[sylpheed:36973] Re: Yahoo since 20 of October 2020 and Sylpheed

There is some ambiguity in the use of the term “app,” but it still seems to apply largely to mobile (vs. desktop) programs/devices. With Yahoo, when I followed the third-party instructions, it didn’t recognize Mailwasher on the desktop as applicable. Since it now costs to ask Yahoo support a question that gets answered, we’ll just have to wait until October 20 to see.  

Gene

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On Sun, Oct 4, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Javier wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 10:57:52 -0600
> Gene Goldenfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > While I'm not looking at your computer set up, I'm still using POP3
> > with Yahoo; only Mailwasher, i.e., a third party program, had to be
> > changed to IMAP. Have you tried changing the Yahoo account to IMAP
> > in Sylpheed and leaving OAUTH out of it?
> >
> > Gene
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not saying Yahoo can't be checked nowadays through POP3 or IMAP,
> that I do, with both protocols, to date, without problems, but what
> will happen on October 20th.
> 
> In case the app password becomes per-session, using Sylpheed wouldn't
> worth, in my case, when I had to generate loads of app-passwords, what
> is dumb as it would be the same as check the webmail, as you have
> to login to Yahoo's account site; and with Sylpheed there isn't an
> option to use Oauth, that is one of the other options.
> 
> Regards.
>