Once in awhile, if there's a error in TB, I log-in to my free yahoo
email account from the Yahoo.com website, because yahoo is special, and
the Webmail add-on usually, works again.
/
Please note, since there's *_no_* POP access for FREE U.S.A. Yahoo email
accounts, there's a work-around solution/ besides using the Webmail
add-on, which is a tip that I read from Eugene;
/
"Have you tried just setting the language, site and time zone to one
that you can pop. Here in the Southeast USA, I can use the Canadian site
with the Central time zone even though I am in Alabama, USA. This is
fine when I not behind a corporate firewall where I need the Webmail
add-ons to get my mail."/
One caveat I found to the tip is once you change the language setting
and activate pop from the email settings, TB may download all read &
unread emails requiring you to remove all email dups within TB. Another
tip is, once I log-out of the yahoo web session, I log back in to change
the language back to English (USA) and log-out, and POP still works
although it will no longer be in the Yahoo web session email settings.
Reason I do that is because I still use Yahoo web sessions and did not
want Canada as my default, there might be another way to change that,
but for me this works fine.
*A working configuration on my WinXP SP3 system: (using Webmail add-on)*
Thunderbird 6
WebMail 1.4.3
WebMail-Yahoo 1.5.3
Server Type: POP Mail Server
Server Name: 127.0.0.1
Port: 110 (1026 or higher if using linux)
User Name: [email protected]
Connection security: None
Authentication method: Password, transmitted insecurely
*Outgoing Server (SMTP) Settings (not using Webmail add-on, nor the
language change)*
Server Name: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Port: 465
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: Normal password
User Name: [email protected]
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On 8/28/2011 11:49 PM, SteveH_66 wrote:
Thanks Eugene, but I made sure that the username at the bottom
included the domain name. When I had TB 6 installed, a couple of
times I was able to create an account, but I got negative vibes
alternating with cool as the response whenever I tried to log into my
email account and it was refused.
On Aug 28, 9:25 pm, KE4AVB<[email protected]> wrote:
The only thing I can think is that the username at the bottom of account
creation screen needs to be username@domain. (webmail requirement)
example: [email protected]
When I tried creating an account without the domain part I was able to
duplicate your problem here on my win2000 system.
Eugene
