[NTLUG:Discuss] sbcglobal.net email

[David Stanaway]

My 29.99 Roadrunner has been pretty good for me. They don't seem to
advertise it, but they offered reduced peak bandwidth for 29.95 when we
called to cancel after the intro price ended. I haven't noticed the
difference, but then again I don't leech warez, vids etc...

Mike Hart wrote:
> 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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