Okay that at least got the yahoo extension to see my account. Now, however, I am getting the dreaded "Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server localhost responded: negative vibes from [email protected]" alert.
On Jan 18, 8:32 pm, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mail server pop.mail.yahoo.com responded: invalid user/password? > > If you're using pop.mail.yahoo.com, you're not using the extension. > You're trying to use Yahoo's POP server which is only available to > holders of "paid for" Yahoo accounts. > As Eugene says, your user name should be your full email address > (Thunderbird defaults to just putting the bit before the "@" in). > Server settings for the POP server should be; > Server name: localhost > Port number: 110 > Connection security: None (localhost is a virtual server running on your > computer a secure connection would be meaningless) > Authentication method: Password transmitted insecurely > > On 18/01/2011 19:02, KE4AVB wrote: > > > > > It probably that you need to enter your full email address as username > > on the server setting page of the yahoo account that you have setup. > > (ie. [email protected]) The webmail extension looks at this to > > decide which add-on to use. > > > One other note as of today I am receiving "The error, LaunchFFC-1, > > occurred when trying to connect to Yahoo! Mail". This a server error > > at Yahoo and they are working on it to get it fixed. It currently > > affecting two of my three accounts. At least they are my new accounts > > and are not in much use yet other than my testing phase here. > > > Eugene > > > On Jan 18, 12:24 pm, DonQuai<[email protected]> wrote: > >> After a major hard drive disaster (complete wipe) I installed Vista > >> Ultimate along with Thunderbird 3.1. I have managed to get both gmail > >> accounts working, one hotmail account working and both paid accounts > >> working. However, I have on free yahoo account that isn't working. I > >> installed the web mail extension first version 1.3.11b1 and then the > >> yahoo extension version 1.4.7. I then created the account in TB. The > >> yahoo extension says there is no account found and if I should attempt > >> to download I get the proverbial "Sending of password did not succeed. > >> Mail server pop.mail.yahoo.com responded: invalid user/password" > >> alert. > > --
