[NTLUG:Discuss] sbcglobal.net email

[Mike Hart]

One more reason to switch to verizon 

--- Dennis Rice <dennis at dearroz.com> wrote:

> I am just finishing a long phone call with India
> regarding my sbcglobal 
> / att email account.  For those who desire to use
> Thunderbird and 
> sbcglobal I have just been informed of a change that
> they did not inform 
> me of.
> 
> First, the email account changed from
> pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com / 
> smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com to pop.att.yahoo.com /
> smtp.att.yahoo.com. 
> Thats ok (if they had told me), it is less to type.
> 
> Second, the ports changed from 110 to 995 and 25 to
> 465.
> 
> Third, security changed to require SSL, but this is
> only for outgoing in 
> spite of what they told me.  They specified that
> incoming also required 
> the security, but that failed, changed it back to
> not required and it 
> worked.
> 
> Forth, they refuse to support Thunderbird, only
> supporting Outlook.  The 
> support they gave me was the configuration
> requirements which I had to 
> figure out.  That is not a problem, but the attitude
> on their part is a 
> problem - they are a MS office only.
> 
> To their credit, I have to say that the Indian are
> learning to speak 
> English much better, although it still has some to
> go.
> 
> Dennis
> 
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