Re: Yahoo email timing out

A strange and as yet unexplained thing in all this is that with Mailwasher Pro, which I use as an email preview/filter, the POP3 settings work just fine with the Yahoo accts, while IMAP settings didn't. At MWP, Gmail via IMAP works fine.

Gene



On Tue, May 19, 2026, at 10:05 AM, Anton Shepelev via sylpheed-users wrote:
> Gene Goldenfeld:
>
>> I think of Sylpheed as a program, not an app.
>
> So do I:
>
>    <https://lolwut.neocities.org/comp/app-word>
>
>> Or is Yahoo using the term in the broad sense?  It's not
>> always clear these days.
>
> As well as Google and everybody -- in the incorrect,
> insulting, and denigrating broad sense.  Also, pay heed to
> the adjective:
>
>    Yahoo : third-party apps
>    Google: less-secure apps
>
> That is what they call perfectly normal, standard-complying
> e-mail clients!  An e-mail client is totally indpenedent of
> an e-mail server /by design/, so calling it "third-party" is
> misinformation intended to manipulate the user into
> abandoning decent software based on open and stable
> protocols in favour encagement in a closed proprietary
> "ecosystem".
>
> Futhermore, some e-mail providers are starting to charge
> users for the normal method of accessing their
> mailboxes -- via POP, IMAP, and SMTP, because that way are
> missing the ads in their ugly web interfaces.