[sylpheed:36973] Re: Yahoo since 20 of October 2020 and Sylpheed

[Gene Goldenfeld]

There is some ambiguity in the use of the term “app,” but it still seems to apply largely to mobile (vs. desktop) programs/devices. With Yahoo, when I followed the third-party instructions, it didn’t recognize Mailwasher on the desktop as applicable. Since it now costs to ask Yahoo support a question that gets answered, we’ll just have to wait until October 20 to see.  

Gene

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On Sun, Oct 4, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Javier wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 10:57:52 -0600
> Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > While I'm not looking at your computer set up, I'm still using POP3
> > with Yahoo; only Mailwasher, i.e., a third party program, had to be
> > changed to IMAP. Have you tried changing the Yahoo account to IMAP
> > in Sylpheed and leaving OAUTH out of it?
> >
> > Gene
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not saying Yahoo can't be checked nowadays through POP3 or IMAP,
> that I do, with both protocols, to date, without problems, but what
> will happen on October 20th.
> 
> In case the app password becomes per-session, using Sylpheed wouldn't
> worth, in my case, when I had to generate loads of app-passwords, what
> is dumb as it would be the same as check the webmail, as you have
> to login to Yahoo's account site; and with Sylpheed there isn't an
> option to use Oauth, that is one of the other options.
> 
> Regards.
>