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THANK YOU! Choosing "OAuth2" from the drop down list was the key!
Here are some things I WISH I knew doing this whole messy thing, hopefully it will help others:
(I also have a question at the end, please help!)
- If you aren't getting e-mail in Thunderbird anymore, that means Cox has now moved that acct to Yahoo. They do NOT transfer all of your e-mail accounts at once! Some took days more. Every time I tried setting up certain accounts, yahoo said "We don't recognize that name" (or account, whatever it said). I kept thinking I was doing something wrong, but it's just that they haven't transferred that account yet. I'm not 100% sure about this, but it seems like the whole transfer process started when I initiated the move, then it kicked all of the accounts into gear.
- I am worried that my Contacts haven't transferred yet, not on any of my 6 accounts. I was told by Yahoo on the phone that it could take 1-2 weeks (no comment).
- Also, if you successfully connect Yahoo to forward mail to Thunderbird, you will get a pop up and prompt to give permission for yahoo to forward the mail to Thunderbird. THIS will be your sign you did it correctly!
- I hope someone has an answer for this: Yahoo deletes your emails after some time, unless you go through the annoying task of moving them to some folder and even then I'm not convinced by my research yet that yahoo EVER keeps your e-mails until YOU delete them (?) Now that I got Thunderbird to work, will Thunderbird keep the mails forever like it always has??-- Anybody know?
I have always used local storage and local backups for emails, contacts, etc. Of course I could have a drive go bad and I would only have myself to blame if I didn't have a backup.
Once you set up Tbird to use POP (as opposed to IMAP), all emails pulled from the POP server are removed from that server and only exist locally on your PC. There may be some delay before they are actually deleted from the server. There is an option in Tbird account settings to "leave mail on server". This is handy when you have two devices for fetching mail but don't want the secondary device to delete any.
Tbird will keep your emails indefinitely except maybe the trash or spam folder. Once you start storing your emails in Tbird, you will want to use Tools->Export at least once a year to create a backup.
- gidgey8 months agoNew Contributor II
A few newbie questions, please..
- So if I use IMAP, yahoo will delete my mails in the 7 days or whatever they said, correct?
- If I use POP, I won't be able to use my cell phone to retrieve mails from yahoo?
- What is the input for the POP setting, please. (IMAP is imap.mail.yahoo.com, what is the POP setting?). *I see it, it's POP.MAIL.YAHOO.COM*
- Tcox8 months agoNew Contributor II
I don't use IMAP, so don't know the deletion policy. I also have not played with the yahoo email enough to be sure of how it will behave.
Typically you can set up any number of devices with POP settings, but the first device to read an email might remove that email from the server. If so other devices that later check your inbox will not see that email. If that happens and you don't want it to, there is an email setting in Tbird or your phone to "leave email on server", in which case you get a copy of the email but it also remains on the server so your other devices can read it as well.
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