Yahoo mail not arriving in inbox
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@mib2berlin Hi, mib. I thought I had answered that before:
Re: Yahoo mail not arriving in inbox
@mib2berlin Where the Verified label should be I see 'failed to fetch'. There's a button there to update the account but clicking on it does nothing. I'm using IMAP and Oauth. The log entries show 'Failed to process mail' and 'Error adding message body'. This is more than I saw before but I see no indication of what I can do about it. You've started me on the right path, seeing what the problem is. Can you help me further with correcting the problem? Thank you.When I first set up Vivaldi Mail I had problems with my Yahoo account that I didn't have with my other accounts. I don't remember what was wrong or how it was made right. I think maybe after several attempts it finally worked without my knowing why. But maybe, as you say, a reinstall will be easier, considering that I don't know what I'm looking at if I do see where the problem is. I'll do a search and see if I can find which server ports I should be using before I remove the account. Then when I have time I'll try adding the account again.
Thank you for taking time for me.
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@frankp
HI, check Settings > Mail > Server this was one of the questions.
It show the server settings and has to be Verified = Green.
Vivaldi choose these settings automatically if you add an account but it doesn't hurt to write it down or take a screen shot.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Hi mib.
I checked that the IMAP server settings are what Yahoo says they should be and deleted the account. Now I can't add it again. There's a green check mark, but add account won't complete. I've tried with and without Oauth. I've clicked on the add manually button. I've copy-pasted the server names from the Yahoo IMAP settings page. The ports are what they should be. I've tried all these variations again and again. I keep seeing 'failed to fetch', 'invalid credentials', 'try again', and I can't remember what else. I keep getting the Yahoo account login page. The Yahoo help pages just tell me to do what I tell them is not working. The memory is returning that I went through all this when I first added that mail account. I can't remember how it was finally resolved. I'm beginning to suspect that this may be a Yahoo problem that is outside of what Vivaldi can do anything about. I'll try asking around later when I have some time. If you find out anything more about this please let me know. Thanks again.
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@frankp
Did you can final the verification process on the Yahoo page?
Can you login to the web client?
If you want you use only password you have to create a new app password in Yahoo, you can use it only once if I remember correctly.
In Account > Security > Other ways to sign inYahoo has sometimes issues, more than other provider but not for days.
Maybe the OAuth token is outdated or broken after the Vivaldi update.
I have to go through the login process on Goggle every time Vivaldi gets a major update.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Many new issues re Yahoo, but now Vivaldi is popping up every minute demanding I log in again. It won't accept my login info. I'm already in , obviously, as I'm typing this, but continually closing the login window is preventing from doing anything else. I'll have to come back later and see if I can do anything here.
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@edwardp The users in that thread did not report exactly the issue I faced. The pop-ups I got were not for Google or Yahoo, but for Vivaldi itself. And they didn't come a few times a day, but about once every minute, without relief. And I couldn't do as instructed and log in again; I was told my name or password were incorrect. However, after leaving everything for a day, when I came back to Vivaldi and got that pop-up, I logged in successfully and haven't been bothered with it since.
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@mib2berlin After a couple of days the pop-up problem that kept me from using Vivaldi has resolved itself. I was surprised to see that after removing my Yahoo account in the Vivaldi Mail Settings page, for a day or two I wasn't getting messages in the Yahoo inbox in the other platforms I use, Thunderbird and Google. I could still send messages from my Yahoo account there, but no new messages were showing up anywhere. This was just my Yahoo account -- all my other email accounts have continued to work as they always have. I don't understand how something done in Vivaldi settings can affect other apps. For these two things to happen at just the same time can't be a coincidence. But after a day or two I started getting messages again everywhere I had the Yahoo email account running. I still couldn't reinstall the account in Vivaldi Mail using Oauth. So I went to Yahoo settings and had a one time app password for Vivaldi generated. Then I went back to Vivaldi Mail settings and added the account again. This time I chose to use that password instead of Oauth. After pasting in that pw, I saw the green Verified sign. Now I seem to be getting all my messages in the Yahoo inbox (except for the day when they mysteriously disappeared from everywhere). When I was in Yahoo's app password settings, it showed my history of doing that before. I'd forgotten about that. Thank you, mib, for reminding me about using that method when the usual way doesn't work in Yahoo.
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@mib2berlin Update: There was so much going on I forgot to look in the junk or spam folders for the messages missing from my inbox for a day or so. But they're not found there either in any of my mail platforms. So it's still a mystery what happened to them.
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@frankp
Hi and sorry for the late reply but I have no idea how to help you.
I don't use Yahoo mail actively, all mails are spam mostly but the same in Vivaldi and the Yahoo web client.Cheers, mib
