Solved Why won't Yahoo accept my email credentials when I try to enter them in Thunderbird?


RhinoCan

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I bought a new laptop a couple of weeks ago and am still struggling to get my Yahoo email working with the current version of Thunderbird. Thunderbird keeps the password in its Password Manager and when you set up an email account, it wants to know the password for that account. In the case of a Yahoo account, it has you sign in to Yahoo, using the yahoo email address, then you press Next so that it can prompt you for the password. (It already gathered the email address during the setup of the account.)

Whenever I get to the screen that gets you to confirm that email address (which is correct) and then press Next, I get an error message: "Please enable cookies in your browser and sign in again." It gives no clue as to *which* browser it is planning to use. (I have Brave and Chrome, with Brave as my default browser. I also have Edge on the machine but never use it.)

I made a seemingly reasonable assumption and assumed it wanted my default browser, Brave, so I turned on third-party cookies for all of the following domains: yahoo.com, ca.yahoo.com, and yahoo.ca since the email address is in the yahoo.ca domain. It still won't accept my credentials. I then enabled third party cookies for the same domains on both Chrome and Edge but I'm STILL getting the same error message.

I can't think of anything else to try.

I don't have this trouble on my old Windows 10 laptop so I'm wondering if Windows 11 has a known problem that would account for this exasperating behaviour?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 11 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Elitebook 665 G11
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 7735U
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon™ 680M Graphics
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1920 x 1200
    Hard Drives
    512GB SSD
    Browser
    Brave, Chrome
    Other Info
    Windows version: 24H2
You must have cookies enabled in TB Preferences/Privacy, not your web browser.
 

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System One System Two

  • OS
    All Branches but Release
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Nitro ANV15-51
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS 3200-4500 Mhz 8 cores x 2
    Motherboard
    Sportage_RBH
    Memory
    32 GB DDR5
    Graphics Card(s)
    Radeon Graphic / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB GDDR6
    Sound Card
    AMD/Realtek(R) Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Integrated Monitor (15.3"vis)
    Screen Resolution
    FHD 1920X1080 16:9 144Hz
    Hard Drives
    KINGSTON OM8SEP4512Q-AA 1TB
    Western Digital 256GB
    PSU
    19V DC 6.32 A 120 W
    Cooling
    Dual Fans
    Mouse
    MS Bluetooth
    Internet Speed
    Fiber 1GB Cox -us & 1GB Orange-fr
    Browser
    Edge Canary- Firefox Nightly-Chrome Dev-Chrome Dev
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Beta
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Asus X751BP
    CPU
    AMD A9-9420
    Memory
    8 GB of DDR4
    Graphics card(s)
    AMD Radeon R5
    Screen Resolution
    1600x900
    Hard Drives
    Seagate 1 TB
Thank you VERY MUCH for figuring that out!

That error message was a complete misdirection then. It should have told me to enable cookies in *Thunderbird*, not the browser!
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 11 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Elitebook 665 G11
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 7735U
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon™ 680M Graphics
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1920 x 1200
    Hard Drives
    512GB SSD
    Browser
    Brave, Chrome
    Other Info
    Windows version: 24H2

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