (including the part after the @), and >> sometimes only the part before the @ - so make sure you've got that >> right (compare with the machines which do work). >> >> Also make sure you've got the right settings for connection security and >> authentication method (again, you should be able to compare the settings >> with your other machines which do work). >> > > Mark > > Thank you for your reply and thoughts.... > > You are correct, there is a '+' (without quotes) which appears as the message, > not sure how I missed it... > > I have checked all settings against each machine and all appears to be good. > > Could it just be yahoo issue overall? > > TIA - bo1953 Because of all of the security issues with Yahoo as discussed here:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account/SLN27927.html?impressions=true you may want to enter change your password to see if that will let you log in. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
