Yahoo Mail IMAP login failures as of 7-18-2017

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Yahoo Mail IMAP login failures as of 7-18-2017

Post by Jinxed »

Not sure if this is a login scripting issue on yahoo's side, or maybe thunderbird changed it on their server side, but yahoo is suddenly not authenticating, again. ;) ran an openssl terminal test, and of course, the my logins / password combos are working fine. (openssl s_client -crlf -connect imap.mail.yahoo.com:993) double checked the dns resolution, and tried strictly via ip address just to be sure it wasn't a dns issue. TB continues to error, while openssl test comes back clean.

Here's a dump of yahoo's imap server response to an open connect attempt, in case anyone can easily see how/where a change needs to be made. It's most likely someone changed the hello response or something silly. :P

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CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=3 C = US, O = "VeriSign, Inc.", OU = Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority
verify return:1
depth=2 C = US, O = "VeriSign, Inc.", OU = VeriSign Trust Network, OU = "(c) 2006 VeriSign, Inc. - For authorized use only", CN = VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = Symantec Corporation, OU = Symantec Trust Network, CN = Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = Sunnyvale, O = Yahoo Inc., OU = Information Technology, CN = *.imap.mail.yahoo.com
verify return:1
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Certificate chain
 0 s:/C=US/ST=California/L=Sunnyvale/O=Yahoo Inc./OU=Information Technology/CN=*.imap.mail.yahoo.com
   i:/C=US/O=Symantec Corporation/OU=Symantec Trust Network/CN=Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4
 1 s:/C=US/O=Symantec Corporation/OU=Symantec Trust Network/CN=Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4
   i:/C=US/O=VeriSign, Inc./OU=VeriSign Trust Network/OU=(c) 2006 VeriSign, Inc. - For authorized use only/CN=VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5
 2 s:/C=US/O=VeriSign, Inc./OU=VeriSign Trust Network/OU=(c) 2006 VeriSign, Inc. - For authorized use only/CN=VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5
   i:/C=US/O=VeriSign, Inc./OU=Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority
---
Server certificate
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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NYQJfxbkt6VdqhJ+
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
subject=/C=US/ST=California/L=Sunnyvale/O=Yahoo Inc./OU=Information Technology/CN=*.imap.mail.yahoo.com
issuer=/C=US/O=Symantec Corporation/OU=Symantec Trust Network/CN=Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4
---
No client certificate CA names sent
Peer signing digest: SHA512
Server Temp Key: ECDH, P-256, 256 bits
---
SSL handshake has read 4758 bytes and written 431 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1.2
    Cipher    : ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
    Session-ID: 596DCE396EA8E1946DA6C3AE44408DB232D9E28924F94C8B3F7AFFD989E4C64D
    Session-ID-ctx: 
    Master-Key: 84BB0B0842DE7A07AA1A578DC3D02EFBB11E04D1FA502D00D0E385EB8D36C66E3CFC8A42CF57812BD5F144841AD63FD1
    Key-Arg   : None
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    SRP username: None
    Start Time: 1500368441
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ID MOVE NAMESPACE X-ID-ACLID UIDPLUS LITERAL+ XYMHIGHESTMODSEQ SASL-IR AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=XYMLOGIN AUTH=XYMPKI AUTH=XYMCOOKIEB64 AUTH=XOAUTH2 AUTH=OAUTHBEARER] IMAP4rev1 Hello
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Re: Yahoo Mail IMAP login failures as of 7-18-2017

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Moving to Thunderbird Support.
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Re: Yahoo Mail IMAP login failures as of 7-18-2017

Post by tanstaafl »

I'm going to lock this thread to try to encourage people to use either the Thunderbird 52.2.1 mail exchange with Yahoo! accounts thread (where you have posted the same information) or the Can't get Yahoo mail thread.
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