748687 - BT/Yahoo fails to recognise password for sending new mail. Thunderbird 11.0.1

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[margaretpenfold]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.162 Safari/535.19

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to send mail after updating to Thunderbird 11.0.1


Actual results:

Password refused by BT/Yahoo
(I tried to resolve the issue by changing the password at the BT?Yahoo end and then in Thunderbird several times but although BT?Yahoo accepted the changed password when I used it directly in webmail, it still refuses it when sent by Thunderbird 


Expected results:

BT/Yahoo should have forwarded mail to Thunderbird so I could use Thunderbird's features to sort my mail efficiently

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to margaretpenfold from comment #0)
Do you use special characters in your password? see bug 663814.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Did comment 1 helped ?

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

are you using Yahoo over pop3 ?

Comment 4

[margaretpenfold]

Sorry, I didn't find this URL.  No my password doesn't have odd characters at any time.  I just use the alphabet and digits iin all the passwords I have tried
I uninstalled the previous version of Thunderbird again on 13th October and set up a new version from Thunderbird from 16.0 exe  
However I still receive the error message 
 An error occurred with the POP3 mail server. Mail server mail.btinternet.com responded
The odd thing is I can write mails in thunderbird from new and send them all right.  , but cannot receive mail in thunderbird

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

> An error occurred with the POP3 mail server. Mail server mail.btinternet.com responded

margaretpenfold, do you still see this when using a current version?

Comment 6

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard