Webmail extension hasn't been needed with gmail and hotmail for a long time. As to Yahoo's change of heart, bear in mind that in exchange for any free service these days users will give up that much more privacy (not that Yahoo offered much privacy on their pay-fer accounts to begin with). They're gonna get their money one way or another, pay-fer or (probably AND) data mining.
On Saturday, December 7, 2013 9:47:18 AM UTC-6, tagryn wrote: > > This doesn't directly address your problem, but...I started getting > negative vibes on my Yahoo account as well, and did some searching around. > > Its possible that we don't need to use the Webmail extension to get around > the restrictions to POP download mail from Yahoo anymore. See: > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Yahoo > > I disabled the extension for Yahoo in Thunderbird and switched the > settings to those detailed in that article, and was able to download email > from Yahoo to Thunderbird without a problem. Only thing to watch out for is > that it will download *all* email that's in your inbox, so if you've been > letting messages sit in there for months and months as I was, you could > have a lot of messages getting transferred the first time. > > This may also be the case for Hotmail (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Hotmail) > and GMail (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Gmail) > > Hope that's helpful. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
