Comments on: How to configure Thunderbird Yahoo mail settings in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

By: Jalabhai

Jalabhai — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:33:46 +0000

Yahoo

By: cognac

cognac — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:24:27 +0000

Please HELP!

I’ve tried solution 1, step by step, as detailed above. I could not reach my account, while I launch Thunderbird:
An error had occurred with the POP3 mail sever. Mail sever 127.0.0.1 responded: [blank]

What did I wrong?
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By: grizzlysmit

grizzlysmit — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:08:30 +0000

I got the smtp feature working too, ok in Tools->Add-ons selet the preferences for smtp set the port to be something else I chose the next along 1026 then click the green + icon to start it (saves a restart) make sure “Enable on startup” is checked. (You can also optionally check “Show server status in status bar” to get a handy reminder of status.) Then make smtp accout as follows in Edit->Account Settings … go to the left pane scroll down to “Outgoing Server (SMTP)” select this and then select the Add button on the far right, in Decription give it a name i.e. “yahoo smtp”, then set “Server Name:” to 127.0.0.1 then set port to 1026 set username to your user name i.e. yourname@yahoo.com or yourname@hotmail.com set “Use secure conection” to No, (I haven’t tried the other options yet) click OK and you should be good to go, then pick your pop or imap account that u want to use this smtp server and go to select the top of the accounts tree in the left pane and then go down the page that comes up to “Outgoing Server (SMTP):” and select your new account in the dropdown and there you go. I’ve tried it with yahoo and hotmail and it works fine.

By: Moh

Moh — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:50:29 +0000

I followed solution 2 and now i am forwarding to my gmail great stuff!

@awww: i just switched from Thunderbird to Evolution! which i found easier to use and got all the extensions (plug-ins/addons) that i need while in thunderbird it took some time to fine tune it to meet my needs…evolution everything worked for me out of the box

By: ATOzTOA

ATOzTOA — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:19:26 +0000

I got this error!!!

“Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server 127.0.0.1 responded: negative vibes from xxx@yahoo.com“

By: awww

awww — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:43:03 +0000

aww…very nice.

@Moh: who still uses Evolution these days? =\

By: Moh

Moh — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:10:01 +0000

Any idea how to set it up in Evolution ?

By: Asim

Asim — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:59:25 +0000

Solution 1 worked like a charm. Thanks