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Email Client for Yahoo Email Issue
Hi,
I recently opened a Yahoo email account. I made a record of the email address, password, etc. for safe keeping. Also, I wrote down the settings (eg SSL, port 995, etc) I need to enter in an email client such as "Thunderbird". Note: I use "Agent" 7.2 for email. I have no problems sending or receiving emails via Yahoo email at Yahoo's web site. However, when I try to use "Agent" email client to download my email or send an email, I get a "Rejected your username and password (5.7.1 authentication failed)". Note: I installed Agent in one of my WinXP laptops to be used ONLY for Yahoo email. For "username", I entered my Yahoo email address. My other PC with Agent setup for my Verizon email, I used my verizon email address for "username". FYI: I have been using Agent 7.2 for about 5 years for my Verizon email. Does anyone know why I can not use Agent for my Yahoo email? Thank You in advance, John |
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Email Client for Yahoo Email Issue
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Note: I installed Agent in one of my WinXP laptops to be used ONLY for Yahoo email. For "username", I entered my Yahoo email address. My other PC with Agent setup for my Verizon email, I used my verizon email address for "username". FYI: I have been using Agent 7.2 for about 5 years for my Verizon email. Does anyone know why I can not use Agent for my Yahoo email? Thank You in advance, John At a guess, Yahoo require some form of encryption, which either is turned off in Agent or Agent can't do, whereas Yahoo allow your password to be sent in clear text. Several of the providers are moving in that direction. I believe gmail does expect it by default, though you can (so far) turn it off in the webmail interface somewhere. UPDATE: I logged into my email account at Yahoo's web site, selected "Account Information", Turned on, "Allow apps that use less secure sign in...". That "worked". Note: Since this email source (Yahoo) is less important than my "main" email source, "less secure" doesn't bother me. John |
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Email Client for Yahoo Email Issue
jaugustine wrote:
I logged into my email account at Yahoo's web site, selected "Account Information", Turned on, "Allow apps that use less secure sign in...". That "worked". Note: Since this email source (Yahoo) is less important than my "main" email source, "less secure" doesn't bother me. Any e-mail client that does not support OAUTH2 is considered insecure by Google (and other e-mail providers that were lemmings and followed Google). This is because Google got involved in OAUTH1 but ruined it in OAUTH2 (by making it easier but less secure than version 1 and also incompatible with version 1). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth#OAuth_2.0 OAUTH2 is not a protocol. It is a framework and why anyone implementing it may come up with their own proprietary protocol. OAUTH2 became not security protocol for your connection to their server but instead a means of identifying (aka fingerprinting) who is connecting to their server (i.e., authentication via identity verus authentication via credentials). It's not about securing you. It's about securing them. One of the primary authors involved in OAUTH1 left the OAUTH2 project because he was disgusted how Google mangled the spec for their own purposes. Here's a video of the main OAUTH editor, Eran Hammer, until Google got in the way. He apologizes in a video for the ****up that became OAUTH2 and why it sucks: https://vimeo.com/52882780 (gee, I wonder why this video isn't at Google's Youtube) Other e-mail providers embraced OAUTH1 or decided to naively follow Google and went to OAUTH2. That means you cannot use a local e-mail client unless it supports OAUTH2. If your client does not support OAUTH2, and as with G[oogle]Mail, you need to go into Yahoo's server-side settings in your account to disable the wrongly description option "allow insecure client". You need to configure your account to allow an "insecure" client connect using their insecure OAUTH2 protocol. |
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