BUG: Can't connect with yahoo

[Dinamots]

Hi,

I tried to use a yahoo adress and it appeared that I have an invalid imap credential (and I entered the right settings)

Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server

Server - imap.mail.yahoo.com
Port - 993
Requires SSL - Yes
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server

Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Port - 465 or 587
Requires SSL - Yes
Requires authentication - Yes

[manusa]

Yahoo doesn't allow standard IMAP access to their accounts (same as Google/Gmail), without specifically configuring your account.

1. https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account/SLN27791.html
2. https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4075.html

For seamless access to e-mail accounts from external clients, clients must implement an OAuth2->IMAP authentication flow (not yet available in Isotope).

So in order to access your Yahoo account from Isotope you may perform the following steps (read the documentation to understand what you're doing)

1. Turn on Allow apps that use less secure sign in:
   
2. Access your account using the settings you provided:
   
   

[Dinamots]

Thx,

Is there a way to make isotope a "secure app" to yahoo and gmail ?
And if it's not possible, Is it possible to print another error message than " Imap credential invalid " ?

[manusa]

Hi @Dinamots

One of the plans after MVP release (v. > 1.0) is to support alternative IMAP method logins (such as [X]OAuth2) so that users can log to their accounts in GMail or Yahoo.

The message is OK as credentials are invalid unless you explicitly configure Yahoo/Gmail to accept "less secure" credentials (Basically there is no possible way to find out that credentials were not valid/discarded by Yahoo's IMAP server due to this fact).