I see now, not having experience of it myself, I wasn't sure what was happening. So what you would want is that when Thunderbird + extension checks a Yahoo email account and encounters a captcha pop up, or indeed any other occurrence that prevents it completing the task, some sort of time out would occur and it would quietly stop trying to access that account and carry on to the next. While Yahoo may not like us accessing our email other than through the web site, I doubt that there is a large enough number of people using webmail extensions compared to the total number of Yahoo users to make it worth their while to deliberately break the extensions. On the other hand they've got no reason to care whether or not we can access our mail through Thunderbird. From their point of view if something they do to address another problem (such as spam), prevents us getting our mail through Thunderbird, that's a bonus for them, and they certainly won't be interested in fixing the problem. Maybe you could ask Yahoo why you get the captcha so often? Tell them you use a standard web browser and it's coming up so often as to be a real nuisance.
Jeff wrote: > The issue is *not* that it is popping up. That is part of it. While it > would be nice to reduce that occurrence, the issue is that *while it > is popped up* Thunderbird refuses to do anything else. If I get a > Yahoo captcha on account "A", Account "B" is *not* getting checked > until that popup is resolved, and as an extension to that, the filters > and sorting that should be applied to "B" do not occur, either. > > Incidentally, what is the plugin doing that makes Yahoo think it needs > a captcha? I would think that you would only get a captcha when you > are sending stuff -- for the life of me, I cannot guess what spam it > prevents to provide a captcha to *check* email.... > > On May 4, 12:43 pm, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
