pop.att.yahoo.com

[Old Gringo]

I am having connection problems with pop.att.yahoo.com and was
wondering if there are any known issues with Thunderbird and
pop.att.yahoo.com Their tech support are not knowledgeable enough to
have an answer, they only blame Thunderbird, which they do not
support, and know nothing about.
--
Old Gringo
Just West Of Nowhere
Enjoy Life And Live It To Its Fullest
http://www.NuBoy-Industries.com

[Paul S Wolf]

On 9/23/2009 10:08 PM, Old Gringo wrote:
> I am having connection problems with pop.att.yahoo.com and was wondering
> if there are any known issues with Thunderbird and pop.att.yahoo.com
> Their tech support are not knowledgeable enough to have an answer, they
> only blame Thunderbird, which they do not support, and know nothing about.

I use them, too, and have no problems with Thunderbird.

Make sure your settings are correct.

POP server settings:
Server name: pop.att.yahoo.com
Port: 110
Username: use the official login id for your account,
such as: yourl...@att.net or
yourl...@sbcglobal.net, etc.
Secure connections: Never
Secure authentication: NOT Checked
For SMTP:
server name: smtp.att.yahoo.com
Port: 465
username: same as above
secure connection: SSL

When Thunderbird asks for the password, check "remember"

--
Paul S. Wolf, PE, FITE mailto:paul....@alum.wpi.edu
Fellow, Institute of Transportation Engineers

[Keith Nuttle]

Old Gringo wrote:
> I am having connection problems with pop.att.yahoo.com and was wondering
> if there are any known issues with Thunderbird and pop.att.yahoo.com
> Their tech support are not knowledgeable enough to have an answer, they
> only blame Thunderbird, which they do not support, and know nothing about.

You do not specify exactly what trouble you are having but if the
security settings are not right it will cause connection problems

I use pop.att.yahoo.com on the Thunderbird 2.0.0.23

In the account settings make sure you have the server set to
pop.att.yahoo.com, User Name to the email address of the account; SSL
checked and are using port 995.

Uncheck use secure authentication

In the outgoing server
smtp.att.yahoo.com
SSL 465

Practically ATT/yahoo does not have any technical support.

[Cal Tinson]

Hi, OG - I agree with Keith's settings above. I'm not having any
problems. What are you seeing?

[Old Gringo]

In The Beginning God Created The Heavens And Earth, Then I Added My
Two Cents To The Cal Tinson Post:

I have my main account with 2 sub accounts and for the most part it
will time out on one of the sub accounts. This seems to happen from
mid morning to mid evening. Early in the morning it seems to be ok
and late in the evening. The auto check for mail seems to be ok at
these times but when I go to retrieve the email it will time out on
one of the accounts, and I am not sure of which one. All settings
are correct as I have double checked them over and over. This seems
to have all started early this month. Although there seems to have
been an extended stall between accounts when checking from day one.
I am going to rearrange the accounts so it checks the main account
first and see if that makes any difference. I am also going to set
the main account as default as it is not at present. I will continue
to use the process of elimination until I solve the problem.
Thanks for the reply CT hope all is going well.

[Old Gringo]

In The Beginning God Created The Heavens And Earth, Then I Added My

Two Cents To The Keith Nuttle Post:

There are long delays when logging into accounts and some times they
timeout. All settings are correct.

[Old Gringo]

In The Beginning God Created The Heavens And Earth, Then I Added My

Two Cents To The Paul S Wolf Post:

> On 9/23/2009 10:08 PM, Old Gringo wrote:
>> I am having connection problems with pop.att.yahoo.com and was
>> wondering if there are any known issues with Thunderbird and
>> pop.att.yahoo.com Their tech support are not knowledgeable enough to
>> have an answer, they only blame Thunderbird, which they do not
>> support, and know nothing about.
>
> I use them, too, and have no problems with Thunderbird.
>
> Make sure your settings are correct.
>
> POP server settings:
> Server name: pop.att.yahoo.com
> Port: 110
> Username: use the official login id for your account,
> such as: yourl...@att.net or
> yourl...@sbcglobal.net, etc.
> Secure connections: Never
> Secure authentication: NOT Checked
> For SMTP:
> server name: smtp.att.yahoo.com
> Port: 465
> username: same as above
> secure connection: SSL
>
> When Thunderbird asks for the password, check "remember"
>
>

My settings have been gone over and over and all are correct. As
long as there are no known issues with Thunderbird, I;ll get the
problem solved one way or another. Thanks

[Keith Nuttle]

Have you consider there is a problem on the ATT end, or maybe in the
lines to your house.

It has been quite wet is some parts of the country in the recent days.
Sometime water can effect the transmission lines.

Additionally on and off events can be caused by a bad ATT router. One
time you enter the system you are on a good router, the next a bad router.

Try to turn off the modem and restart, this sometimes makes a connection
to a different router.

[clay]

You have your sub accounts authenticating with their unique username/pw,
or the primary username/pw?

[Old Gringo]

In The Beginning God Created The Heavens And Earth, Then I Added My

Two Cents To The Keith Nuttle Post:

You could have something there. Yesterday and again sometime during
the night we had a couple of power failures, and the router was reset
both times. Things seem to be working ok today. ???
Thanks for the reply.

[Old Gringo]

In The Beginning God Created The Heavens And Earth, Then I Added My

Two Cents To The clay Post:

After a couple power failures I believe the problem is solved. AT&T
router. ???