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Stop password memory for Yahoo and Gmail

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spruce18b
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I have been a regular user of Thunderbird for fifteen years. Every morning I enter passwords on Thunderbird for email on Webmail, Yahoo, Sympatico, Bell Canada and Gmail.

This routine has been disrupted after I upgraded Thunderbird to version 78.4.0 (32-bit).

I find now that my passwords are no longer required for Yahoo and Gmail. I have several times removed the remembered passwords in the Thunderbird Options>Privacy & Security dialogue for those two providers but the password memory persists.

I have two Yahoo accounts in Thunderbird. Their server name is imap.mail.yahoo.com.

When I sign on to the first one I am careful to remove the check mark from the “Stay signed On”. I receive a response in Thunderbird that a new Yahoo signon has occurred.

The second Yahoo account can receive email but when I send a message to it from Thunderbird the message is not delivered. I receive a notice that sending of the message failed because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.mail.yahoo.com was lost in the middle of the transaction.

Please tell me how to escape from this troubling problem.

Thanks

spruce18b

I have been a regular user of Thunderbird for fifteen years. Every morning I enter passwords on Thunderbird for email on Webmail, Yahoo, Sympatico, Bell Canada and Gmail. This routine has been disrupted after I upgraded Thunderbird to version 78.4.0 (32-bit). I find now that my passwords are no longer required for Yahoo and Gmail. I have several times removed the remembered passwords in the Thunderbird Options>Privacy & Security dialogue for those two providers but the password memory persists. I have two Yahoo accounts in Thunderbird. Their server name is imap.mail.yahoo.com. When I sign on to the first one I am careful to remove the check mark from the “Stay signed On”. I receive a response in Thunderbird that a new Yahoo signon has occurred. The second Yahoo account can receive email but when I send a message to it from Thunderbird the message is not delivered. I receive a notice that sending of the message failed because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.mail.yahoo.com was lost in the middle of the transaction. Please tell me how to escape from this troubling problem. Thanks spruce18b

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Toad-Hall
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re:I find now that my passwords are no longer required for Yahoo and Gmail. There have been recent changes made by those servers. eg:Yahoo who now insist on a change for both imap and pop accounts. Authentication Method must be Oauth not Normal Password. That Oauth token must be stored and it is shown in the Passwords storage area. The OAuth token (not normal password) is used everytime connection to server is required.

spruce18b
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Hi Toad-Hall

The authentication method for both of my Yahoo accounts has already set to Oath2, There is no Oauth as you wrote. The other choices are Normal password, Encrypted password, Kerberos /GSSAPI, NTLM and TLS Certificate. The connection security is set to SSL/TLS and the other connection security settings are STARTTLS and None.

In Privacy and Security>Web content, there is a check mark for Accept cookies from sites. The setting for Accept third-party cookies is From visited (the other choices are Always and Never). Cookies are kept until they expire (other choices are Keep until I close Thunderbird and Ask every time).

Should I change any of these settings?

Thanks

spruce18b

Toad-Hall
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In 'Show cookies' you should see 'accounts.google.com', you could put it into 'Exceptions' and set as 'Allow', so that should any be cleared that one will remain.