This is a great thread. Thanks to all. My question is similar.
Windows 11 - As a Cox.net email user, I had a Cox master email account and five subaccounts. They have all transitioned to Yahoo. I also have a Gmail account. I can send and receive between each of my Yahoo accounts and the Gmail account, so it seems the setups on Yahoo are good.
My next step is to set up the six Yahoo accounts on Thunderbird 115.11.0. The problem I am having is that Thunderbird wants me to supply the password for the Yahoo pop and smtp servers. I know what the passwords were for the Cox servers, but I don't know them for the Yahoo servers. The Yahoo account password does not work, nor does the first part of my email address. Since the accounts work properly on Yahoo, the server passwords must exist somewhere in the Yahoo account information, but I can't find them. Any thoughts on where they can be found would be welcome.
I would prefer to keep the accounts as POP (port 995) rather than IMAP (port 993) unless there is some reason to change. Is the use of the mysterious OAuth parameter the secret?
Bill
Hi, Bill. With Thunderbird, you may want to have Yahoo generate an "app password" Here are instructions for you: Substitute "Thunderbird" for "Outlook" in the instructions. https://forums.cox.com/discussions/apps/how-to-use-cox-e-mail-transitioned-to-yahoo-via-outlook-/152689
Looks simple enough, though annoying and non-intuitive. Thanks for following up. Is the idea that this would be done INSTEAD OF the OAuth thingy, or IN ADDITION TO it? What security settings need to be specified in Thunderbird? "Normal password", etc.
The password provided by the Yahoo procedure will become the password.
