Tech: Connecting user name and P/W to Yahoo

Subject: Tech: Connecting user name and P/W to Yahoo
From: GUEST,Uncle_DaveO
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 03:53 PM

After various comp troubles, offline for some time, and reinstall, I'm unable to access my Yahoo email via Firefox/Thunderbird or Seamonkey, which worked fine before the troubles.

I am able to access my email via IE (which I loathe).

Googling Seamonkey, I gathered that Yahoo has changed their setup to make access to their POP accounts hard for other browsers. I've downloaded YPOP, which is supposed to emulate the Yahoo setup, but I still get "Sending of Password" (or was it user/password?) "did not succeed. Mail Server POP.ATT.YAHOO.COM responded: invalid user/password".

Can some computer maven here help me? I'm sick and tired of Yahoo's miserable email facility.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Tech: Connecting user name and P/W to Yahoo
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 05:09 PM

I'd be happy to send you an invite to join google mail aka gmail, Dave, but you'd have to PM me a working addy.

Have you checked your settings in FireFox under Tools - Options? I had some kind of problem like that with Yahoo, too, about a year ago, I think it was. Can't remember what I did, except I think I had to set it to accept all cookies, then erased them all after each session. Eventually it understood I'd accept cookies from only certain sites to which I added Yahoo and it sorted itself out. Sorry that's probably not much help.:-)

Subject: RE: Tech: Connecting user name and P/W to Yahoo
From: Nick
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 08:02 PM

There is a setting in IE in Advanced called - "Enable Third Party browser extensions" without which IE fails to do similar things. Perhaps there is a similar setting in Firefox?