But surely we deserve a better roll-out than this.Īnd to make things even more odd - I once had thunderbird set up on my laptop, so out of curiousity, I reinstalled it. Unfortunately I'm somewhat captive as I have little appetite for changing email provider. this has come out of blue (to me anyway) with no introduction, discussion etc. What I don't want to have my password remembered? How do I update my settings to use the App Password?

So now I have to write it down? That breaks rule 1.Īnd if I should want to change the password (which I would do periodically or if there is evidence of compromise of the providers' servers), can I do that? What’s an “App Password” and why do I need it? I suppose I can switch the web client password to match the app password but that will be highly cumbersome. So I'm going to have different passwords for the same email account on different clients? This is terrible. What about IMAP account accessed through web client? I have IMAP accounts, and use Outlook, iOS, and web (Firefox) clients. Suggests I need to update as I use Outlook. This was set up years ago and have absolutely no idea. How do I know if I used automatic Yahoo mail set up? (On iOS in my case). 'Who doesn’t need to update their settings?'

Here's one post but I have seen others n similar vein I'm also concerned about impaired security, given the use of OAuth. Skipping ahead, this smells like a plot to discourage use of clients like Outlook. They do not say exactly what is wrong with current username / password protocol? If that's good enough for banking (regular transactions), it's good enough for email, surely? I'll cover the detail in the same sequence as Rogers' web page I am QUITE sure this web page does not make the case, or make it clear who has to do what. However, I'm not sure this is the solution. (It seems other types of email would have been fine, in my case I just switched to SMS, which doesn't strike me as overly secure either but thats what they seemed to like), My bank recently refused to email a confirmation code for an unusually large transaction as I have a Yahoo mail account. It seems Yahoo DOES have a problem of some sort. The web page that Rogers has put up is both confusing and ambiguous / incomplete, and I consider myself to have pretty good comfort level with technology. I have seen web discussions that suggest OAth has security vulnerabilities. Considerable extra inconvenience for quite possibly less security than at present. In summary, this seems to be quite a major change that is being foisted on us, without warning. (Long reply, sorry, but there's a lot to say)

Yahoo mail settings are out of date