[sylpheed:34754] Re: IMAP and Yahoo not working... sometimes

[James Freer]

On 26 August 2011 02:30,  <meresponde2001-sylpheed at yahoo.es> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to ask if you are having troubles when you use Yahoo IMAP service.
>
> The problems I'm having are (and I thought that was a Yahoo problem because it was happening with seamonkey mail client too, but, yesterday, started to work on seamonkey mail client (I tested and looks the problem is related to passwords parsing/sending)):
>
> 1.- passwords not accepted if white spaces or special characters. This only happens with Yahoo, no other mail services as, for example, Gmail.
>
> But... not ever, with some accounts with passwords including both type of characters in the password (white spaces and symbols/special chars) the IMAP connection works.
>
> I can't find why with some work, with others not.
>
> With this first case, the accounts not working with Sylpheed, works with other mail client.
>
>
> 2.- yahoo.co.jp started to serve through IMAP (and here is where I started to dig with other mail clients) and was working perfect from the first day, now, stopped working.
>
> But... it doesn't work through other mail clients either!!!
>
> I think with Yahoo.co.jp, something else is wrong, as, sometimes, the password isn't accepted via pop or even web access :/ but as I'm not sure if this could be related to Sylpheed too, I decided to ask you.
>
> But, I'm getting off topic, are you getting these problems with IMAP and yahoo services?
>
> Oh, also, it doesn't matter if the connection is through ssl or not. It fails the same way.
>
>
> Regards,
> Javier.

Yahoo publically does not offer imap. Like me you seem to have found
the following connections work but have to be manually entered iirc or
manually corrected with the auto configuration.
imap.yahoo.com:993
smtp.yahoo.com:465

I like you found that yahoo worked.... most of the time. I think they
provide the provision for phones but not for email. They only offer
pop and will deny that one can use imap. I would imagine that is
because of the bandwidth or something like that - the server has got
to be able to cope with the large downloading of headers whereas pop
is just a few although can be a large amount with much email usage.

I've been doing some testing over the last couple of weeks having
decided to give up on Firefox and Thunderbird. I found no faults
[using gmail, aol accounts [apart from yahoo which i've
mentioned]using imap with Thunderbird, Seamonkey, Sylpheed, Claws or
Alpine. I'm a 'user' as opposed to a technical guru... as such i hope
i've been of help. I can set them up and test but what goes on
underneath i can't comment on.

[snip]
> But... not ever, with some accounts with passwords including both type of characters in the password (white spaces and symbols/special chars) the IMAP connection works.

I wouldn't expect it to. passwords should be alpha-numeric only -
maybe i'm wrong on that but it doesn't seem a good idea to use spaces
and symbols.

james