Re: [Evolution] Evolution stopped fetching e-mails after Linux update

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:03:50 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> > Perhaps at the same time you upgraded Evolution, just by
> > random the Email provider changed the server settings.  
>
> Right, that's what happened here, it's just a coincidence of the server
> side change and the user system update.
>
> I decided to disable support for all POP3 extensions by default, which
> will affect only newly created accounts. The correct fix is to report
> this to Yahoo! support centre and let them fix the server, thus if
> anyone could do it, then it would be much better.

Hi Milan,

disabling it by default is a good idea, also consider to add it to the
FAQ. IMO it's not worth to throw pearls before swine, IOW not to get in
contact with Yahoo. Yahoo tries to excuse their failure by now sending
emails to all users, recommending to stop using insecure mail clients
and instead to use their web interface + to use stronger passwords.
It's ridiculous, they were hacked, because they had bad luck and/or
because they did a bad job. They were not hacked because users
preferred MUAs over their web interface or because users used weak
passwords. Failure of a MUA or weak passwords would affect individual
users of Yahoo, but Yahoo was hacked. That's the whole boring story ;).
Actually I'm using Rocketmail, but Rocketmail was taken over by Yahoo.
For sentimental reasons I'll keep my Rocketmail accounts, but Zoho and
a few other free as in beer providers do a better job nowadays.

Regards,
Ralf