Ubuntu can't make Yahoo! mail secure, man. Yahoo! can't make Yahoo! mail secure.
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Yahoo and Gmail are popular, but alternatives certainly exist. [very old thread] https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=107369 https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2125263 http://email.about.com/od/freeemailr...free_email.htm http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-secur...viders-online/
I don't use Yahoo Mail but I can help. Have you tried using an alternative email client like Mozilla Thunderbird or something?
Some of the responses are not to the point. Yes I am using gmail Now. as I wrote in Feb Since 16th of Jan 2015 My Ubuntu Computer has stopped recieving Yahoo e-mail as very Dangerous Bakdoor E-mail Sent in my Name. Still looking Complete Solution! This Cyber Attack offered some money loan. A friend of mine opened the mail and I guess caused it to spread like fire! Yahoo Blocked my Desktop Computer. This is still Causing a lot of Harm! Finally I suggested that Snappy needs Protection and A tool To Clean up the Mails. Thanks Uncle Sam
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Okay, so you're using Gmail, but aren't receiving any e-mails from Yahoo! addresses, because their servers have blacklisted you? But that still doesn't make any sense - your computer doesn't "receive" e-mail messages if you're using Gmail. The messages are stored on Gmail's server, and you can access them on any computer you can log into Gmail from. If Yahoo! has the ability to blacklist an external account of yours, it would be your Gmail account, having nothing to do with your computer at all. But I've never heard of this kind of blacklisting. All of the problems you're having are serverside. They don't happen on your computer, and the services don't care what computer you're using. You're also confused about Snappy. It's a blend of Ubuntu, nothing more or less, and the only difference from the .deb-based Ubuntu is in how packages are installed, run, and sandboxed. Right now, Snappy only exists for Ubuntu Server. It does not have anything to do with how your home computer communicates with the servers at Gmail or Yahoo!.
If an undesirable email has gone out in your name and which claims to be from your Yahoo email address, it doesn't automatically mean that your Yahoo account was compromised. It's quite possible (and surprisingly easy if you know how) for the sender details to be forged, faked and spoofed. The best way of determining if this has happened is by an analysis of the headers of the offending message(s).
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Yeah, but he said his "computer" no longer "receives" messages from Yahoo!. I don't know what that means without further explanation, but that seems to be the problem he's trying to solve, not the original compromised account or spoofed e-mail.
I installed Wiley Thanks Uncle Sam
Originally Posted by Copper Bezel Yeah, but he said his "computer" no longer "receives" messages from Yahoo!. I don't know what that means without further explanation, but that seems to be the problem he's trying to solve, not the original compromised account or spoofed e-mail. Originally Posted by sam-c I installed Wiley Thanks Uncle Sam Just a thought: it has been a while since I've set it, but there is an option within Yahoo mail's system that needs to be set to allow POP/IMAP access on your computer via an email client such as Thunderbird. I've also heard in the past that Yahoo sometimes liked people to have paid accounts for it to work.
Originally Posted by lisati If an undesirable email has gone out in your name and which claims to be from your Yahoo email address, it doesn't automatically mean that your Yahoo account was compromised. It's quite possible (and surprisingly easy if you know how) for the sender details to be forged, faked and spoofed. The best way of determining if this has happened is by an analysis of the headers of the offending message(s). That's certainly true, but much less common now that Yahoo uses DMARC. Messages that simply forge the From: header will fail because they won't have a correlated entry at Yahoo. As someone who manages listservers, I've had a number of subscribers with Yahoo accounts that have been compromised. Usually the purpose is to grab the victim's address book and spam them with messages forged as From: the victim. Servers that don't rely on DMARC checks will deliver those. There used to be step-by-step videos at YouTube presenting methods to hijack Yahoo accounts. I don't know if there are any that still work.
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