Hmmm…probably explains why I was forced-logged out a couple of weeks ago and had to re-enter my passwords.
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Yahoo Warns Users of Third Data Breach As Verizon Closes in on Revised Deal
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The only way I can even access my godforsaken Frontier-Yahoo mail setups now (they were pop3 via Apple mail) is to forward them to another email address that's set up as imap in my Apple mail, and then go into the original accounts via webmail if I want to reply to any of them. Somehow their conversion program to use OAuth for pop3 setups in mail clients ends up with an imap server certificate complaining about a mismatch.
Sigh... someone said if you upgrade the OS to Sierra may not have this problem. Not ready yet on my main laptop so have this stupid workaround for now.
Most annoying thing is Frontier has never acknowledged we were affected by any of the Yahoo breaches. I have asked tech support three or four times already, getting nocommittal answers or "Not sure yet..." We didn't ask for them to decide to ditch their proprietary mail and go to a system hosted by Yahoo to begin with. Anyway now they're switching how they do their app authentication of mail clients tells me we either were breached or they think we might be next.
Sigh... someone said if you upgrade the OS to Sierra may not have this problem. Not ready yet on my main laptop so have this stupid workaround for now.
Most annoying thing is Frontier has never acknowledged we were affected by any of the Yahoo breaches. I have asked tech support three or four times already, getting nocommittal answers or "Not sure yet..." We didn't ask for them to decide to ditch their proprietary mail and go to a system hosted by Yahoo to begin with. Anyway now they're switching how they do their app authentication of mail clients tells me we either were breached or they think we might be next.
Waaaay back when…I wanted to set up Yahoo in my mail apps and I wanted IMAP.
At the time the only way to do that was to go to the actual website and set up my location as Singapore. I have no idea if anything has changed since then, but I've not ever gone back and changed my location. I still have IMAP.
Only now, Yahoo is demanding app-specific passwords. I just set up my Yahoo account in Entourage 2008 a few weeks ago and it would not take my normal password. Had to go to my account on the website, generate an app-specific password and use that.
I don't know if any of this helps you, but I've had IMAP with Yahoo for years.
Thanks... yah I didn't have any problem w/ fetching and use of the one-time app password. Everything worked fine until for some reason the conversion process Frontier-Yahoo provided for pop3 accounts concluded by pointing at an imap server certificate and there was no way for end user to edit that.
Frontier were apparently aiming to roll all the pop3 accounts to OAuth starting April 1st and the techs were not sure why some accounts got triggered into the conversion process earlier (and without the email notice that in theory would precede the process). It's possible the pop3 accounts cannot actually be converted ahead of their intended schedule, hence an assumption of the current conversion process that the accounts are imap to begin with, who knows.
In the meantime forwarding to an iCloud setup lets me read the stuff through the Mail client. So one by one I'm just moving my correspondents now in Frontier setups to a gmail or iCloud account, and so will soon enough be done with Frontier-Yahoo mail forever. I already long ago switched my billing contact for Frontier itself to a gmail setup lol. If I didn't prefer a landine that still works when the power is out I'd have switched my provider to TWC a long time ago even though I'm no fan of theirs either. I still need a landline but I'm starting to think it's worth the bother of driving up top a mountain and just use my iPhone if the power goes out, Frontier is so annoying. Next time TWC runs a direct mail promo into my snailmail box, I might not feed it to the shredder.
Oh hilarious!!!
Apparently the Yahoo UK email account I have and the Yahoo Ireland email account I have were part of these intrusions. Both accounts are minimal, have no CC info and were last directly accessed two years ago.
But not my main Yahoo.com account.
Both of these non-USA accounts exist simply so I can say to someone "I have a UK or Ireland email address" and aren't used for anything beyond that.
SMH!