[NTLUG:Discuss] sbcglobal.net email

[Leroy Tennison]

Rick Cook wrote:
> 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
>
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Hasn't (yet) changed anything for me either but I'm on 
pop.prodigy.yahoo.com and, for some reason, an IP address for SMTP.  I 
seem to remember some problem I couldn't overcome without resorting to 
an IP address but it's been too long and, since I haven't had any 
trouble since then (probably better than a year) I haven't cared either..