Our problems with Yahoo... ending?

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My advice about XN vs. Yahoo:

I got the latest version of XN, 3.5.4, but XN continued having troubles logging into some of my Yahoo email accounts.

There have been lots of stuff going on with the yahoo log on process, including interrupting logging-on by asking users to make new, more complicated passwords.  Those interruptions get in the way of the "normal" loggin, which XN never expects.

For three accounts that I had trouble with, I started having to log in manually.  Trouble started weeks or months ago, depending on the account.  For accounts that XN couldn't log into, I had to log in manually a few dozen times for about a week, responding to Yahoo's annoyances, and making sure XN has the correct password(s) (new or otherwise).  After about a week of manual logging in, XN suddenly started logging in automatically, again.  That happened with three different accounts.

Even though I was logging in manually, I could tell that XN suddenly started logging in because in the X-Notifier Toolbar, the accounts started appearing Bold with the unread-count.

So, if anyone's asking me, I suggest that for trouble logging into Yahoo, 1) Make sure you have the latest XN update, 2) Make sure your XN add-on has the latest passwords for your Yahoo accounts, and 3) Start logging in to Yahoo manually for about a week, and respond to their required loggin questions and annoyances (new passwords never hurt anybody). 

If you do that, then sooner or later XN will start logging in automatically.

(Until Yahoo inserts new transient interruptions into their loggon procedure.)