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I have set up email on Yahoo using Apple Mail (iPhone) and Thunderbird (Win). When you log in on the website, you use your normal ID and password. But when you use a third-party email program on a device it requires an “App Password” for verification. It goes in the password box in the email program instead of your normal password.

If you log in your email on the web, in the Security section there will be instructions for generating the App Password (or other method of modern authentication) online and using it in your email program (Outlook in your case) instead of your normal password.

Another modern authentication method is OAuth2.

I don’t know what email provider you use, but you will need whatever modern authentication method they require

This has to do with OAuth/OAuth2 (or whatever security passcode generation they are using now). I have run in to this several years ago and here is a link to previous discussions and an explanation. There is (I think a different system now, but it works like Dana is saying.

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/search/OAuth/?gdpos=power-search-request&gdpos_search_users_input=PKCano

If you are using Outlook to download AOL mail, you may need an OAuth/OAuth2 16-character secure passcode.

If you access AOL online using a browser and viewing your mail on the server, you use your regular AOL password. But if you use third-party apps (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) to download your mail to your computer, it may require a security passcode. In that case, you enter the passcode in place of (instead of) the AOL password, in the applications settings or in the box that asks for your ID/password.

Instructions for generating the passcode should be available on your ISP’s website, or on the AOL website.

Are you using your AOL password?
I think you need a (16-character?) security passcode, instead of the AOL password, to connect to AOL with Thunderbird.
OAuth or OAuth2 maybe? Check the AOL website for instructions on creating an email security passcode.

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aaron451

My experience with OAuth security has been this:

When you log into your email provider online (from a browser directly on their website), you use the email provider password to access your mail.

But email programs installed on your computer, like Thunderbird (and Outlook, and some other email programs), are considered non-secure. So you have to create a secure 16-character passphrase (not your password) to use when accessing your email through the program. From within Thunderbird, the secure passphrase gives access, from a browser in the website the password gives access.

Somewhere on your email provider’s website, probably under Support, there should be instructions on how to create the secure 16-character passphrase. Then you use that secure passphrase  in Thunderbird instead of your password.

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opti1

I have been using T-Bird for an equivalent amount of time.
Has nothing to do with T-Bird‘s requirements.
Has everything to do with the email carrier and their security requirements.

Just so happens that some email programs are considered non-secure (Outlook, T-Bird, others) by whatever standards OAuth uses.

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SueW, OscarCP, WSpfeldmann

Just for information purposes.
The secure mail key (16-character) has to be used in place of the original password when using Outlook as a mail client. ATT/Yahoo/Oauth consider Outlook a non-secure app. The same goes if you use Thunderbird as a client.

If you access the mail directly on the ATT/Yahoo (or wherever they store it now) website through a browser, the original password has to be used (not the secure mail key).

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Basem Khawaja

If your ISP mail is controlled by OAuth (AOL, Yohoo, and more) they may require a creation of a 16-character passkey to be used instead of your email password when you use what OAuth considers an insecure email client. Some of the insecure clients are Outlook, Thunderbird, and others. You should check with your email provider to see if this is what’s happened in your case.

What happens is, you can access your email with your normal password if you go through a browser and log in on your email provider’s server. But, if you use a email client on your PC, you have to substitute the 16-character passkey in place of your password.

See this thread and post #2302344 and the ones linked in the post for more information.

If you are accessing AOL mail directly through your browser (and not using an email client such as Thunderbird, Outlook, of AOL’s mail client), you should be OK.

The problem arises because those mail clients mentioned are considered insecure. So OAuth/Yahoo are requiring the creation and use of a 16-character passkey when using those clients to access mail on their servers.

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Win7and10, hhodges, PaulaB

This sounds like something I have seen before.
I have an ATT email address I have had for years.
Yahoo/OAuth took over the handling of ATT mail services.
I use Thunderbird as my email client, and OAuth considers TBird (and Outlook and maybe your AOL app) as non-secure applications.
They now require a 16-charachter passkey in place of the old password when using the clients (pwd stays the same on direct login to ATT though, not the passkey)

There are at least three previous threads where I explain this. Read through and see if this is your case.

#2242190, #2287985, and #2296287

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Cybertooth, Kathy Stevens

You do a one-time generation of a 16-character passkey (You can change it by re-doing the generation) as instructed.
In the mail setup in the email client (I use Thunderbird, which OAuth also doesn’t consider secure), you use the 16-character passkey instead of your password.
In my case, my carrier is ATT. It does not change the password that I use if I login directly to web mail through a browser on the Internet. That remains the original password.

Both Outlook and Thunderbird email clients are subject to the same authentication key restrictions using a Yahoo mail account imposed by OAuth.

If you are using ATT/Bellsouth/SBC or some other affiliate, your email is handled by Yahoo/OAuth.
If you use Thunderbird as your E-mail client, you have to use a 16-character key instead of your password to access the email through Thunderbird. In Thunderbird, when it asks you for the password, put in the 16-character key instead and tell it to remember that.

This link is instructions for ATT/Yahoo mail using Thunderbird. If you have mail through the other old “Bell” Companies, you will find similar instructions for what they consider “unsecure” mail clients..

https://www.att.com/support/article/email-support/KM1240308

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woody

ATT uses Yahoo servers for email.
If you log in directly to the mail server, you use your ATT password for access.
But if you use Thunderbird for your mail program, it is not considered a secure application.
So you have to create a 16-charcter secure mail key to use the email application, and you use this instead of your ATT password when you set up Thunderbird.
Here is some information on Open Authentication or OAuth and how to set it up.

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Elly