Le lundi 23 juin 2025, 18:46:46 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Soren Stoutner a
écrit :

There is a link in the upper right corner of the URL in the previous email named:

“Generate and manage 3rd party app passwords”

Basically, it is a special password generated by Yahoo (you don’t get to choose what it is) that will work with one client for POP (each POP client needs a separate app password). For security reasons, they do not allow you to use the website password f
On Monday, June 23, 2025 9:40:12 AM Mountain Standard Time MERLIN wrote:

Le lundi 23 juin 2025, 18:08:18 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Soren Stoutner

Thanks again, that's the solution, I didn't know about the security requirements.
Philippe MERLIN

écrit :

You cannot use your normal Yahoo password. You need to generate an app password.

Thanks for the reply.
I don't understand what an "app passwd" is. If my password is, for
example,
"XXXxxx" and I can log in to my mailbox via Firefox with this password,
how

do

I generate this "app passwd" or retrieve it?

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/pop-access-settings-instructions-yahoo-mail-sl n472 4.html

On Monday, June 23, 2025 8:55:58 AM Mountain Standard Time MERLIN wrote:

Hey,
I am changing computers and I am migrating all applications from one

computer

to another, both computers have the same Linux Kde Debian SID system.

The

configuration of Kontact (Kmail) creates a problem for me that I
cannot
resolve. I have three POP3 mailboxes for two of the mailboxes I have not

hadI

am changing computers and I am migrating all applications from one computer
toI am changing computers and I am migrating all applications from one computer to another, both computers have the same Linux Kde Debian SID

system.

The configuration of Kontact (Kmail) creates a problem for me that I cannot
resolve. I have three POP3 mailboxes for two of the mailboxes I have not
had any problem a little surprised anyway by the fact that we cannot enter the password of the mailbox at this time and that it is only requested at the first attempt to receive messages from this mailbox.

For

a mailbox managed

by

Yahoo I cannot access each time after a certain time I have the
message
indicating that the password is incorrect, I made several attempts by scrupulously checking the password without success, I access without problem by firefox to this yahoo mailbox with this password. On my old computer with Contact, I have no problem accessing this Yahoo mailbox. I don't know what to do anymore. Could you help me solve this problem? another, both computers have the same Linux Kde Debian SID system. The configuration of Kontact (Kmail) creates a problem for me that I
cannot
resolve. I have three POP3 mailboxes for two of the mailboxes I have not
had any problem a little surprised anyway by the fact that we cannot enter the password of the mailbox at this time and that it is only requested at the first attempt to receive messages from this mailbox.

For

a mailbox managed

by

Philippe MERLIN

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