You were right Chris and thanks for the heads up on that one. Much appreciated as I can now access my mail again. Many thanks again.
On Jan 18, 10:21 pm, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > That you must doesn't read quite as I intended. What I meant to say is > that you must use the New Yahoo Mail. > > On 18/01/2011 20:58, Chris Clifton wrote: > > > > > You must be using the "New Yahoo Mail" on the website, the extension > > doesn't support "Classic Yahoo Mail". This is a common cause of failure. > > > On 18/01/2011 20:39, DonQuai wrote: > >> 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. > >>> -- > > --
