New Mailbox Not Accepting Any Additions
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I've tried over and over with each of the recent updates to add my Yahoo, Gmail, And AOL mailboxes to the new mail feature. Every time, for each of them, it tells me I have invalid credentials. I am absolutely using my correct passwords for the mail and I am the sole authority/manager for these mailboxes. Please help/
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@tokiemoon At least for Yahoo and GMail this is because both services don't just let you log in with an external client, but require folks to do extra steps (they will say to increase security, which may be true, but it's certainly also to increase the hurdle to leave their ecosystem)
Apparently yahoo requires a special third party app password, see https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/62507/import-yahoo-account/4?_=1623608831347
There are plenty of threads here on the forum regarding the specifics of GMail, but there is also some information that might get you going in the mail help https://help.vivaldi.com/mail/mail-get-started/add-and-manage-mail-accounts/#Add_an_account
Not sure about AOL, but I would assume that it's something similar. Check the AOL mailbox help on how to set up external mail clients. Whatever works for, say, thunderbird, should also work for Vivaldi mail.
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@wildente
Thank you so much for your response. I'm not real tech savvy and when I looked at setting up app passwords, I'm at a loss because I use my PC for looking at mail and there is no app. I'm afraid to just go ahead and try making app passwords as it may mess up my other working system. I use Vivaldi as my browser and already have all 3 mailboxes in place and working. I'm not even sure if it would change anything or if I would even like it different So, I am just going to leave it as is.
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@tokiemoon understandable. If you do find out later at some point, please post the solution here in the forums - ideally Vivaldi will grow so much that any problem will affect at least two people so your hint might help the other folks
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number 2 here