Eeyore69
join:2005-02-26
Oceanside, CA
| reply to mers2
Re: pop.att.yahoo.com Mail sloooooooow
I just switched to ATT from another ISP a couple of weeks ago and I thought the same about using SSL. I have never used SSL before for email (I use it with my newsserver though) even during a previous stint using PacBell. As you said, they only give the information for using SSL which gives the impression that SSL is the only way email will work. I am now wondering why they want us to use SSL? Not that I am the suspicious type but ATT doesn't have a good reputation for customer support and service.
Eeyore |
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d_l
Barsoom
Premium,MVM
join:2002-12-08
Reno, NV
| You need SSL email for security when you are traveling and accessing your email account across a networked owned by some other provider. This conversion to SSL email access goes hand-in-hand with the new free wifi access and their iPhone sales which can use wifi connections. Frankly, AT&T should have had SSL email access when they first offered wifi, but better late than never.
If you only access your email from your home DSL connection, then you really don't need the SSL protection. |
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bwclark
join:2004-07-05
Eureka, CA | Thanks!
Getting rid of SSL does improve the email! 
Thanks to all who reported. |
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ELRefugee
join:2002-02-07
Scotts Valley, CA
 ·Comcast
| reply to d_l
Re: pop.att.yahoo.com Mail sloooooooow
said by d_l  :If you only access your email from your home DSL connection, then you really don't need the SSL protection. How sure are you about this? I'd like to turn off SSL but don't want to run into nasty problems (i.e. not being able to receive or send email, and not being aware of it for days or weeks). |
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d_l
Barsoom
Premium,MVM
join:2002-12-08
Reno, NV
| I don't have any inside knowledge about when or if Yahoo plans to discontinue the old 25/110 servers. They work now, but might not in the future.
Some people have just switched back to the old servers when these email problems started and the email works on the old servers, but there are also reports here at DSLR that indicate that the old servers are also having their share of access problems so this isn't something restricted to the new servers. |
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Eeyore69
join:2005-02-26
Oceanside, CA
| As I indicated earlier I couldn't even get onto the SSL server at all. So switching to the old (non-SSL) servers have at least gotten me on. I will wait to hear if/when the SSL server is back on line and also try the SSL settings every once in a while to see if they are up again. It would really be nice if ATT could let us know (not by email!) when the problem has been fixed. Tech support can't help. I once played with them for four days of no connection to the internet only to find that the whole area had been out; but tech support didn't know about it. And I don't know of any "status page" that would let me know about problems. The only one I found says that email is working normally. So it is up to the individual to fight his own battles.
Eeyore |
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d_l
Barsoom
Premium,MVM
join:2002-12-08
Reno, NV
| I suspect that these problems are caused by Yahoo and not AT&T. Of course, AT&T is responsible because they chose Yahoo as a partner to manage the email service and apparently renewed the partnership this past spring.  |
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Eeyore69
join:2005-02-26
Oceanside, CA | For anyone that cares my SSL email is up again. And it seems like it is working more quickly than it did before it went down. Perhaps ATT/Yahoo has fixed the problem.
Eeyore |
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