Subj : Re: my.yahoo.com email and mozilla ?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : jmh
Date : Wed Jul 07 2004 01:43 pm

Larry I Smith wrote:
> Shadow_7 wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:09:10 -0400, weorthe wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> my.yahoo.com allows me to login and shows the email / news page, but 
>>>> when
>>>> I click on the inbox, it prompts for me to verify the login and 
>>>> starts the
>>>> ugly looping process.  FWIW, I had to go into windows to even 
>>>> register a
>>>> yahoo account.  And groups.yahoo.com has always had this behavior.  
>>>> But up
>>>> until recently, email didn't.
>>>
>>>
>>> I just successfully checked my yahoo web mail using mozilla 1.6-8 on 
>>> FC2 Which java version do you have?.
>>
>>
>>
>> Okay, I'm not quite sure what java has to do with checking email on an
>> html based client.  But I'll bite.  1.4.2_04 j2re Standard Edition (build
>> 1.4.2_04-b05) + Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_04-b05, mixed 
>> mode)
>> according to java -version anyway.
>>
>> Shadow_7
>>
> 
> Is Javascript (still) enabled in your Mozilla "Preferences"?
> It's under the "Advanced" options.
> 
> Does the Mozilla "Help / About Plug-ins" page show that the
> Java plug-in is loaded and enabled?
> 
> I don't know about Yahoo, but many web sites use Java and/or
> Javascript to perform the fancy menu/windowing features you see.
> So, the version and state of your installed Java might be
> important.
>

Yes but you won't need a java plugin to just get and send
mail. I don't have it installed and have no problems getting
mail from yahoo. Doen't mean that cannot be the source of
the problem if java is enabled but somehow hosed up; maybe
disabling the plugin and see what happens?


jmh

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