Try to assign a different SMTP server for your Yahoo account, e.g. the SMTP server of the target account or another SMTP server for which you have login credentials. On Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 05:15 Payam Firouztala wrote:

I just tested doing the exact same thing with no issues, though the filter I set was to only forward emails from a specific address. I also added a second step to delete the message after forwarding it, and that worked too, without issues.

On 3/26/22 12:48, George from the tribe wrote:

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Howdy,

I have some email that comes in through a yahoo email account that I want to set up automatic forwarding to a different email account. Can't do that on yahoo anymore, as they removed that feature for free accounts. So I wanted to do that in thunderbird by setting up a filter that automatically forwards certain emails coming into that account.

Problem is, when it tries to forward the emails, it tries to login to yahoo separately and something goes wrong... there is no problem with me manually forwarding all of those emails, but I can't get it to work on the automatic forward. It says that it fails to login, so I have to click that to acknowledge the failure, then it asks me for a new password, even though the old password works for regular email us.

Any ideas?

On 2022-03-29 20:46, George from the tribe wrote:

On 3/27/22 01:48, Klaus Maas wrote:

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Try to assign a different SMTP server for your Yahoo account, e.g. the SMTP server of the target account or another SMTP server for which you have login credentials.

Thank you, that is what I have done and it worked. I am not sure why the TB interface to yahoo won't allow forwarding by rule, but this workaround has done the trick for what I need it to do.

There is another way with Thunderbird, if both source and destination accounts have imap. You tell Thunderbird to _move_mail from one _folder_ to another folder. It just happens that the destination folder is on another account, so what? :-) I'm doing that, just that the destination folder happens to be my own dovecot server in my own computer. I have occasionally moved email manually between remote imap accounts, so it should work with a filter, too. The destination folder doesn't need to be the main or "INPUT" folder, it can be any other folder you create for the purpose, so that yahoo mails are not confused with others. The caveat is that moved mail don't get a header that logs the act. You can also do that with an external tool, such as "imapsync". Example: imapsync --errorsmax 150 --addheader --no-modulesversion \ --host1 imap.gmx.com --user1 USER --passfile1 .secret_Gmx \ --host2 telcontar.valinor --user2 cer --passfile2 .secret_Telcontar \ --delete1 \ --folder temp_g --f1f2 temp_g=GMX_L_tmp And put the script on crontab. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)

On 2022-03-30 08:53, Klaus Maas wrote:

@Carlos Thank you for the introduction to imapsync. Can be run from any trusted system, not just my workstation. No running mail client required.

Welcome :-) And doesn't use any smtp server, and can be a tiny computer. The snag is that there is a delay, it is a cronjob, it is not watching constantly like a proper imap client. Likewise, the Thunderbird solution with move instead of forward doesn't use smtp, and is instant but heavy. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)

This mail server uses IMAP. When I go out of town, like now when I am in Wichita, I shut Thunderbird down at home. I use the one on my computer here to work on my emails. Deleting and replying. When I leave here I shut Thunderbird down. At home when I start Thunderbird it picks up what is left on the server, not deleted from here, and is in synch with this one. The emails I want to keep go with me wherever I go. -- Women and cats will do just as they please. Men and dogs should just get used to the idea.