Questions tagged [yahoo]

Yahoo is website which we can use for emailing, chatting, search engine, news aggregation and many more.

Yahoo! is website and service providing facilities for emailing, chatting, search engine, news aggregation and other purposes.

Use this tag for questions where Yahoo! is a central element. However, if the question is not really about Ubuntu, then Ask Ubuntu is not the right place for it. A question about Yahoo but not Ubuntu is often on-topic for Web Applications, though.

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Can Yahoo! Messenger be used with Ubuntu?

I'm new to Ubuntu and the first thing I tried to do is download and install Yahoo! Messenger. When I went to install I keep getting an error. Is it not compatible?
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Evolution not connecting to yahoo

Evolution appears to not be able to connect to Yahoo email. It prompts for the password, and keeps doing so after every attempt. I have Thunderbird working with it so I know it can work! I have two-factor on, but turning that off made no…
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How to install Yahoo Messenger on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

I'm from India and I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my machine since last year and a half. So, my issue is: How should I install Yahoo Messenger on my machine? Installing Yahoo Messenger on Windows machine is just a job of making few clicks and it's…
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Whenever I delete Jabber and Yahoo from my online accounts list, they reappear

Whenever I delete Jabber and Yahoo from my online accounts list, they reappear after a restart. Because of this, whenever I open login, I get a large number of popups asking for my Yahoo password: I don't mind if Yahoo! says in the list, but I…
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How to make Yahoo Messenger work?

Just curious if anyone has had any luck or made any progress getting Yahoo Messenger to work with Ubuntu? I know empathy and Viber and a lot of other work, but there are parts of Yahoo that make it a better fit for some of the people I am trying to…
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Audio / Video Options disabled in Pidgin when using Yahoo Voice Video

Please help me rightly configure my pidgin to enable yahoo voice/video. Pidgin version 2.10.3 Conversation > Media > Audio / Video Options are disabled :(
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Sign in to gmail and yahoo mail by emacs-w3m

I use Ubuntu 14.04. When I tried to sign in to gmail I get This message in w3m: The number of redirections has exceeded a limit. This may have happened due to the server side miss-configuration. Otherwise, try increasing the limit, the value of…
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How to setup Yahoo messenger in Empathy?

After upgrading to 11.10, Empathy is not connecting to Yahoo Messenger. What are the new setup steps?
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Unable to use pidgin with proxy

I am unable to use Pidgin through my institute network which has proxy(for my yahoo account). The solution suggested in this link does not work with me. I did a lot of googling ,yet I couldn't find a good solution. Is it possible to use Pidgin with…
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Evolution does not ask for password with Yahoo

Possible Duplicate: Connecting Yahoo mail with Evolution Yahoo will not send or receive mail. Evolution never asks for a password. I will quit using yahoo after this but I would like to download my mail. Thanks for any help. I think the problem…
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Is Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, Hotmail Messenger now available on ubuntu 13.04?

I am a messenger user and most of all like using all the messengers including yahoo, hotmail, gtalk. I want to know whether ubuntu now has all these messenger version that works perfectly on their OS.
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Getting "account locked" error while trying to log in Yahoo! in "Pidgin Messenger"

It's been over 2 months that i get this error : "yahooID@yahoo.com Disabled Account locked: Too many failed login attempts. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this." I did log in to my yahoo account by going into "mail.yahoo.com" website and…
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How to install Paltalk Messenger?

I tried to install paltalk messenger in Playonlinux app, it got installed but showed an error :/ is there a way to install Paltalk messenger in ubuntu?
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I can't get yahoo mail notifications

I use Ubuntu 18.04, Firefox browser and my email address is myname@yahoo.co.uk I have enabled mail notifications both at Firefox settings and at yahoo mail page too, but with no avail. Nothing happens when I receive a mail. Any help please ?
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How to add Twitter, Yahoo, Windows live to my Online accounts?

Ubuntu noob here. I have a fresh install of 17.04, 64 bit. My online account settings only has Google, Flickr and Facebook, image attached. I saw here that it is possible to have Twitter, Yahoo and Windows Live to my online accounts. Can someone…
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