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Creating old account always gives "username or password invalid"

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I am trying to readd and old account that I successfully created in Thunderbird a year ago. I have rebuilt my PC and reinstalled Thunderbird. The user, email and password are all correct and valid. I have logged in successfully thru Yahoo. I have created a new profile , that didn't help. I have attempted to manually configure all the server settings. They are exactly as they exist in the ISP server that Outlook uses. What is causing this problem ??

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 Peter
I am trying to readd and old account that I successfully created in Thunderbird a year ago. I have rebuilt my PC and reinstalled Thunderbird. The user, email and password are all correct and valid. I have logged in successfully thru Yahoo. I have created a new profile , that didn't help. I have attempted to manually configure all the server settings. They are exactly as they exist in the ISP server that Outlook uses. What is causing this problem ?? Help, Peter

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What are your settings? For Yahoo, imap.mail.yahoo.com on 993 or pop.mail.yahoo.com on 995, smtp.mail.yahoo.com on 465. SSL/TLS security, authentication = OAuth2, User Name = email address. Cookies must be accepted in TB Preferences for OAuth2.

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For Yahoo: pop.mail.yahoo.com port:995 SSL:SSL/TLS Auth: Encrypted

smtp.mail.yahoo.com    port:465  SSL:SSL/TLS  Auth: Encrypted    

User Name:pkuka@rogers.com . Cookies , don't know not using OAuth2.

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