can't access yahoo mail through pop

[Mohammad Rikhteh Garan]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

I'm using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.6
ubuntu 8.10

But starting today, consistently I get the error message
"The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving a message.
Mailserver pop.mail.yahoo.com
responded:problem retrieving message"
 i have pop3 yahoo mail

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: LinuxMint 6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mozilla-thunderbird 2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine LinuxMint package

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Unfortunately, accessing Yahoo with POP is a paid service. Please see the following link from Yahoo for more information:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/pop/pop-35.html;_ylt=Ari9NNE6wYcYE_aUCZyK_MkKzyN4

Please report any other issues you may find.