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Yahoo considers any third-party applications that use password-based authentication to be "less secure" and blocks access to them by default. Since Mailspring still connects Yahoo accounts with a password, you'll need to enable access in your Yahoo settings before connecting to Mailspring.
How do I enable Yahoo access for Mailspring?
- Go to https://login.yahoo.com/account/security#other-apps and enable "Allow apps that use less secure sign in" and enable the option
Or, if you are logged into Yahoo already,
- Clear the gear settings icon and choose "Account Info"
- Click on "Account Security"
- Scroll to "Allow apps that use less secure sign in" and enable it
- Log into Mailspring
Should I be concerned about doing this?
Yes and no—If you've chosen a strong password for your Yahoo account, signing in using your password is safe, especially since Mailspring uses SSL when connecting to Yahoo. Yahoo is moving to an OAuth security model so that third party apps can be disabled individually (without you needing to change your Yahoo password.) Mailspring does not send your Yahoo password, or any other mail passwords, to the cloud without your explicit permission and stores it securely in your system keyring / keychain, so your password is safe when you enter it into Mailspring.
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This process is outdated. Yahoo now requires a separately generated password and doesn't allow you to enable the lower security.
Does this app even have customer service anymore? I sent a support ticket 70 days ago and it's still "Open"
all their social media networks seem to have been abandoned, too
Im having problems login to ymail accounts, a made the apps password but don't works and the error message is empty. I try with two accounts
whats going on?
Hi, I'm having the same problem since may 6th, I generated my app password in yahoo but did not worked. I got the same server connection error but my log just send me to the page were i generated my app password.
Log:
Important: Yahoo requires that you create a unique app password for email apps like Mailspring. Follow this instructions to create one and then paste it below.
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN15241.html?guccounter=1
----------IMAP----------
Hope you can help us to solve this problem.
Thanks
Marco
Has version 1.7.7-71504f2c this issue was solved!
Hi Francisco, I was using version 1.7.6-e94bb759, today I updated to version 1.7.7-71504f2c and the problem is solve.
Thank you very much
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