[Users] Unable to login to Yahoo Mail Account

Chris Schrauben chrisretusn at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 13:37:32 UTC 2021


I have three Yahoo Mail accounts. One is IMAP, two are POP3.

The IMAP account and one POP3 account work, no issues. 

The one account that fails shows this in the Network Log.

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* Account 'Yahoo': Connecting to POP3 server: pop.mail.yahoo.com:995...
[2021-01-30 21:11:32] POP< +OK Hello from jpop-0.1
[2021-01-30 21:11:32] POP> USER redacted at yahoo.com
[2021-01-30 21:11:32] POP< +OK Password required.
[2021-01-30 21:11:32] POP> PASS ********
** Session timed out. You may be able to recover by increasing the
timeout value in Preferences/Other/Miscellaneous.
===
The Claws Mail setups for the two POP3 accounts are identical. 

I have tried clearing and reentering the password, even went as for to
change my password with Yahoo. I can login via the Web and via the
Yahoo App for this account.

I decided to see if I could send via this account. This is the result.

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* Account 'Yahoo': Connecting to SMTP server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465...
[2021-01-30 21:32:45] SMTP< 220 smtp.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP ready
[2021-01-30 21:32:45] ESMTP> EHLO racermach.home.lan
[2021-01-30 21:32:45] ESMTP< 250-smtp411.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Hello
redacted.redacted.redacted [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx])
[2021-01-30 21:32:45] ESMTP< 250-PIPELINING
[2021-01-30 21:32:45] ESMTP< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
[2021-01-30 21:32:45] ESMTP< 250-8BITMIME
[2021-01-30 21:32:45] ESMTP< 250-SIZE 41697280
[2021-01-30 21:32:45] ESMTP< 250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN XOAUTH2 OAUTHBEARER
[2021-01-30 21:32:45] ESMTP> AUTH LOGIN
[2021-01-30 21:32:46] ESMTP< 334 redacted
[2021-01-30 21:32:46] ESMTP> [USERID]
[2021-01-30 21:32:46] ESMTP< 334 redacted
[2021-01-30 21:32:46] ESMTP> [PASSWORD]
[2021-01-30 21:32:46] ESMTP< 535 5.7.0 (#AUTH005) Too many bad auth
attempts.
** error occurred on authentication
*** Authentication failed:
535 5.7.0 (#AUTH005) Too many bad auth attempts.
===

I am baffled about this one. I am up for suggestions. Thanks. 

Chris


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