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Micronaut

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Registered: 2019-07-04

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What just happened to Thunderbird?

Sometime in the last few hours, as I checked email this morning, I have been locked out of all my Yahoo Mail accounts. Is this another one of those "configuration changes" that requires messing with server settings? Why wasn't there any notice, if so? Or has Yahoo gotten aggressive about forcing people to use their preferred access methods?

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

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Re: What just happened to Thunderbird?

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tux_99

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Registered: 2025-06-17

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Re: What just happened to Thunderbird?

Yahoo mail still works fine with Seamonkey, I just checked, so it doesn't seem that they have "gotten aggressive about forcing people to use their preferred access methods", it must be something with your setup or your account.

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Micronaut

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Re: What just happened to Thunderbird?

After the initial confusion I managed to regain access to the actual email accounts by re-entering credentials. But, the recovery account is still unavailable. When the problem first hit I wasn't reading carefully. Not sure if the error messages were the same for all accounts. But with this one Thunderbird is currently saying it cannot get a 'secure connection' and to inform the site owners. Looks like a CERTIFICATE error on a major email provider? Bizarre. Well, if only Yahoo had some sort of service contacts for real people...

But this is still baffling. Why would this occur only for certain accounts? The other two are working fine now. No inability to form a secure connection. Do they really host different accounts on different servers?

In any case, a mistake like that on major provider is really concerning.