# If you resent email phone verification or email does not support imap smtp **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [October 13, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864 "2021-10-13T06:13:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gggvv](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gggvv](https://support.delta.chat/u/gggvv)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/1 "2021-10-13T06:13:33Z")
More and more email providers require phone number or another method of verification in order to get an email account. If you are a person resenting such requirements, then your options about getting a delta chat compatible email account has some limitations. Delta chat cannot remove email providers’ verification requirements. Maybe this forum could compile a list of email providers? The list would tell which providers require which verification or non at all. I have searched for such a email provider list. With no convincing result. > All you need is a standard e-mail account The phrasing is inaccurate. To my knowledge delta chat requires both imap and smtp. A free [yahoo.com](http://yahoo.com) email account does not support imap and smtp. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Trudgett](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/david_trudgett/32/668_2.png) [@David\_Trudgett](https://support.delta.chat/u/David_Trudgett)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/2 "2021-10-13T07:51:07Z")
Standard email accounts support IMAP and SMTP (and their secure variants). ---
**Author:** ![darhma](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/darhma/32/840_2.png) [@darhma](https://support.delta.chat/u/darhma)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/3 "2021-10-13T11:00:33Z")
There is [https://providers.delta.chat/](https://providers.delta.chat/) which is a list, not exhaustive, that indicates the compatibility of delta chat with different providers and how to configure them. Regarding the indication of providers that do not require further verification, I don’t think it is the task of delta chat to report them, possibly you could add it to the information in the previous link, but I don’t think it is a priority, in the end delta chat works regardless of the provider you choose as long as it is compatible and the choice of provider is the user’s responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![gggvv](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gggvv](https://support.delta.chat/u/gggvv)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/4 "2021-10-14T09:43:48Z")
> Standard email accounts support IMAP and SMTP you can make that definition. I would want to know how many people would perceive free yahoo email a standard email account? If many do then no matter your definition, a yahoo email user will deem deltat chat broken because he cannot get it to work. Instead the delta chat website should highlight, that imap smtp is required. ---
**Author:** ![gggvv](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gggvv](https://support.delta.chat/u/gggvv)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/5 "2021-10-14T10:54:23Z")
the list you are linking to is for the large part what I was suggesting. I would want a column telling which verification requirements a given email provider has. > I don’t think it is the task of delta chat to report them That is an opinion you can have. My point of view is, that more people utilizing zero knowledge is better. And software like delta chat should be of assistance on the matter. Let us say, a person gets aware of delta chat. And wants to utilize the software because of the encryption. It turns out, his email provider does not support imap smtp. Then directing him to delta chat compatible email provider options would lower the bar for that person to get to utilizing delta chat. ---
**Author:** ![per](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@per](https://support.delta.chat/u/per)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/6 "2021-10-14T14:39:12Z")
Hi gggvv, your wrong about Yahoo. I’ve successfully set up Delta Chat with my free Yahoo e-mail account, and it works like a charm. Delta Chat was very helpful and reminded me to create an app password for Delta Chat. The difficult part was to find out that that the app-password has to be created, not from the e-mail settings menu, but from the settings menu for your account. I created the app-password, entered it and my e-mail address in Delta Chat - and it just works! My only complaint is that Yahoo is a bit slow sending e-mails (up to 5 minutes delay). BTW a few e-mail providers does in fact support IMAP and SMTP only for paying customers, free accounts are limited to web mail. This used to apply to Fastmail in the past, but nowadays they haven’t got any free accounts. ---
**Author:** ![gggvv](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gggvv](https://support.delta.chat/u/gggvv)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/7 "2021-10-16T18:50:31Z")
> wrong about Yahoo. if you say, that the app psswrd makes free [yahoo.com](http://yahoo.com) email account work in delta chat, then you are right. Have you tested the app psswrd option on both x86 and phones? > a few e-mail providers I mentioned free [yahoo.com](http://yahoo.com) email as an example. You are saying there are only a few email providers who do not support smtp imap or the app psswrd option? ---
**Author:** ![gggvv](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gggvv](https://support.delta.chat/u/gggvv)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 9:04am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/8 "2021-10-17T09:04:35Z")
I have a free [yahoo.com](http://yahoo.com) email account. If on webmail I enter username and psswrd I get access to the account. In delta chat I added the free [yahoo.com](http://yahoo.com) email as an account. Utilizing the app psswrd option. In delta chat there are not other email accounts added. The following message displays on delta chat. could not fetch from folder imap could not fetch io inner stream closed. Suggesting that delta chat is not able to access the free [yahoo.com](http://yahoo.com) email account. ---
**Author:** ![darhma](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/darhma/32/840_2.png) [@darhma](https://support.delta.chat/u/darhma)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/9 "2021-10-17T09:43:51Z")
Have you tried to see if in the advanced settings of the account configuration the name and the ports of the imap and smtp servers are correctly set as reported here: [provider-db/yahoo.md at master · deltachat/provider-db · GitHub](https://github.com/deltachat/provider-db/blob/master/_providers/yahoo.md) ---
**Author:** ![per](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@per](https://support.delta.chat/u/per)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/10 "2021-10-17T12:27:24Z")
Yes, I’ve tested my free yahoo account on both an Android phone (installed from Google Play Store) and on a Windows computer (the Microsoft Store version). Both work as a charm with Yahoo mail. I didn’t have to enter anything but e-mail address and app-password. I didn’t fiddle with any server settings. My experience of free e-mail providers is limited. The Fastmail example is the only one I remember right now that didn’t support anything else but webmail. ---
**Author:** ![r10s](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://support.delta.chat/u/r10s)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/if-you-resent-email-phone-verification-or-email-does-not-support-imap-smtp/1864/11 "2026-10-06T15:04:41Z")