I really like Thunderbird but the switch over to Yahoo.com from Cox.net has been a mess. I can receive emails OK but cannot send any. I tried all the various settings, including an app-specific password, but nothing seems to work. I accessed the Thunderbird site-nothing of any real help. I have been through all the Yahoo instructions again and again--zip.
The most common error message I get is: "An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: Request failed; Mailbox unavailable. Please verify that your email address is correct in your account settings and try again."
If anyone has a suggestion, I would be grateful.
Unlike before with Thunderbird where you could just create one Outgoing SMTP server setting and use it with all of your email accounts, I had to create a new SMTP server setting for each of the email addresses that were ported over to Yahoo. When you go into Account Settings, scroll all the way to the bottom and select "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" then click Add and make a new SMTP server setting for each email address now with Yahoo.
The settings need to be:
Description: any unique name you want
Server name: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Port: 465
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: OAuth2 Note: I seem to recall this option didn't show up until I saved the setting then went back into it.
User Name(you must put the full email address here now): whateveryouraccountnameis@cox.net
Then go into the Account Settings of each individual account and at the bottom select the associated SMTP server you create for that account.
Repeat for each email account ported to Yahoo.
Nevets--Interreting--I guess I did it different..as I changed the IMAP/smpt server for each of my emails, I guess it did so behind the scenes but I got them in. Yahoo is very very slow and with several email accounts, on myiPhone, I get timed out a lot. So Many Many little settings that I keep stumbling on that need to be changed in Yahoo..so so frustrating..but glad you are having success in this transition.
Thanks Nevets
I did as you suggested but I am still unable to send emails from the new account (or the older Cox account).
I discovered if you change the From address at the very top of the outgoing email message to yourname@cox.net things work fine. ie, customize From Address. I assume this is not the way things should regularly work and I probably have done something wrong in the settings but at least I have a way of sending emails for the moment without having to use the Yahoo Mail app.
Sending emails problem---- Got it finally. On account settings, while the account name should be yourname@yahoo.com, down below under Default Identity, email address is (actually remains) yourname@cox.net and I think the same is true for reply-to address. Once I changed that, I was able to send emails just fine. Somehow I assumed you had to replicate the yahoo.com address in those locations. Sigh, what a slog! Tomorrow, I need to attack my iphone and get that to talk to Yahoo; hopefully that won't be as awful as my desktop/Thunderbird struugle.
