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Ar-Kane

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Verity Yahoo Account
« on: July 20, 2013, 04:32:40 pm »
Recently my aquamail has been giving me a login error on my main yahoo account that forces me to login via web browser about once a day.
All my other yahoo accounts work fine its just the one ... any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Verity Yahoo Account
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2013, 09:18:23 pm »
I asume it is a POP3 account.
Have you set the check period less than 15 minutes in this account? This leads often to this error.

Ar-Kane

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Re: Verity Yahoo Account
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2013, 03:24:35 am »
It's set at 15 min for all accounts but not less than.

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Re: Verity Yahoo Account
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2013, 06:10:43 am »
Granted you state that your problem forces you to log in to Yahoo! daily, this article I found to be interesting regardless (despite it being related to a 30 day cycle)

http://www.slipstick.com/problems/the-never-ending-network-password-dialog/


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Kostya Vasilyev

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Re: Verity Yahoo Account
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2013, 02:19:43 am »
May I also suggest the FAQ on the site?

http://www.aqua-mail.com/?page_id=227

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Error message: “[UNAVAILABLE] LOGIN failure. Server error–please try again after some time. Error code OCF12″ or similar with “error code 999″.

This is an issue with Yahoo’s servers, maybe a specific one (or several) since they are load balanced (there are tons and tons of servers referred to by the same name).

The error message is returned by the server, it just isn’t letting the app log into the account.

It only affects some accounts from time to time, and seems to correct itself.

Searching the web brings up the same issue with K-9 Mail and other mail apps (Outlook on the Mac, to pick a really different example):

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/k-9-mail/5rYV6LbBWeY
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/k-9-mail/NCd8USGwvqM
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120628042141AAGnejE

Yahoo does not seem interested in (or capable of) fixing this, or providing any info on what the error code means.

Second issue that can occur with Yahoo is an “authentication error 999″. Again, different mail apps on different platforms are affected.

A workaround I discovered is going to Yahoo Mail website, logging out, restarting the web browser, then opening Yahoo Mail web site and logging back in. This fixed the issue when both my app and stock Android Email on my Galaxy Nexus were affected.

Another thing to try is to long press the account in Aqua Mail, choose “Account setup”, then press Manual, and change “android.imap.mail.yahoo.com” to just “imap.mail.yahoo.com” (removing the “android.” part). Stock Android email uses “android.imap.mail.yahoo.com”, while K-9 uses “imap.mail.yahoo.com”; I’m not sure about the difference, but this should get you a different server on Yahoo’s side.

Finally, status bar error notifications in AquaMail can be turned off, then it’ll be just like K-9 (which silently ignores these errors, not checking mail when they happen of course).
Creating debug logs for diagnostics: https://www.aqua-mail.com/troubleshooting/

The official FAQ: https://www.aqua-mail.com/faq/

Лог-файлы для диагностики: https://www.aqua-mail.com/ru/troubleshooting/

Вопросы и ответы: https://www.aqua-mail.com/ru/faq/

Ar-Kane

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Re: Verity Yahoo Account
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2013, 08:41:12 am »
This is the error I'm getting verbatim

Incoming server login error:NO Please verify your account by going to (yahoo login page) (#MBR1213)

it wont let me post the link but it shows a link to the yahoo login page

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Re: Verity Yahoo Account
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2013, 07:39:26 am »
This is the error I'm getting verbatim

Incoming server login error:NO Please verify your account by going to (yahoo login page) (#MBR1213)

it wont let me post the link but it shows a link to the yahoo login page

The Web is replete with posts about the 1213 error. Here's where one post led me.

http://help.yahoo.com/mkb/article.php?page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_ML&locale=en_US&id=SLN5242&impressions=true

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Re: Verity Yahoo Account
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2013, 02:29:58 am »
Thank you @Rachel, this is one I haven't seen before :) Will update the FAQ.

@Ar-Kane: hopefully, validating the account helps.

Posting links is disabled for new users because of spam, sorry for the inconvenience (but then again, you know what the link is).
Creating debug logs for diagnostics: https://www.aqua-mail.com/troubleshooting/

The official FAQ: https://www.aqua-mail.com/faq/

Лог-файлы для диагностики: https://www.aqua-mail.com/ru/troubleshooting/

Вопросы и ответы: https://www.aqua-mail.com/ru/faq/