AOL have sent an identically worded email to their customers. Yahoo and
AOL have different owners, so why this across-the-board rush to up
security. What is behind this?
The letter is badly written, and it remains less than clear exactly what
they want you to do, and what will or might happen (that you don't want
to happen) if you do it. Basically, it's an ultimatum dressed up as
usual in a lot of fancy PR talk.
You mention the instructions for Thunderbird as saying to delete your
current account and then create a new one. The problem is that this sort
of statement (theirs, not yours) lacks explicitness. For a start, I'm
not even sure if you can delete an account, at the server end. I took
them to mean that you had to remove the account from your email client
configuration and then replace all that, possibly with some new values
and/or options supplied by them. But if this is the sort of thing they
are talking about, they need to say so much more explicitly and with
more precise detail.
David H. Durgee wrote:
I received the following rather problematic email from Yahoo this morning:
Hey David,
We love that you love using your Yahoo Mail. And we want to make sure you
always have the best experience. That’s why we’re reaching out today.
We’ve noticed that you’re using non-Yahoo applications (such as third-party
email, calendar, or contact applications) that may use a less secure sign-in
method. To protect you and your data, Yahoo will no longer support the current
sign-in functionality in your application starting on October 20, 2020. This
means that you will need to take one of the steps below to continue using Yahoo
Mail without interruption.
But don’t worry, you have options. Find an option that works best for you below:
Option 1: We recommend that you access your email using our free Yahoo Mail app
for iOS and Android or simply go to mail.yahoo.com to access Yahoo Mail on the
web.
Option 2: Keep your current, non-Yahoo app, BUT follow a few steps to get it to
sync with our secure sign-in method. The steps vary across different email
applications, but in most cases, you will have to remove your Yahoo account
from the app and then add it back again to update the sign-in security. Use the
links below to follow the specific steps for your current application:
iOS Mail
Gmail
Samsung Mail
Others
Option 3: You can generate a one-time, unique password that will allow you to
sign in to your account using your non-Yahoo email application. Once created,
this password will continue to allow your app to securely sync your Yahoo email
unless you sign out (or are signed out) from your app. You can find
instructions on how to do this here.
If you want more details on these changes, please visit our help page. If
you’ve already taken action, we’d like to think you haven’t read this far, but
if you have . . . we sure appreciate the diligence!
Thanks for rocking that Yahoo Mail address!
Yours in your inbox,
The Yahoo Team
I followed that others link and found some instructions for Thunderbird
that involve deleting my current account and creating a new one. I have
no intention of deleting my current account, I simply want to change my
server settings to conform with their new "more secure" requirements.
Has anyone else received this notice and made the required changes so
that you can tell me how to fix this mess they are insisting on?
Dave
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