[sylpheed:36966] Re: Yahoo since 20 of October 2020 and Sylpheed

[Gene Goldenfeld]

Javier,

Not clear if this is about a mobile device. On my Win 10 desktop, where
I use Mailwasher Pro as a filter, I had checked OAUTH for Yahoo, but
that failed last week, but IMAP does work.

I've used Fastmail out of Australia as a primary email provider for ten
years, instead of my ISP. It is excellent, allows a bunch of alternate
addresses and is not costly (~$35 USD/2 years). But I'm not sure how
that would solve the Yahoo issue, which I haven't taken on yet on my
iPad.

Gene


On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 17:39:34 +0200
Javier <sylfiger at gmx.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> it was just mentioned to the list a few weeks ago, but finally, for
> those who use it, Yahoo is telling that will switch to per app
> password.
> 
> Ok, that won't be a big deal, but in the notification they also said,
> even in help pages isn't said the same, that passwords will be
> temporary in a per session basis.
> 
> Or, in other words, from what I understand, every time we check mail,
> we will need a new app password.
> 
> For me that would be a madness and stop using Yahoo, as I have to
> manage several accounts and that will take about a couple of hours
> daily. Not kidding.
> 
> And here no one has said anything, but Sylpheed is not prepared for
> the alternative, that would be using Oauth one-time-password request.
> 
> Or maybe I'm the only one that misunderstands that "passwords per
> session" option.
> 
> By now, I already have created app passwords and they don't expire,
> but I don't know what would happen from 20 of October.
> 
> 
> For those who have received the notification mails, how do you
> understand it?
> 
> Will you change your provider?
> 
> What providers are out there that DON'T REQUEST A MOBILE PHONE
> NUMBER, have IMAP or POP access and it is... realiable?
> 
> There should be a service and/or option, if spammers signup a lot of
> accounts daily on some services.
> 
> I thought GMX would be an option, but after a long mailing they use
> several (misconfigured in my opinion) blacklists and it is almost
> impossible to reach the registration page as the servers just replies
> with an error page.
> 
> Regards.
>