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Cannot connect to Yahoo mail to receive IMAP or send SMTP mail.

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Suddenly neither my wife or I can use Thunderbird to connect to the Yahoo IMAP and SMTP servers. Reentering and then changing the App Specific password does not work. I have gone to the Yahoo Mail Account Settings site and there is no toggle for turning insecure access on or off although it is supposed to be there. I get frequent messages from Yahoo that I should turn off insecure access by which I think they mean Thunderbird. Now It seems that they have turned it off unilaterally and I cannot turn it back on.

Oliver

Suddenly neither my wife or I can use Thunderbird to connect to the Yahoo IMAP and SMTP servers. Reentering and then changing the App Specific password does not work. I have gone to the Yahoo Mail Account Settings site and there is no toggle for turning insecure access on or off although it is supposed to be there. I get frequent messages from Yahoo that I should turn off insecure access by which I think they mean Thunderbird. Now It seems that they have turned it off unilaterally and I cannot turn it back on. Oliver

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Seikel778 said

Okay, the inability to retrieve/send email using Yahoo Mail has now been solved on two computers. But now on a third computer I get a notice saying that my Yahoo Mail account has rejected the log in attempt because "[CLIENTBUG] SELECT command is not valid in this state". What is that all about? On the third computer I can retrieve/send using my wife's profile, but when attempting it with my profile I get the above error message.

Does anyone know why this would happen for just 1 email? I have several Frontier/Yahoo email accounts, but I get this same error message for just the 1 account.

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From the dozens of Yahoo posts here Yahoo seems to have a problem or they changed something.

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I agree. There is supposed to be a toggle in the settings for Yahoo mail to turn blocking of insecure mail apps on/off, but the toggle is not there.

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Yahoo being Yahoo. I guess it is now Verizon/Yahoo/AOL and they are rolling it all into something called Oath.

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I also am now unable to login to Yahoo! Mail from Thunderbird.

This has just happened the last 2-3 days.

I tried restarting Thunderbird in safe mode (with all add-ons disabled) and re-checked relevant account and server settings, but none of this worked.

I have no problem logging in to my Yahoo! Mail directly, so the problem is between Thunderbird and Yahoo! Mail.

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Okay, the inability to retrieve/send email using Yahoo Mail has now been solved on two computers. But now on a third computer I get a notice saying that my Yahoo Mail account has rejected the log in attempt because "[CLIENTBUG] SELECT command is not valid in this state". What is that all about? On the third computer I can retrieve/send using my wife's profile, but when attempting it with my profile I get the above error message.

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This problem has been resolved for me as well, sometime in the past 12 hours.

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Seikel778 said

Okay, the inability to retrieve/send email using Yahoo Mail has now been solved on two computers. But now on a third computer I get a notice saying that my Yahoo Mail account has rejected the log in attempt because "[CLIENTBUG] SELECT command is not valid in this state". What is that all about? On the third computer I can retrieve/send using my wife's profile, but when attempting it with my profile I get the above error message.

Does anyone know why this would happen for just 1 email? I have several Frontier/Yahoo email accounts, but I get this same error message for just the 1 account.