Fw: Email clients have gone crazy

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 20:27 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: 
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
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> > I am running F18. But suddenly this morning my e-mail clients claim not to
> > accept my server passwd.
> > When I open evolution it asks for a passwd whxih it has never done before. My
> > usual mail server passwds do not work.'
> > Thunderbird claims that my login or passwd is wrong. Where the login is my
> > e-mail address.
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> > My mail servers are those from at&t. When I go ot the at&t web interface my
> > email address and server passwd works.
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> > So I am very confused. Evolution did not owrk like this way yesterday or ever in
> > the last decade. What could be wrong?
> >
> Did you by chance get an email from them with "Action Required" in the subject? 
> A number of ISP mail services have had issues lately, Verizon "for security" 
> changed to clear text for login and password exchange. Read that sentence again, 
> yes they did. They also are threatening to disable POP3 and require use of POP3s 
> (SSL secured), but I don't think that has happened yet, I still get spam in my 
> VZmail on my cell.
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> If you are getting other mail okay, obviously that's not the problem, so 
> consider this just a thought.
> 
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I gpt no messages like thatt. But I solved the problem through adjusting
mu keyring behavior with seahorse.

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