May 12

MailBot has been updated to version 17.21.

It is a well-known fact that for access via IMAP/POP3/SMTP to Yahoo/AOL accounts, you have long been required to create an application password, and for new accounts this function is disabled by Yahoo until 14 days have passed since the account was created. Even if you try to create such a password manually in the browser on an account less than 14 days old, you will get the error “Sorry, this feature is not available right now!”.

Of course, you can create an application password with the MailBot checker after 14 days, but this creates great inconvenience. But a solution has been found, and it is OAuth. Using the OAuth refresh token, which can now be generated by the Yahoo creator and checker in MailBot, you can access Yahoo accounts via IMAP/POP3/SMTP immediately after creating an account!

Everything works the same as for Outlook, just the “Generate OAuth2 refresh token” checkbox on the “Email features” tab is now available for Yahoo as well.

OAuth2 refresh token for Yahoo account looks like this:

AEawIGjLwMLD4B80rfvpr9Yhk2Si~001~YApSpi7faQ2Gh1POiyxbQc4-

By the way, to prevent the Yahoo creator from throwing up errors about the impossibility of creating an application password after creating an account, you can run MailBot with the following command line options:

MailBot.exe /apppass:off /POP3:off /IMAP:off /SMTP:off

Yahoo/AOL

Fixed:

  • SMS deliverability to phone numbers
  • thread loop on error Read more »

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Sep 30

MailBot has been updated to version 16.54.

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Since September 20, 2024, Microsoft has almost completely disabled authentication via regular password (PLAIN method) on its IMAP, SMTP and POP3 servers, leaving only the OAuth2 option (XOAUTH2 method). As of today, only a few servers remain unpatched, and it is almost impossible to authenticate with a regular password on Outlook mail servers.

If you try to authenticate with a regular password, for example, the Outlook SMTP server will respond with this error:

535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, basic authentication is disabled.

and the Outlook IMAP server will respond with this one:

001 NO AUTHENTICATE failed.

To some extent, this also affected MailBot, since the verification of recovery emails in the program is carried out via the IMAP protocol.

In connection with this, a new setting “Authentication” appeared in the recovery email source settings window in MailBot, which is a list with two values:

  • Plain password
  • OAuth2

New authentication method setting for IMAP in MailBot

When connecting Outlook accounts as recovery emails, you now need to select only OAuth2, and the format of the recovery emails in the file should look like Read more »

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Aug 29

MailBot has been updated to version 15.33.

Instead of a patchwork of changes for all email providers, which is hard to read, let’s try to break down changelogs by email provider. Please send your opinions in which form you prefer to read the changelog.

Outlook/Hotmail

Implemented adding and verifying a recovery email in the creator, in the signup mode without phone verification. Previously, this was implemented only in the unlocker.

Verifying a phone number to enable SMTP is not necessary now, verifying the recovery email gives the same trust to the account as verifying the phone.

During the process two letters with confirmation codes are received on the recovery email, this is normal.

Creation of aliases is implemented in Outlook creator, checker and unlocker.

Attention! To create aliases in your Outlook account, it must has verified recovery email!

Attention! Outlook now allows you to create only 2 account aliases and only on the outlook.com domain!

The checker now is able to create Outlook mailboxes for Microsoft accounts created via phone number:

"Add your email" form when logging into an Outlook account via phone number

This allows you to finish creation of mailboxes for accounts in format +380983524927:V5p9axnJc, which were previously saved in “partially created” files.

When creating accounts via phone number, creator now updates Read more »

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Sep 15

MailBot has been updated to version 14.26.

Important! For successful creation of WP.pl/O2.pl accounts, it is necessary to use dictionaries of exactly Polish names and surnames. Such dictionaries are supplied with MailBot, they can be found in the “Dic” folder, filenames start with “PL_…”.

Important! WP.pl/O2.pl allow account creation only from European IP addresses.

WP.pl and O2.pl now activate paid account features for free for 7 days after account creation. For example, this makes it possible to enable forwarding:

Enabled forwarding setting in WP.pl account

You can enable forwarding activation on created/checked accounts in the “Enable forwarding” panel on the “Accounts” tab in MailBot.

WP.pl/O2.pl creators and checkers now handle notification about Read more »

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May 19

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MailBot account creator updated to version 12.98.

Account creator and checker of Norwegian email provider Runbox was implemented.

New service is located on the “EU” sub-tab of the “Provider” tab.

There are 29 domains at your service:

  • @runbox.com
  • @mailhost.work
  • @mailhouse.biz
  • @messagebox.email
  • @offshore.rocks
  • @rbox.co
  • @rbox.me
  • @rbx.email
  • @rbx.life
  • @rbx.run
  • @rnbx.uk
  • @runbox.at
  • @runbox.biz
  • @runbox.bz
  • @runbox.ch
  • @runbox.co
  • @runbox.co.in
  • @runbox.dk
  • @runbox.email
  • @runbox.eu
  • @runbox.is
  • @runbox.it
  • @runbox.ky
  • @runbox.li
  • @runbox.me
  • @runbox.nl
  • @runbox.no
  • @runbox.us
  • @xobnur.uk

as well as active access via IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.

It is enough to solve one hCaptcha and specify an alternative email to create Runbox account. You can use “Use randomly generated temporary mailbox” setting on the “Accounts” tab. POP3 / IMAP / SMTP activation occurs automatically after account creation.

Both the Runbox creator and checker support the creation of up to 5 aliases for each Runbox account. To create aliases, enable the “Create aliases” checkbox on the “Accounts” tab and select an exact or random number of aliases to create. Created aliases are saved in a separate file named “Runbox 2021.05.17 – 16.29.07 aliases.txt” in the “Accounts” folder.

Important! Each alias accepts mail on Read more »

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