666590 - No POP email download service from Yahoo! after auto-upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1.11

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 667057

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB7.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11

After auto-installing Thunderbird upgrade version 3.1.11, I can no longer automatically download emails from Yahoo.com server using POP service. Version 3.1.10 worked fine, up through yesterday. I can still send emails through Yahoo!, using the POP service, just like before. OS is Win 7 Pro 64-bit. Firewall is latest Zone Alarm. Anti-virus is latest AVG. No way known to start Thunderbird in safe mode, so cannot check that. Email service provider is Yahoo.com. POP and SMTP settings worked immediately before installing version 3.1.11. Any suggestions? Thanks. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on Get Mail/Get All New Messages 
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Actual Results:  
Status message at bottom of Thunderbird window indicates "Connected to pop.mail.yahoo.com...". After about one minute, Thunderbird (or perhaps Yahoo!) times out, and no emails have been downloaded. 

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should have received email messages from Yahoo! server.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

What are your SMTP settings ?
server, SSL setting, secure password and port....

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Is thunderbird allowed to connect to the internet in your firewall settings ?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/thunderbird_has_stopped_getting_yahoo_mail

Comment 4

[Roland Tanglao needinfo please :rolandtanglao, :mohnkuchen, :adobo, :sinigang, :roland]

it's a yahoo problem that affects all email clients including Outlook, Apple Mail.app and Thunderbird
see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667057