Re: Yahoo email timing out

Anton Shepelev via sylpheed-users <[email protected]> Tue, 19 May 2026 12:38:46 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.sylpheed.general
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Gene Goldenfeld:

> For decades, I've had a couple of Yahoo email accounts
> using POP3 in Sylpheed. Sometime between this past
> Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, they started timing
> out. Like someone pulled a switch without warning. Trying
> to figure out why, and what to do. I can access Yahoo
> Mail, so it's not a pw problem.

It seems you ought to be using an "app password":

         <https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN15241.html>

Do you have one?