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Can't receive emails with POP yahoo server, can't reconfigure to IMAP

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Hi, I haven't been able to download my emails for months from my pop.att.yahoo.com account. I enter my password and Thunderbird thinks for a few minutes before I get the error "Sending of password for user did not succeed. Mail server pop.att.yahoo.com responded: Server error - Please try again later." It's been this way for months, I just updated to the newest version and it still doesn't download

Hi, I haven't been able to download my emails for months from my pop.att.yahoo.com account. I enter my password and Thunderbird thinks for a few minutes before I get the error "Sending of password for user did not succeed. Mail server pop.att.yahoo.com responded: Server error - Please try again later." It's been this way for months, I just updated to the newest version and it still doesn't download

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AT&T requires secure mail keys to be used instead of account passwords in TB. Create a key at AT&T, remove the passwords from Saved Passwords in TB Preferences, restart TB, enter the key when prompted.

https://www.att.com/support/article/dsl-high-speed/KM1010523/

If you switch from POP to IMAP, the account has to be added again as an IMAP account:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Convert_a_POP_account_to_a_IMAP_account

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Odabrano rješenje

AT&T requires secure mail keys to be used instead of account passwords in TB. Create a key at AT&T, remove the passwords from Saved Passwords in TB Preferences, restart TB, enter the key when prompted.

https://www.att.com/support/article/dsl-high-speed/KM1010523/

If you switch from POP to IMAP, the account has to be added again as an IMAP account:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Convert_a_POP_account_to_a_IMAP_account

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Wow, thank you, I'm amazed!! I had never been notified of this change and it's not spelled out anywhere by AT&T or Thunderbird. Really appreciate the help!!