On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:04:46 +0100 Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> On 31/08/2020 14:18, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > On 30/08/2020 19:02, Long Wind wrote: > >> On Sunday, August 30, 2020, 10:20:53 AM EDT, Charles Curley > >> <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > >>> Yahoo mail is broken. I encourage Mr. Wind to get another mail reader. > >> > >> > >> i don't have choice. gmail is blocked in china. i've tried some free > >> chinese mail provider, they block debian list. (i've sent subscription > >> request thru their mail service, then nothing happened) > > Pretty much all webmail services are bad with regards to proper quoting > > and interleaved text. Some are worse than others, though. > > > > Does Yahoo provide IMAP/SMTP support? Then you can use a real mail > > client (Thunderbird/KMail/mutt/etc). > > > Yes, it does. Yahoo! are moving over to 2FA authentication everywhere > (which is obviously not compatible with IMAP/SMTP) so you'll be > encouraged to create an "Application Specific Password" (that is, a > long, unique password, which you should use for one instance of one > application) for tools like Mutt, GetMail etc. I *think* Thunderbird > supports 2FA, though - use the new account Wizard to assist you. > The switch to the "new" set up is scheduled for 20 October 2020. If you have a Yahoo Mail account, you should have gotten a notice already with instruction links for adapting to the new system based on your OS and email client. Not needed if you use Yahoo's mail client or Web access. I myself use Claws Mail as my email client and Yahoo has had a nasty habit over the past few years of "timing it out" for security reasons as "too old." "Too old" means about 2 years. Currently, I'm still using Stretch and even the Backports version of Claws won't work with Yahoo Mail. Works with everything else though. Fortunately, I had an install of Devuan Beowulf (Buster but without systemd) in a VM for testing, and the version of Claws there works fine. My solution to all this has been to delete all my Yahoo accounts and be done with Yahoo. Currently, I have only one account left which I'll be keeping for a few months until I can switch all the contacts over to the new email account under a different provider. To our OP in China: check if Zoho Mail is blocked. They have offices in China -- www.zoho.com.cn So, I doubt they are. They have both free and for pay accounts. Lots of features, too. B
