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I cannot receive e-mails, Everything is correct.

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I am using windows 8.1 upgraded a week ago from windows 8. Thunderbird vers. 38.2.0, everything was working fine. When I downloaded my emails a week ago the following message showed ( Downloading 1-12), then it stopped the green bar flashed on and off, and I could not longer receive e-mails - Though I could send emails without any problems. I have been in contact with the ISP and everything is ok there, I recreated my account on another machine and I am receiving e-mails there without a glitch using Thunderbird. I have tried everything - I am using AVAST anti-virus, and Uninstalled that tested and reinstalled , nothing works. I then deleted the email address in Thunderbird and now it will not allow me to recreate the address. Error is Verification username or password incorrect. However I have set different passwords, usernames, POP3 etc. is all correct - all this has been checked by the ISP and confirmed correct. I have now downloaded and installed Outlook and it works. I do not like Outlook at all! and wish to stay with Thunderbird, any help in resolving this problem would be greatly appreciated!!! Franz

I am using windows 8.1 upgraded a week ago from windows 8. Thunderbird vers. 38.2.0, everything was working fine. When I downloaded my emails a week ago the following message showed ( Downloading 1-12), then it stopped the green bar flashed on and off, and I could not longer receive e-mails - Though I could send emails without any problems. I have been in contact with the ISP and everything is ok there, I recreated my account on another machine and I am receiving e-mails there without a glitch using Thunderbird. I have tried everything - I am using AVAST anti-virus, and Uninstalled that tested and reinstalled , nothing works. I then deleted the email address in Thunderbird and now it will not allow me to recreate the address. Error is Verification username or password incorrect. However I have set different passwords, usernames, POP3 etc. is all correct - all this has been checked by the ISP and confirmed correct. I have now downloaded and installed Outlook and it works. I do not like Outlook at all! and wish to stay with Thunderbird, any help in resolving this problem would be greatly appreciated!!! Franz

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It is recognized that the Yahoo service is flaky, with odd errors, timeouts. Weird messages, re-indexing that sees entire mail boxes re-downloaded.

Basically Yahoo do not care about mail clients. There is no advertising to be sold using one. They make random undocumented and non RFC standards changes to their service and leave it to the users to work out how it functions.

I would suggest you file support ticked with Yahoo. But I have never received a response from them. Ever. Not even when their spam filter made all mail from a mail clients spam. I have no doubt they had the answers to that one. Because it just started working again a week or so latter.

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I am having the same problem after updating from 38.1 to 38.2.

I put a bug report in, but they say its not a bug.

Obviously it is.

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It would help more if you posted the Thunderbird info instead of Firefox.

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Sorry i was using wrong machine will post Thunderbird Troubleshooting information from correct machine Franz

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This is the correct Thunderbird Franz

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   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0
   Profile Folder: Show Folder
             (Local drive)
   Application Build ID: 20150813074416
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory
 Mail and News Accounts
   account2:
     INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
   account5:
     INCOMING: account5, , (imap) imap.gmail.com:993, SSL, OAuth2
     OUTGOING: smtp.gmail.com:465, SSL, OAuth2, true
   account8:
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The e-mail address for account no 2 should be franz@absoluteskin.co.za, ISP mail6.bigcommerce.com, POP3, port 995, normal pass word. It is working on my other machine with windows 7. Thunderbird has not been updated to 38.2 on that machine. I cannot even create this e-mail address at all anymore. Just get verification error, username or password incorrect. but have tried the whole week and cannot create, I have also tried to create and email address tammi@absoluteskin.co.za did manage to create it a week ago but not any more and have since deleted it. Regards Franz

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Incidently you will see gmail accounts, I can create gmail accounts without a problem. and I am using these to forward emails from Bigcommerce to me. Bigcommerce have checked from there side and done numerous tests, and say they no issues from there side and the emails should be working are working! Regards Franz

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To diagnose problems with Thunderbird, try one of the following:

  • Restart Thunderbird with add-ons disabled (Thunderbird Safe Mode). On the Help menu, click on "Restart with Add-ons Disabled". If Thunderbird works like normal, there is an Add-on or Theme interfering with normal operations. You will need to re-enable add-ons one at a time until you locate the offender.
  • Restart the operating system in safe mode with Networking. This loads only the very basics needed to start your computer while enabling an Internet connection. Click on your operating system for instructions on how to start in safe mode: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, OSX
If safe mode for the operating system fixes the issue, there's other software in your computer that's causing problems. Possibilities include but not limited to: AV scanning, virus/malware, background downloads such as program updates.
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Thanks Matt will try these options later today.

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I have a similar problem. I'm using Windows 8.1 and updated my Thunderbird to version 38.2, correctly configured with 3 different account. At that point (a couple of days ago) one of them (the Yahoo one) stopped working. The only change in my pc configuration is Thunderbird. However, I tried the two solutions above, and it still not working. I doublechecked the server configuration (that I didn't change) and they seem correct. Finally, I tried to delete the account and recreate it, but nothing changed. Ah, obviously I can open the Yahoo webmail, thus the server is working and the password is correct.

Could somebody help me? Thanks

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The solution I came up with is going back to the previous version. As none of the fixes they listed worked for me.

I turned off auto updates and I am waiting for the next version to see if this fixes it.

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Thank you *very* much. This is not a real solution (note that I absolutely not criticize you!), but I adopted it too. Do you known if it is a recognized problem?

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I did put in a bug report. I had a few replies trying to fix the problem but its been a month since I have heard from them.

So I assume based on the lack of support they don't care.

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It is recognized that the Yahoo service is flaky, with odd errors, timeouts. Weird messages, re-indexing that sees entire mail boxes re-downloaded.

Basically Yahoo do not care about mail clients. There is no advertising to be sold using one. They make random undocumented and non RFC standards changes to their service and leave it to the users to work out how it functions.

I would suggest you file support ticked with Yahoo. But I have never received a response from them. Ever. Not even when their spam filter made all mail from a mail clients spam. I have no doubt they had the answers to that one. Because it just started working again a week or so latter.