Hi Chris and Alan (and others who have taken the time to help me),

Some welcome progress. I removed my yahoo account in Mozilla and created 
a new account using the New Account Setup dialogue with a Webmail option.

For the first time, I am now receiving a password prompt when I attempt 
to log on to my account on yahoo using Thunderbird. However, I receive 
the following error message:

"Sending the username did not succeed. Mail server 127.0.0.1 responded: 
yahoo.com is an unsupported domain."

but when I change the name of the server to Localhost, I receive the 
following error message:

"Sending the username did not succeed. Mail server Localhost responded: 
yahoo.com is an unsupported domain."

I appreciate your continuing assistance.

Here are my settings:
Account name     [email protected]
Email address    [email protected]

Server settings
Server name                                Localhost
User name                                    [email protected]
Leave messages on server    Until I delete them

Outgoing server settings    Webmail - Localhost

Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

Thanks, Bill




Chris Clifton wrote:
> No problem at all Alan, I've just replied saying much the same. As far 
> as I'm aware Yahoo UK don't provide IMAP, I'd be surprised if the 
> Canadians had this service and us Brits didn't.
>
> alanrf wrote:
>   
>> I hope Chris will not mind me responding.
>>
>> POP3 is the correct setting - these extensions are providing you with
>> a simulated POP3 connection to the Yahoo server.
>>
>> The way you keep the mail on the server is to use the setting of
>> Thunderbird.  Select the Server Settings panel in Thunderbird for your
>> Yahoo account and then see the box "Leave messages on server" and the
>> sub-options of it.
>>
>> There may be IMAP support in Yahoo (though I do not believe there is -
>> is it not a user choice it must be deliberately provided by the
>> service with dedicated IMAP servers) but if there is you can bet it
>> has to be paid for.
>>
>> On Jul 18, 2:40 pm, William Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi Chris, Thanks for staying with me on this.
>>>
>>> The dialogue you mention concludes with a POP configuration. I want the
>>> received messages to stay on the yahoo server.
>>>
>>> Here is what I did:
>>>
>>> I removed the old account from the Account Settings.I chose Add Account, Web
>>> mail.
>>>
>>> I entered my name, William Klein and my email address,
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>> I chose billy589klein as my Incoming user name.
>>>
>>> The Account Wizard said Congratulations!
>>> Account name Web mail - billy589klein
>>> Email address       [email protected]
>>> Incoming user name  billy589klein
>>> Incoming server type POP3
>>> Outgoing User name william.klein
>>> Outgoing server name (SMTP)  localhost
>>>
>>> Because POP3 is not acceptable, I chose cancel.
>>>
>>> Please tell me how to change POP to IMAP or some other parameter that will
>>> force the yahoo server to retain my received message. Thanks, Bill
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:17 PM, spruce18b <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> I am using Thunderbrid 2.0.0.22.
>>>> I have installed WebMail 1.3.2. Servers for POP, IMAP and SMTP are
>>>> running.
>>>> I have installed Webmail Yahoo 1.4.4. Its options say "No Yahoo
>>>> accounts found"
>>>>       
>>>> Here are my Mozilla settings:
>>>>       
>>>> Account settings
>>>> Account name: [email protected]
>>>> Email address: [email protected]
>>>>       
>>>> Server settings
>>>> Server type: IMAP mail server
>>>> Server name: smtp.yahoo.ca
>>>> User name: [email protected]
>>>> User secure connection: TLS, if available
>>>>       
>>>> Outgoing server (SMTP) settings
>>>> University of Toronto - smtp.utoronto.ca
>>>> my.name -smtp1.sympatico.ca (Default)
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>   
>>     
>
>   


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