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![]() ![]() ![]() This is confusing, and it would be great if one of these companies' help pages would explain the entire process in detail. So while AT&T/SBC Global/Currently/Yahoo may use the term "security key", Thunderbird only knows about "passwords". Outbound mail still uses my full email address, but uses the security key as a password. This is accomplished with my actual password. Thunderbird does not offer any alternatives to my full email address it sends that regardless.Īfter successful testing, what I am seeing is that inbound mail hiccups the first time, but if I retry I eventually get my email. I deleted my passwords in order to be prompted. THIS IS JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE.Ģ What are the CURRENT POP3 and SMTP server names and ports?ģ) How do I guarantee that the inbound and outbound user names/aliases/passwords will authenticate? My family moved most of our other email accounts a couple of years ago to a paid web-based email provider because of Yahoo's ridiculous lack of privacy and wanting to use our information in any way they see fit. I sincerely wish AT&T would terminate their relationship with Yahoo and find another way to handle mail. They are overcompensating for the two major security breaches I have experienced over the last 20 years, and have made POP3 inbound mail and SMTP outbound mail a real problem. I will be moving to another web-based email provider and dropping use of Thunderbird because Yahoo is such a problem. I can log in to my SBC Global web-based email (after being redirected from the Yahoo sign-in screen to ANOTHER sign-in screen for AT&T and re-entering my user id and password). ![]() What has changed in the last couple of days? That solved my outbound problems at that time, but now AT&T/SBC Global/Yahoo is confused again. I had to read online a couple of months ago to learn that the procedure for outbound mail had changed if using a third-party mail application, so I set up an alias and a separate password. Until two days ago it was working, and now either inbound or outbound fails due to an invalid password. I use Mozilla Thunderbird with a non-AT&T mail service. ![]()
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