Hello and thank you for contributing.
I have a POP setup on Thunderbird and followed the supplied instructions from Yahoo about how to configure incoming/outgoing servers for POP. This DID NOT WORK.
I am very reluctant to first set up as IMAP, as I have years of emails that I access regularly and it would be catastrophic to lose them. Any suggestions on how to set up without losing my email stash?
Hi Sadean. You bring up a good point about possibly loosing emails. From everything I've read on the internet, the settings for POP should be "pop.mail.yahoo.com" and port 995. Everything else stays the same as in my above post. I have not personally tried this, but as long as you enter it as POP and not IMAP you have nothing to lose by trying it. Please report back, it may help someone else.
Nosed around, and apparently I needed a one-time password at Yahoo to use when signing on to Thunderbird for the first time. Here are the instructions for that.
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/generate-third-party-passwords-sln15241.html
It worked for me :)
So I started on migrating to Yahoo using Thunderbird mail client. Two Cox users each with multiple Cox email accounts. Migrated a single account for each user yesterday. Attempting to migrate additional Cox email accounts for each user today.....able to send from one Cox email account for each user. Cannot send from second or third accounts for each user. Appears to me that failure is occurring when Yahoo special client password is not being recognized by the Yahoo smtp server. Have reached point of confusion overload. Any suggestions? By the way......I am using normal password setting.....why are you using OAuth2?
