topic Re: Two step verification (again) in Email

Two step verification (again)

Phil284 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:12:08 GMT

Why oh why are we being press ganged into this nonsense yet again? Obviously the work around of cant access code has been filled. What is so important about my account that needs more protection than my bank account. Sky frightened someone might hack my account and pay the bill? Or is it well everyone else has it so lets make our members do the same?

Re: Two step verification (again)

Mark39 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:51:55 GMT

@Phil284 well, you'd have to ask Sky.

But I doubt they would have gone to the expense of developing 2 step verification for a legacy system unless there was a regulatory or compliance reason for doing so.

Re: Two step verification (again)

jayach — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:25:27 GMT

@Mark39 wrote:
But I doubt they would have gone to the expense of developing 2 step verification for a legacy system unless there was a regulatory or compliance reason for doing so.

I don't think there is any regulatory or compliance reason for doing so, most other forums don't have one, I mean this forum isn't even connected to out main Sky accounts, and I would have thought they were more in need of it.

Re: Two step verification (again)

Mark39 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:53:31 GMT

@jayach wrote:

@Mark39 wrote:

But I doubt they would have gone to the expense of developing 2 step verification for a legacy system unless there was a regulatory or compliance reason for doing so.

I don't think there is any regulatory or compliance reason for doing so, most other forums don't have one, I mean this forum isn't even connected to out main Sky accounts, and I would have thought they were more in need of it.

Any ideas, then? Seems inconceivable that Sky would invest in a moribund email service on a whim. Possibly a Comcast directive...

Re: Two step verification (again)

piepowder — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:10:13 GMT

Just back from holiday today and bloody thing activated. I HATE SKY - they force (coercion) their views upon everyone.

I guess I'll just have to go over to E MClient - yet again.

Re: Two step verification (again)

jayach — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:34:30 GMT

@piepowder wrote:
Just back from holiday today and bloody thing activated. I HATE SKY - they force (coercion) their views upon everyone.
I guess I'll just have to go over to E MClient - yet again.

Does eMclient now support OAuth for Yahoo accounts, it didn't the last time I tried it?

Re: Two step verification (again)

jayach — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:47:12 GMT

@Mark39 wrote:

Any ideas, then? Seems inconceivable that Sky would invest in a moribund email service on a whim. Possibly a Comcast directive...

No. I don't know any more than you, but I wonder if Yahoo said they had to do something as Sky email users seem to be prone to having their accounts compromised, causing damage to Yahoo's reputation.

Yahoo's (optional) version of 2FA works very well, with multiple ways of recovering lost access, and they still allow creation of generated passwords, and the ability to manage them.

Or, as someone else suggested, they are trying to drive us away.

Re: Two step verification (again)

Mark39 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:07:23 GMT

@jayach wrote:

No. I don't know any more than you, but I wonder if Yahoo said they had to do something as Sky email users seem to be prone to having their accounts compromised, causing damage to Yahoo's reputation.

That has a ring of possibility about it....

Re: Two step verification (again)

piepowder — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:51:41 GMT

OK found an old link that worked

using the AI bot - it states there is a route still to switch off - (allegedly) viz. SKY modify https://accounts.sky.com/modify/mfa/methods?proposition=SKYEMAIL&provider=SKY&territory=GB&platform=...

they send you a code, you enter it, and allegedly hey presto - we'll see if that works as it seems to be a bypass looking at the language used

P.S. EMClient seems to work independently with no 2SV