Thunderbird and yahoo sending problems

Freebyman

Hi, Im using Mozilla Thunderbird to received emails, which works great but when I try to send one it comes with an error saying connection to SMTP server smtp.yahoo.co.uk failed, it may be unavailable or refusing SMTP conections. Then its asking me to check my SMTP connections. They currently are smtp.yahoo.co.uk, port 25 and my user name is entered as well. Can anyone tell me what is wrong? Also does anyone know how to set a junk filter as well, all my junk went straight to it before I had this pc repaired, Im unable to set the junk folder again. Sorry for so many questions!!!

drunkenmonkey

Yahoo require specific settings on thunderbird, outlook etc these are:

pop - pop.mail.yahoo.com
smtp - smtp.mail.yahoo.com (i assume yours will work as well but thats what I use)

pop - ssl encryption - port 993
smtp - ssl encryption - port 465 - outgoing server requires authentication using same username and password as pop

I don't have specific step by step insructions for thunderbird only got what I have in outlook but you should be able to find it all!

Freebyman

Sorry not working for me at all. Any other suggestions?

drunkenmonkey

You need to pay yahoo to get pop mail access, I assume you've done this?

espresso

drunkenmonkey wrote: »

You need to pay yahoo to get pop mail access, I assume you've done this?

No you don't.

:rolleyes:

Freebyman

Your ISP may not allow you to connect to the yahoo SMTP server so try using the SMTP of your ISP.

Freebyman

Thanks espresso, did that and it works perfectly!!! :T

hannoja

I can't seem to get Thunderbird to work with more than one Yahoo! email addresses. Does anyone know if you can/how to do this?

Thanks.

espresso

hannoja wrote: »

I can't seem to get Thunderbird to work with more than one Yahoo! email addresses. Does anyone know if you can/how to do this?

Thanks.

Add an account for each of the different e-mail addresses.

hannoja

I have. When I go to check the email of the first one I created, it asks for my password then downloads the mail, as you'd expect. The others however, just respond:

"Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server pop.mail.yahoo.com responded invalid user/password"

espresso

hannoja wrote: »

I have. When I go to check the email of the first one I created, it asks for my password then downloads the mail, as you'd expect.

Not what I would expect! You should not have to enter your password each time, that is what an e-mail client does for you.

The others however, just respond:

"Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server pop.mail.yahoo.com responded invalid user/password"

Are these other accounts enabled for POP3 access?

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hannoja

espresso wrote: »

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I prefer not to have my PC remembering passwords for me, so I'm used to having to enter passwords everywhere.

I'd just thought of checking things from the Yahoo! end and was about to have a look when I read your post. That's exactly what the problem was: I'd forgotten to enable it in Yahoo! :doh:

Thanks for the speedy help.



I've noticed conflicting info. re. using Yahoo! with Thunderbird since I got Thunderbird, and I think I've realised why.. I've seen people state that you must upgrade to Yahoo!Mail Pluys/pay to be able to access it on clients such as Thunderbird, and I've also seen that you need a little tool called 'Ypops!'. I have a .com Yahoo! email address which I can't get to work in Thunderbird, and I believe that you can access free Yahoo! email via Thunderrbird if you have a .co.uk email (or possibly another extension other than .com), but that if you have a free .com Yahoo! email you need to upgrade. I'm not sure where Ypops comes in.. it's just been updated by it's writer though, so it's obviously still popular.

/waffle