On 8/25/20 4:23 PM, David H. Durgee wrote:
WaltS48 wrote:
On 8/25/20 12:45 PM, David H. Durgee wrote:
I received the following rather problematic email from Yahoo this
morning:
Hey David,
We love that you love using your Yahoo Mail. And we want to make sure
you always have the best experience. That’s why we’re reaching out
today.
We’ve noticed that you’re using non-Yahoo applications (such as
third-party email, calendar, or contact applications) that may use a
less secure sign-in method. To protect you and your data, Yahoo will
no longer support the current sign-in functionality in your
application starting on October 20, 2020. This means that you will
need to take one of the steps below to continue using Yahoo Mail
without interruption.
But don’t worry, you have options. Find an option that works best for
you below:
Option 1: We recommend that you access your email using our free
Yahoo Mail app for iOS and Android or simply go to mail.yahoo.com to
access Yahoo Mail on the web.
Option 2: Keep your current, non-Yahoo app, BUT follow a few steps to
get it to sync with our secure sign-in method. The steps vary across
different email applications, but in most cases, you will have to
remove your Yahoo account from the app and then add it back again to
update the sign-in security. Use the links below to follow the
specific steps for your current application:
iOS Mail
Gmail
Samsung Mail
Others
Option 3: You can generate a one-time, unique password that will
allow you to sign in to your account using your non-Yahoo email
application. Once created, this password will continue to allow your
app to securely sync your Yahoo email unless you sign out (or are
signed out) from your app. You can find instructions on how to do
this here.
If you want more details on these changes, please visit our help
page. If you’ve already taken action, we’d like to think you haven’t
read this far, but if you have . . . we sure appreciate the diligence!
Thanks for rocking that Yahoo Mail address!
Yours in your inbox,
The Yahoo Team
I followed that others link and found some instructions for Thunderbird
that involve deleting my current account and creating a new one. I have
no intention of deleting my current account, I simply want to change my
server settings to conform with their new "more secure" requirements.
Has anyone else received this notice and made the required changes so
that you can tell me how to fix this mess they are insisting on?
Dave
I think Option 3 is the best choice.
I received the same email from AOL, had the account for decades but it
isn't a heavily used account and I recently added it as an IMAP account
to my Thunderbird's. I may try it with that account.
My problem with option 3 is the phrase "one-time" and "unless you sign
out" which imply to me the need to go through this rigamarole every time
I need to restart SeaMonkey. That is a non-starter for me when the POP3
constipated email issue sometimes means multiple restarts in a day. If
all they want to do is generate me a new password once then fine, but
NOT every time I restart SeaMonkey.
Dave
Do you sign out of the email account when shutting down SeaMonkey?
Then you probably will need to go through the rigamarole every time.
I haven't decided yet whether or not I'm going to keep my AOL account in
Thunderbird. I only added it to see what the process involved.
Could be why I removed it from two of my Thunderbird's. It should have
been just checking the account for mail, but kept getting prompted to
sign-in.
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