Mail Client: Authentification for [Yahoo] failed

Mail Client: Authentification for [Yahoo] failed

Hi,
Opera's build-in e-Mail client gives me this problem: every few minutes it shows me a window saying that it could not load mails from my account. The message is as follows:

Title: Authentification for Yahoo failed.
Message: The server answers with: [SYS/TEMP] internal server error (#IS6532)
Login-Details: ...
Authentification: choose between "Automatic (plain-text)", or "AUTH CRAM-MD5", or "APOP", or "plain-text", or "none".
Options: "Retry", or "Cancel".

It makes no difference, which type of authentification I choose or if I click "Retry" or "Cancel", the window pops up after a few minutes again. This is quite annoying, because Windows then automatically changes to Opera, wherever I'm working at at the moment.
Can anybody help me here? Is this an Opera problem or one of Yahoo? How can I configure Opera so it won't show me the message again (generally, my mail works perfectly well...)?
Thanks a lot in advance!

Do you have a Yahoo Plus mail account?

No, I don't.

Generally speaking, you need to have that premium account in order to access their mail servers directly instead of using web based mail.

Okay... Strange, because as I said, it works well. Just that one thing is quite annoying...
Thanks anyway!

Internal server error means a problem on their end. Sometimes change your listed authentication from Auto to Plaintext (or vice versa) will work. Yeah, I've dealt with Yahoo before.

Some foreign versions of Yahoo don't require premium accounts, you really need to specify if it is Yahoo.com or one of their foreign sites.

Also, thread moved to the Mail/Chat/News forum.

Oh, sorry for posting in the wrong place.
Yes, it is the German version - yahoo.de - I will try that Auto/Plaintext-thing...
Thanks for answering!

Originally posted by fefune12345:

Hi,
Opera's build-in e-Mail client gives me this problem: every few minutes it shows me a window saying that it could not load mails from my account. The message is as follows:

Title: Authentication for Yahoo failed.
Message: The server answers with: [SYS/TEMP] internal server error (#IS6532)
Login-Details: ...
Authentification: choose between "Automatic (plain-text)", or "AUTH CRAM-MD5", or "APOP", or "plain-text", or "none".
Options: "Retry", or "Cancel".

It makes no difference, which type of authentication I choose or if I click "Retry" or "Cancel", the window pops up after a few minutes again.

Since 2 days I am having the same issue with my POP3 account @yahoo.fr and Opera 12 for Linux as well.
My auto-fetch interval time is set to check for new mails every 5min. Checking for and fetching new messages basically still works, manually or automatically, but this stakkato of reoccurring error messages, that have to be clicked away each and every time, is getting on my nerves.

I couldn't find any settings in opera:config or elsewhere to modify the email server response time time-out limit.
Are others seeing this issue as well recently?
Any advice?

Originally posted by OS2-User:

I couldn't find any settings in opera:config or elsewhere to modify the email server response time time-out limit.

opera:config settings are for Opera and some mail UI settings. Mail accounts settings that aren't in the account's properties in the UI have to be edited in accounts.ini in the mail folder while Opera is closed. There's an Incoming Timeout value, but don't know if it'll help.

A log might show something more specific. But, note that Yahoo is buggy, so stuff like this is to be expected.

Originally posted by burnout426:

Originally posted by OS2-User:

I couldn't find any settings in opera:config or elsewhere to modify the email server response time time-out limit.

opera:config settings are for Opera and some mail UI settings. Mail accounts settings that aren't in the account's properties in the UI have to be edited in accounts.ini in the mail folder while Opera is closed. There's an Incoming Timeout value, but don't know if it'll help.

A log might show something more specific. But, note that Yahoo is buggy, so stuff like this is to be expected.

Well, during the course of the past 3 years here with Opera on Linux, I had no reason to complain about POP3 with yahoo.fr. For me it used to work just fine.
Thanks a lot for your pointers, I'll give it a try. With a gazillion of tabs open here, Opera usually becomes unstable and crashes at least twice a day. So it won't be for long until modifying the ini-file can take effect ;-)

Originally posted by burnout426:

A log might show something more specific. But, note that Yahoo is buggy, so stuff like this is to be expected.

burnout, it looks like you are right and Yahoo really IS rather crappy these days.

What started out as this: ...

21/07-2012 02:48:49 POP OUT: Connecting...
21/07-2012 02:48:50 POP IN: +OK hello from popgate-0.8.0.357900 pop112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com 
21/07-2012 02:48:50 POP OUT: CAPA
21/07-2012 02:48:50 POP IN: +OK CAPA list follows
IMPLEMENTATION popgate-0.8.0.357900
XOIP
EXPIRE-NEVER
PIPELINING
RESP-CODES
TOP
UIDL
USER
SASL LOGIN PLAIN
.
21/07-2012 02:48:50 POP OUT: USER xxxxx@yahoo.fr
21/07-2012 02:48:50 POP IN: +OK password required.
21/07-2012 02:48:50 POP OUT: [command contains password]
21/07-2012 02:49:00 POP IN: -ERR [SYS/TEMP] internal server error (#IS6532)
21/07-2012 02:49:00 POP OUT: Disconnect

... has since the past weekend now usually turned into this:

22/07-2012 02:08:59 POP OUT: Connecting... 
22/07-2012 02:09:00 POP IN: +OK hello from popgate-0.8.0.357900 pop114.mail.gq1.yahoo.com  
22/07-2012 02:09:00 POP OUT: CAPA 
22/07-2012 02:09:00 POP IN: +OK CAPA list follows 
IMPLEMENTATION popgate-0.8.0.357900 
XOIP 
EXPIRE-NEVER 
PIPELINING 
RESP-CODES 
TOP 
UIDL 
USER 
SASL LOGIN PLAIN
. 
22/07-2012 02:09:00 POP OUT: USER xxxxxx@yahoo.fr 
22/07-2012 02:09:00 POP IN: +OK password required. 
22/07-2012 02:09:00 POP OUT: [command contains password] 
22/07-2012 02:09:03 POP IN: -ERR [AUTH] Incorrect username or password. 
22/07-2012 02:09:03 POP OUT: Disconnect 
22/07-2012 02:09:08 POP OUT: Disconnect  

Of course, there is nothing wrong on the client side, I just have to repeat it a few times.
Every so often the communication with the email server works fine just as it used to, but every couple of times there are one or some sequential errors until it is then suddenly working again.
I don't know what Yahoo! screwed up recently, but they are more than overdue to finally get a grip on it and fix it for good. Having to click away all the time those error message boxes is really getting annoying.

And btw, the "Incoming Timeout" value setting is not for the authentication process, so it doesn't affect things here.