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firefoxuse
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hello!

I try to send a message via ymail and it says:

An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: Resources temporarily unavailable - Please try again later. Please check the message and try again.

What is this again? New annoyance in TB?

Any solution??

thanks!
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tanstaafl
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I can duplicate the problem using a Yahoo IMAP account with Thunderbird 52.2.1. It sounds like a temporary problem on the server. I tried sending a message via yahoo webmail. It took ten minutes until I got it, it normally takes ten seconds. That seems consistent with the Thunderbird error message.
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Others are also reporting problems with Yahoo servers -- http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3032520
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Same happened to me.
Problem caused by Thunderbird 'failure' to auto load password for SMTP.
I had to go to the Accounts page and click on "Create a New Account" and redo info for my account adding in the password again.
When I again tried to send the e-mail the security box, to logon onto the server, popped-up asking for my password ...
I filled-in the password and checked 'remember password'.
It then sent the e-mail.
I still get the security box every time I boot-up Thunderbird and have to fill it out for that session and tell it to "remember password", which it does for that whole session.
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That's not the way Thunderbird works for most folks, even those accessing a Yahoo account. It sounds as though you're running up against something unique to Yahoo and their recent changes in handling passwords, etc.
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I don't have a yahoo account.
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Who is the email provider?
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My impression was that ymail was a yahoo account using the ymail domain in the email address. Ditto for rocketmail.
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DanRaisch wrote:Who is the email provider?

At&t in-bound and out-bound (with Frontier being the account holder).
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