Re: New problem with AT&T (Yahoo) mail

All of yahoo is owned by verizon, so this may be a wider problem is
likely an understatement.

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020, Emilio Perea wrote:

> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:08:55
> From: Emilio Perea <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: New problem with AT&T (Yahoo) mail
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:56:10AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > Your mail service appears to actually be provided by Yahoo rather than AT&T
> > itself, so it might be a wider problem.
>
> That was the server address given when I set it up, however:
>
> bmx:~/.getmail{19} % host imap.mail.yahoo.com
> imap.mail.yahoo.com is an alias for sky.imap.mail.yahoo.com.
> sky.imap.mail.yahoo.com is an alias for internal.imap.mail.g03.yahoodns.net.
> internal.imap.mail.g03.yahoodns.net has address 216.155.194.49
> internal.imap.mail.g03.yahoodns.net has address 98.137.159.41
>
> The current address given is imap.mail.att.net:
>
> bmx:~/.getmail{20} % host imap.mail.att.net
> imap.mail.att.net is an alias for imap-att.mail.yahoo.com.
> imap-att.mail.yahoo.com is an alias for sky.imap.mail.yahoo.com.
> sky.imap.mail.yahoo.com is an alias for internal.imap.mail.g03.yahoodns.net.
> internal.imap.mail.g03.yahoodns.net has address 98.137.159.41
> internal.imap.mail.g03.yahoodns.net has address 216.155.194.49
>
> So it turns out to be the same.
>
> > It does *look* like a problem at the server end.  getmail is trying to EXAMINE
> > the mailbox, because you're not trying to delete anything and getmail can get
> > by with just read-only access.  But the server is complaining that the EXAMINE
> > command is not valid in this state (which should be logged-in, and which
> > should support EXAMINE just fine...).
>
> As it happens, using the SELECT command merely changes EXAMINE to
> SELECT in the error message.
>
> Apparently AT&T just implemented a "security upgrade" which requires
> replacing the password with a "secure mail key". After I did that,
> nothing  changed. Apparently they haven't told the IMAP servers about
> it. However, the POP3 servers seem to like it, so changing to
> SimplePOP3SSLRetriever works around the problem for now.
>
> Thanks for your help, not to mention getmail itself!
>
> Emilio
>
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