No Thunderbird access now Yahoo password changed

Hi
Was advised by BT to change my BT yahoo password. I did this and although I can access my emails direct through BT Yahoo, I can no longer access them in Thunderbird. I get a message saying
"Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server mail.btinternet.com responded. Error logging in. Please visit http://mail.yahoo.com"
This is the 2nd time this has happened. Clearly the first fix BT sorted gets lost as soon as the password is changed again. Anyone else have this problem? Is there a permanent fix?
Thanks
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Thunderbird will be unaware of your password change and will keep using your old password and fail.
You need to go into the account settings within Thunderbird and change the saved password so that it matches your new one, by overwriting the old one.
Thunderbird will then use the new password when it tries to get your mail.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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