Thank you for the detailed and easy instructions on this conversion to Yahoo and Thunderbird!! Your process seems easy and when it is my time I hope it goes as well...I have only received one email from Cox as yet. I was wondering if you could TEST this process with one of the several email accounts I have with Cox when I am notified by Cox to do so but NOT the original main email account? Another reply to this solution said they did the MAIN account and ALL the accounts went over to Yahoo.
Another question is--can you use the SAME password for Yahoo when you are asked to create a new password? Just would be so much easier.
Thank you for any help you can give to make this transition to easier that the horror stories I have read about.
Hi OldBob2. I had exactly the same thought as you and picked the address I was most able to live without if things went to the bad. Unfortunately, when you move one email address to Yahoo the rest will also automatically move. At that point the only access to your emails will be via the Yahoo webmail until you can get your email client, in this case Thunderbird, communicating with Yahoo. If you open TB right after setting up your Yahoo account, you will find that no emails exist there anymore. When you set up your account in Yahoo you will be required to use a password that is different from the Cox password.
Thx Waleee..I was afraid if you move ANY they all go..bummer. So I guess as long as I enter a different password in Yahoo I should be OK..and change the in/out settings in TB with the new Yahoo password I hopefully should be ok..Last time I tried to use the Authentication method: OAuth2, Thunderbird did not like it for my IMAP but hopefully that has been resolved. Hope I dont have to change too soon and many of these pitfalls will be worked out.
I think that would depend on how "strong" your original password is. I tried the same password and Yahoo said it wasn't strong enough, so I had to come up with another. Two special characters, numbers and capital letters and 16 characters total for Yahoo to decide if it was strong enough.
