Re: [Evolution] Problems Receiving ATT Yahoo Pop Mail

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 15:24 -0500, David Morrison wrote:
> For the last few days I have been unable to receive ATT Yahoo Pop mail
> in Evolution.  This is a new problem, I have been receiving this pop
> mail with no 
> issues for close to two years.  I have made no changes in any of my
> preferences.
> When I hit Send/Receive I get the following error message:
> Error while Fetching Mail.
> Unable to connect to POP server pop.att.yahoo.com: No support for
> requested 
> authentication mechanism.

!!! "No support for requested  authentication mechanism" !!!

What authentication method do you have selected?

If you go into setup and use the detect-authenticated featured what ones
are listed?

I *assume* they only support PLAIN or LOGIN *IF* you are using an
encrypted [SSL/TLS] connection.

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