On 3/15/2017 6:02 AM, David H. Durgee wrote: > David H. Durgee wrote: >> Since 9 March I have been unable to retrieve my Yahoo mail in SeaMonkey >> via their POP3 server. I have made no changes, so I assume it is a >> problem or change on their end. When I attempt to manually retrieve >> Yahoo mail I get: >> >> "The POP3 mail server (pop.mail.yahoo.com) does not support UIDL or XTND >> XLST, which are required to implement the ``Leave on Server'', ``Maximum >> Message Size'' or ``Fetch Headers Only'' options. To download your mail, >> turn off these options in the Server Settings for your mail server in >> the Account Settings window." >> >> Of course I AM interested in leaving messages on the server in case I am >> out of the office and want to check Yahoo mail. Is anyone else seeing >> this problem? Is there an alternative POP3 server for Yahoo that does >> work properly? >> >> I seem to recall seeing this problem occasionally in the past and >> thought that it occurred when Yahoo had some sort of a POP3 server crash >> and failed to initially recover all functions. But in this case almost >> a week has passed and the problem still remains. >> >> Are there any other alternatives to retrieve Yahoo mail with SeaMonkey? >> I have no interest in using web mail in the office. >> >> Dave > > I think I may have found the answer to my question. Anyone else using > Yahoo mail via POP3 see this article: > > https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail-for-desktop/sln28161.html > > It appears that Yahoo is dropping POP3 support effective at the end of > the month. They suggest using IMAP instead.
Wow... interesting. I found this thread as well: <https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Sending-and-receiving/External-E-mail-Account-will-no-longer-be-imported/td-p/203999> I have multiple POP3 accounts with yahoo (on both SeaMonkey & Thunderbird), several are both IMAP and POP3. I've not had any notice as indicated in the forums thread, but I reckon that I'll duplicate the remainder just in case. > > How can I switch over in SeaMonkey 2.48 from POP3 to IMAP? Do I need to > set up an entirely new mail account, or can I simply edit the server > configuration for the current mail account? Will there be any problems > I should expect with the conversion? As TCW stated - create new IMAP accounts in parallel with your POP3 accounts. The only thing I'd do differently is just keep both the POP3 and IMAP accounts until the POP3 stops working - can't hurt & if you have sufficient storage space, set the IMAP accounts to keep the messages on the computer (Synchronization & Storage|Message Synchronizing|tick 'Keep messages for this account on this computer'). I distiguish between the two by including POP3 or IMAP in the account name (e.g. username@yahoo IMAP or username @yahoo POP3). Thanks for pointing out the yahoo KB. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
