[NTLUG:Discuss] sbcglobal.net email

[Rick Cook]

Quick summary, the good news is that sbcglobal.net has not changed anything 
for me (yet).

On Monday 26 February 2007 17:26, Dennis Rice 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.

Maybe because I am still using smtp.sbcglobal.net and pop.sbcglobal.net

>
> 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.

I have been wanting them to support some type of secure connection to their 
POP3 server forever. Don't care about the SMTP side.

>
> 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.

From my perspective, at least they have stayed standards compliant - that's 
basically all the support I need from them.


Rick