Re: Yahoo email timing out

On Tue, 19 May 2026 20:54:26 +0300
Anton Shepelev via sylpheed-users
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Gene Goldenfeld:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yahoo may be having different policies from Gmail's.  My
> Sylpheed works well with Gmail over IMAP, using Google's
> "app passwords".  Have you analysed Sylpheed logs for errors
> as I recommended in my initial reply? --
> 
>    Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 12:24:10 +0300
> 
> You may view the current sessions's log in
> Tools -> Log window ,
> or in sylpheed.log in your mail directory.
> 
> 

Here's an outgoing test from a Yahoo acct in Sylpheed:

* Connecting to SMTP server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com ...
[13:14:55] SMTP< 220 smtp.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP ready
[13:14:55] ESMTP> EHLO DESKTOP-I08AKQ1
[13:14:55] ESMTP< 250-hermes--production-gq1-7bb7df5c46-m4r75 Hello
DESKTOP-I08AKQ1 [47.28.220.175]) [13:14:55] ESMTP< 250-PIPELINING
[13:14:55] ESMTP< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
[13:14:55] ESMTP< 250-8BITMIME
[13:14:55] ESMTP< 250-SIZE 41697280
[13:14:55] ESMTP< 250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN XOAUTH2 OAUTHBEARER
[13:14:55] ESMTP> AUTH PLAIN ********
[13:14:55] ESMTP< 535 5.7.0 (#AUTH005) Too many bad auth attempts.
** LibSylph-WARNING: [13:14:55] error occurred on authentication

** error occurred on authentication
** Sylpheed-WARNING: send: error: 535 5.7.0 (#AUTH005) Too many bad
auth attempts.