Some people seem to have more problems with this than others. In any case it's a problem with Yahoo rather than Thunderbird or the extensions. While it may be possible to code the extension to notify the user when the captcha pops up (maybe it does, it's never happened to me, but you and others obviously do experience this), human intervention is necessary to clear the captcha. After all, that's what a captcha is for, to prevent automated access to a service that the provider wants to be only available to real people. Yahoo doesn't want people to use software like the webmail extensions to access their webmail. They want people to visit the site and see the advertising, or pay to have the POP access provided by Yahoo. The bottom line is that there's nothing that the programmers who produce Thunderbird or the webmail extensions can do to prevent Yahoo using the captcha pop up.
Jeff wrote: > I know that it is Yahoo prompting this image... but do we *really* > need to pop it up every time Yahoo requests it? > > I use webmail to monitor an email account that receives periodic > messages daily -- 2-3 an hour, and I only *send* or *reply* once every > 2-3 *days*. > > Popping up a window with the yahoo captcha every time messages are > checked for. Does Yahoo really make you fill out a captcha every time > a message is retrieved? > > Also, can we avoid having the popup? There appears to be a *serious* > bug in thunderbird so that any time a dialog box, such as the yahoo > captcha or a password prompt, all email retrieval halts. This means > that while I was out of town for a week, my filters broke and I went > over quota, because the damn yahoo captcha popped up. > > Before you think I am just another complaining user, I want to add > that I find this plugin to be *amazing* and I use it for multiple > accounts, usually for some deficient email provider like yahoo, so I > can join some yahoo group the moron admins think ought to require a > yahoo email account. > > If there is anything I can do to help out, let me know. > > > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
