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Re: Subject: Reminder: Update your AT&T email settings today
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Mike Paff
Sep 19, 2019, 3:49:21 PM9/19/19
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:04:37 -0700, Mic <Ma9...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Got this today.
>Does it have anything to do with Agent settings?
>
>
>"Hi AT&T Yahoo Mail member,
>
>
>Good news! There’s a new way to set up your AT&T email account in email
>apps that will keep your information even more secure. Please update or
>upgrade your email apps IMMEDIATELY. Failure to do so will interrupt your
>access to your email account.
>
>
>Learn how to update your settings and apps.
>
>
>Thanks for choosing us,
>AT&T
>
>Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Customer Support
>©2019 Yahoo70?1 Fi?rst Av?enue, Sunn?yvale, C?A 940?89 "
I got the same thing. The links all end in yahoo.net
instead of yahoo.com, so I don't trust them.
>Got this today.
>Does it have anything to do with Agent settings?
>
>
>"Hi AT&T Yahoo Mail member,
>
>
>Good news! There’s a new way to set up your AT&T email account in email
>apps that will keep your information even more secure. Please update or
>upgrade your email apps IMMEDIATELY. Failure to do so will interrupt your
>access to your email account.
>
>
>Learn how to update your settings and apps.
>
>
>Thanks for choosing us,
>AT&T
>
>Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Customer Support
>©2019 Yahoo70?1 Fi?rst Av?enue, Sunn?yvale, C?A 940?89 "
I got the same thing. The links all end in yahoo.net
instead of yahoo.com, so I don't trust them.
Ralph Fox
Sep 20, 2019, 3:15:14 AM9/20/19
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:04:37 -0700, Mic wrote:
> Got this today.
> Does it have anything to do with Agent settings?
>
>
> "Hi AT&T Yahoo Mail member,
>
> Good news! There’s a new way to set up your AT&T email account in email
> apps that will keep your information even more secure. Please update or
> upgrade your email apps IMMEDIATELY. Failure to do so will interrupt your
> access to your email account.
>
> Learn how to update your settings and apps.
>
> Thanks for choosing us,
> AT&T
If it is the update at this AT&T page, then yes, it has everything
> Got this today.
> Does it have anything to do with Agent settings?
>
>
> "Hi AT&T Yahoo Mail member,
>
> Good news! There’s a new way to set up your AT&T email account in email
> apps that will keep your information even more secure. Please update or
> upgrade your email apps IMMEDIATELY. Failure to do so will interrupt your
> access to your email account.
>
> Learn how to update your settings and apps.
>
> Thanks for choosing us,
> AT&T
to do with Agent settings.
https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/email-support/KM1240462?gsi=4w64va
"Use OAuth or secure mail key for email apps"
| We’re enhancing the security of AT&T email. Soon you’ll have to
| use either OAuth or a secure mail key to get your AT&T email
| through an email app.
This means you will need to edit Agent's mail server settings and
replace your AT&T password there with a 'secure mail key'. You get
a 'secure mail key' for Agent from 'myAT&T'.
<https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/email-support/KM1240308?gsi=4w64xq>
"Create a secure mail key"
| Learn about secure mail keys and why you’ll need one to access
| your AT&T email from a desktop program or email app without
| Open Authentication (OAuth).
--
Kind regards
Ralph
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Ralph Fox
Sep 21, 2019, 2:21:46 AM9/21/19
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:55:21 -0700, Mic wrote:
> Sure looks like another un-needed pain. They want to teach me about yet
> another worthless invention of theirs ... I have to learn.
>
> Will this ..whatever it is...even work with Agent?
It is the same as what Gmail and a few other mail providers are
already doing.
I do have a Gmail account and yes, it works with Agent using Gmail.
(I don't have an AT&T account; AT&T doesn't even offer service
where I am.)
There really isn't much to it. Here is the summary.
1. AT&T wants your password for fetching email with Agent to be
a different password to your main AT&T account password.
2. AT&T creates your password for fetching email with Agent.
AT&T calls this password a "secure mail key".
Log into myAT&T, get the "secure mail key" (password) for Agent from
there, and put it into the email password field in Agent's settings.
