Apparently the Yahoo staff don't know about it though, as they literally said it's impossible without me giving them my phone number. :P
Hi all,
I just wanted to see if anyone can confirm that connecting to Yahoo Mail is only possible by enabling "Allow apps that use less secure sign-in" in the Yahoo Account Settings?
It seems daft, but... :S
Regards,
Psider
[quote user="Psider"] I just wanted to see if anyone can confirm that connecting to Yahoo Mail is only possible by enabling "Allow apps that use less secure sign-in" in the Yahoo Account Settings?[/quote]
Here's a post about a similar GMAIL (Google) issue, IOW: It's a known one that obviously doesn't only apply to YAHOO.
Michael -- IERenderer's Homepage PGP Key ID (RSA 2048): 0xC45D831B S/MIME Fingerprint: 94C6B471 0C623088 A5B27701 742B8666 3B7E657C
Based on my brief research it looks like Yahoo is the same as Gmail where you have two options.
1. Allow less secure apps and not use two factor authentication.
2. Use an application specific password (two factor authentication can be enabled). I have never done this but found this Yahoo specific Lifewire article: https://www.lifewire.com/manage-app-passwords-imap-pop-yahoo-1174448
Not sure if it's because I "didn't" upgrade to the new fancy Yahoo mail but I have not seen the problem on either POP/SMTP or IMAP for my yahoo accounts (UK) no other settings at yahoo
Thanks for the responses. I'll leave this open for a couple of days just to see if I get any useful information out of Yahoo.
(And I'm holding on to the Classic view for as long as possible because I just don't like the layout or colours of the new view. :S )
Huh, and I just stumbled on this Mozilla article discussing OAuth2, which makes some sense about why this is happening.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_Gmail_with_Thunderbird_and_Mozilla_Suite
You mentioned an "Allow apps that use less secure sign-in" option in your original post. That should(?) allow Pegasus Mail to connect without 2 factor authentication or an app password. It does with Gmail.
