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|  [help] Message from Yahoo
Got two of these in the past 24 hours in my e-mail:
Dear AT&T Yahoo! Customer:
We noticed that you are accessing email using non-secure settings in your email software.
We would like to ensure that your AT&T Yahoo! Member ID, password, and email messages are transmitted securely between your mail software (such as Outlook or Outlook Express) and the AT&T Yahoo! Mail servers. In order to meet this need, please enable SSL via the instructions that are available on the Help site.
Since multiple email notifications have already been sent out about this, we request that you please make the necessary changes immediately. Remember, you need to make these changes if you want to continue to send/receive email using a mail client.
Thank you for your cooperation,
AT&T Yahoo! Customer Support
After updating the mail settings according to the instructions provided, only my primary account passed all tests. All secondary e-mail accounts fail to send a test message, because of the following error:
"The specified server was found, but there was no response from the server."
All SSL and port settings are the same for all e-mail accounts, so I don't understand why only the primary account can send mail.
I am reverting to my sbcglobal settings for now, since I cannot send any outgoing mail with the new settings requested by Yahoo. | |
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| Additional information:
I found that if I change the User Information e-mail address from my company domain to my personal SBC domain, the test e-mail will go through. HOWEVER, the e-mail "sent from" address is no longer my company domain--it is my PERSONAL e-mail address showing in the Reply To field!
Under the More Settings tab, I DO have my company domain set for the Reply To address, but Outlook 2003 is NOT honoring it.
It looks like the Yahoo servers don't have the ability to support multiple e-mail accounts with different reply to addresses.
Besides sticking with the old sbc servers, is there any way to get this working properly with smtp.att.yahoo.com servers? I have to leave these various company e-mails set up on the old sbc mail servers until this is resolved, as I can't be sending company e-mail from my personal e-mail address. | |
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| Further Update:
This is NOT good. Even reverted to the old settings, I can't send any mail from my company domains:
"Unable to send test message. Please verify the e-mail address"
I also tried it on our other PCs that have not had their e-mail account settings modified per Yahoo's instructions.
I NEED these other e-mail accounts to be able to send mail with my company's e-mail and domain in the reply to field, but as of today, I can no longer do that with SBC/Yahoo's changes. I don't have time to troubleshoot this now, as I'm up to my ears in work and am leaving on an out of town trip in an hour.
In a nutshell, I have multiple web sites with e-mail forwarding for various domains that I operate. Those e-mail addresses get forwarded to my sbcglobal address. When I reply to these e-mails, for many years, the system has been configured to use the particular web site's domain eg "myname@mydomain.com" as the reply to field. This apparently has to be entered under E-mail address under User Information in Outlook 2003, as Outlook uses THAT address, not the "reply to" address field as the Reply To in any e-mail sent from the account.
I think that the problem stems from the changes Yahoo made today that see a mismatch in that information. If these company e-mail accounts don't use my personal e-mail as the reply to address, Yahoo won't log in.
I really don't like that Yahoo has broken a perfectly good working setup. I have too many other matters to deal with and I have to travel now, so it's time to pack and get out of here.
Hopefully someone is familiar with this issue with using multiple e-mail forwarded addresses as reply to's in Outlook 2003 under Yahoo and can advise me how to set it up and get it back to functional status. I hate it when ISPs muck around with settings and cause me headaches like this, as if I don't have enough other problems to attend to--I don't need to have my e-mail go down, not now. | |
Mitchok
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MrFixitSC
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Moncks Corner, SC
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 ·AT&T DSL Service
| reply to disconnected
this may help.....
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My ISP blocks port 25 and I can't send email. What can I do?
For All Applications, All Operating Systems, and All Domains
In an attempt to control unsolicited email (spam), some Internet service providers block port 25. If you experience technical problems sending email, then you need to use port 587 when sending via Yahoo!'s SMTP server.
To make this change, please select from the list of supported clients:
# Microsoft Outlook 2002 (XP) and 2003
# Microsoft Outlook 98, 2000, and Outlook Express
# Netscape 7.1
# Eudora
# IncrediMail Xe
Microsoft Outlook 2002 (XP) and 2003
1. From the "Tools" menu, select "E-mail Accounts."
2. Select "View or Change existing email accounts" and click "Next."
3. Select your Yahoo! POP account and click the "Change" button.
4. Next, click "More Settings."
5. Click the "Advanced" tab.
6. Next to "Outgoing server (SMTP)," change port 25 to 587.
7. Click "OK," then click "Next" and "Finish."
Microsoft Outlook 98, 2000, and Outlook Express
1. From the "Tools" menu, select "Accounts."
2. Select your Yahoo! POP account and click the "Properties" button.
3. Click the "Advanced" tab.
4. Next to "Outgoing server (SMTP)," change port 25 to 587.
5. Click "Apply," then click "OK" and "Close." | |
NormanS
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said by disconnected :
Hopefully someone is familiar with this issue with using multiple e-mail forwarded addresses as reply to's in Outlook 2003 under Yahoo and can advise me how to set it up and get it back to functional status. I hate it when ISPs muck around with settings and cause me headaches like this, as if I don't have enough other problems to attend to--I don't need to have my e-mail go down, not now.
If you are using a non-sbcglobal.net email address through 'smtp.att.yahoo.com', you will need to verify that address:
»help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/c···-07.html
I believe that you can only verify a maximum of ten alternate email addresses per account. If you are trying to use <%User_ID%@example.org> through an account with a <%User_ID%@sbcglobal.net> account with 'smtp.att.yahoo.com', you verify each of up to ten email addresses to do so.
If you need more than that, you need to use the SMTP message submission server which comes with your 'example.org' domain.
Yahoo! is doing this because there business model does not provide them enough revenue to fund the capacity necessary to provide that class of service (officially, they will tell you it is to mitigate spam, but spam is not the problem. The cost of handling the email volume is the problem).
--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum | |
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| NormanS,
Thank you for locating that information. It explained a lot.
I'm working on verifying the many e-mail addresses, but I can see the limit becoming a problem soon, as some of my domains have 3 e-mail addresses ("my name@", 'info@" or "inquiries@") etc.
It also looks like it's necessary to update Outlook 2003 to SP3 to stop the sending errors that occur frequently.
(One of the annoying attributes of 2003 is the several-times-a-minute popup requester looking for network logon--my e-mail accounts logins--it steals the focus, so whatever I am typing in Word, ends up typed into the password dialog and I end up hitting RETURN at the end of a paragraph and changing my password to whatever the end of the last typed sentence was, at least fifty times a day. I sure hope SP3 fixes that!
This is super-annoying. I've spent an hour verifying all currently-used e-mail addresses. An hour that could have been spent doing other productive work. Just one of the many hidden costs of doing business with ISPs. | |
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