I have a few email accounts, so Thunderbird is an ideal client to bring them all together. I have used my Yahoo account with Thunderbird for years now, possibly approaching 20 years, with no problem. However, during the last couple of months I have had problems with the connection such that Thunderbird stalls while accessing Yahoo and I see "Thunderbird not responding". I may even get a "Server has disconnected" message. If I get the latter, then suddenly the situation resolves and the email messages are downloaded. Otherwise, it is just a matter of waiting a couple of minutes until it clears, but it was always instantaneous in the past. Occasionally, I will also get delays when trying to send an email, but generally it is with downloading. Nothing else has changed. The only other change in the past few months has been the verification method for hotmail/live addresses which was not a problem.

Any thoughts? Peter