That is it. Just set it and forget it.
--
Kind regards
Ralph
> Sure looks like another un-needed pain. They want to teach me about yet
> another worthless invention of theirs ... I have to learn.
>
> Will this ..whatever it is...even work with Agent?
It is the same as what Gmail and a few other mail providers are
already doing.
I do have a Gmail account and yes, it works with Agent using Gmail.
(I don't have an AT&T account; AT&T doesn't even offer service
where I am.)
There really isn't much to it. Here is the summary.
1. AT&T wants your password for fetching email with Agent to be
a different password to your main AT&T account password.
2. AT&T creates your password for fetching email with Agent.
AT&T calls this password a "secure mail key".
Log into myAT&T, get the "secure mail key" (password) for Agent from
there, and put it into the email password field in Agent's settings.
That is it. Just set it and forget it.
--
Kind regards
Ralph
Ralph Fox
Sep 23, 2019, 4:06:08 AM9/23/19
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On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:16:27 -0700, Mic wrote:
> Thanks Ralph.
>
> I found that one only need to go to:
> Tools > Servers and Accounts and then change all the passwords by one
> digit.
>
> This is after you made that password change in the ATT web page.
> (if you attempt to go back to that page then they start with loads of
> "security questions" etc as if they are pretending to be a bank.
I hope it keeps working for you.
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Perhaps related:
>
>
> I was unable to resolve why on this one PC (identical to my backup PC )
> seem to just hang at "Scanning for new messages from pacbell.yahoo
> (j...@pacbell.net)." rather than "You have no new email." on my backup
> PC.
>
> Both seem to DL correctly.
>
> Where could the problem be?
A. If they are accessing the _same_ email account, then I don't know.
I would suggest comparing settings.
B. If they are accessing two _different_ email accounts, then my first
guess is that;
* The one which says "Scanning for new email messages" has a lot
of emails left on the server, and
* This is Agent going through all those emails on the server while
looking for new emails.
> I have two email accounts at pacbell.yahoo
> On the second one I have "pacbell.yahoo (j...@pacbell.net)" with the email
> shown in ( ) as shown here.
> Is that strictly a comment or does it have importance of some sort?
That might depend on which field this is in.
If you have it in the left-hand panel at "Tools >> Servers and Accounts"
then yes it is just a comment.
> Would I need to use the same kind of notation if my second gmail is added
> to Agent?
If this is in the left-hand panel at "Tools >> Servers and Accounts"
then you can call it anything you like to let you tell the accounts apart.
--
Kind regards
Ralph
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> Thanks Ralph.
>
> I found that one only need to go to:
> Tools > Servers and Accounts and then change all the passwords by one
> digit.
>
> This is after you made that password change in the ATT web page.
> (if you attempt to go back to that page then they start with loads of
> "security questions" etc as if they are pretending to be a bank.
I hope it keeps working for you.
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Perhaps related:
>
>
> I was unable to resolve why on this one PC (identical to my backup PC )
> seem to just hang at "Scanning for new messages from pacbell.yahoo
> (j...@pacbell.net)." rather than "You have no new email." on my backup
> PC.
>
> Both seem to DL correctly.
>
> Where could the problem be?
A. If they are accessing the _same_ email account, then I don't know.
I would suggest comparing settings.
B. If they are accessing two _different_ email accounts, then my first
guess is that;
* The one which says "Scanning for new email messages" has a lot
of emails left on the server, and
* This is Agent going through all those emails on the server while
looking for new emails.
> I have two email accounts at pacbell.yahoo
> On the second one I have "pacbell.yahoo (j...@pacbell.net)" with the email
> shown in ( ) as shown here.
> Is that strictly a comment or does it have importance of some sort?
That might depend on which field this is in.
If you have it in the left-hand panel at "Tools >> Servers and Accounts"
then yes it is just a comment.
> Would I need to use the same kind of notation if my second gmail is added
> to Agent?
If this is in the left-hand panel at "Tools >> Servers and Accounts"
then you can call it anything you like to let you tell the accounts apart.
--
Kind regards
Ralph
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Techi Zino
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