AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet in AT&T Midwest http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18789728 en Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:56:36 EDT Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:56:36 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18878683 orangecow : From what i know, the domain name @sbcglobal.net wont be available anymore. They are considered "Legacy Domain email address"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18878683 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:05:21 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18852090 someuser :
said by creepy See Profile :

I just signed up for DSL a few weeks ago. The user ID and email address I was given was @att.net.
I had a friend who signed up for AT&T Yahoo in June and she got an @att.net address. She signed up with those door-to-door sales men who were pushing DSL and satellite. She had never been a Worldnet subscriber.

Then, a coworker signed up for AT&T Yahoo in July and was given an @sbcglobal.net address. He tried to use the web site, but wound up calling in. (He was a win back from Cable and VOIP.) Although he never had DSL at his residence, he was a DSL small business customer at another address.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18852090 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:20:54 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18850651 nick11 :
said by d_l See Profile :

If someone had moved their @att.net account as suggested by that FAQ, they wouldn't have been able to get their mail this past 10 days off the Yahoo-operated servers! The whole point of my statement is that you DON'T want to move from a reliable, secure, email service to a dysfunctional email provider, Yahoo!
Oh, I see. You mean the e-mail messages, not the account itself!

said by d_l See Profile :

You missed what I was saying in that statement:

quote:
To keep your @att.net accounts on the Worldnet-operated servers ...
I read it, I just thought you meant 'to keep the account on the @att.net servers.'

I didn't understand you meant 'to keep the e-mail messages on the @att.net servers.']]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18850651 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:07:17 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18850000 NormanS :
said by nick11 See Profile :

If you have AT&T Yahoo you don't have to pay anything to keep your @att.net e-mail accounts.

And you don't have to dial in the Worldnet servers to retrieve your @att.net e-mail. You can do it from your AT&T Yahoo account just fine.
If you don't want Yahoo! servers to handle your email, you don't want 'at&t Yahoo' HSI'. Or, for AT&T Worldnet users, you use 'at&t Yahoo! HSI' for your DSL connection, but you don't migrate your AT&T Worldnet ID to 'at&t Yahoo! HSI'.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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quote:
To keep your @att.net accounts on the Worldnet-operated servers ...


If someone had moved their @att.net account as suggested by that FAQ, they wouldn't have been able to get their mail this past 10 days off the Yahoo-operated servers! The whole point of my statement is that you DON'T want to move from a reliable, secure, email service to a dysfunctional email provider, Yahoo!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18849995 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:29:02 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18849917 nick11 :
said by d_l See Profile :

To keep your @att.net accounts on the Worldnet-operated servers, you would have to pay $6/mo for the Bring-Your-Own-Access plan that they offer (or maybe only used to offer as I haven't checked recently if it is still available). I use that plan and the Worldnet servers are problem free compared to the Yahoo servers. I've seen maybe one brief outage in 5 years.

The other advantage of paying for that BYOA plan is you can still set up 25 MB personal web pages for each email account
If you have AT&T Yahoo you don't have to pay anything to keep your @att.net e-mail accounts.

And you don't have to dial in the Worldnet servers to retrieve your @att.net e-mail. You can do it from your AT&T Yahoo account just fine.

»Ameritech - SBC FAQ »Migration information for ATT Worldnet members

I've been doing it for a couple years now.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18849917 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:18:09 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18793645 NormanS :
said by spectre1000 See Profile :

Part of the point of keeping my email was to not have Yahoo.
You can't get at&t Yahoo! HSI without getting Yahoo!. But you don't have to use the Yahoo! SMTP servers. I just switched back to 'smtpauth.sbcglobal.net' after evaluating the function of the latest update to Mercury/32 (v.4.51), which added SSL capability to the SMTP relay client. I don't really need SSL, so 'smtpauth.sbcglobal.net' works well enough for me.

Alas, you do have to use the Yahoo! POP3 servers, and they appear to be really flaky at this time.

FWIW, my email domain is, 'pacbell.net'.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18793645 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:59:37 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18793114 d_l : To keep your @att.net accounts on the Worldnet-operated servers, you would have to pay $6/mo for the Bring-Your-Own-Access plan that they offer (or maybe only used to offer as I haven't checked recently if it is still available). I use that plan and the Worldnet servers are problem free compared to the Yahoo servers. I've seen maybe one brief outage in 5 years.

The other advantage of paying for that BYOA plan is you can still set up 25 MB personal web pages for each email account ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18793114 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:39:04 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18792998 spectre1000 :
said by d_l See Profile :

Although other than saving money, for the life of me, I can't imagine why someone would want to cut the quality and reliability of their email service by doing that. :huh:
I just signed up for DSL and am retaining my att.net email. I was told I would go to the same URL and everything would be exactly the same. Not that I know enough about servers to say, but I would think if it's at the same URL, it's on the same server. No? Part of the point of keeping my email was to not have Yahoo.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18792998 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:24:15 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18792894 creepy : ATT Yahoo]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18792894 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:06:20 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18791889 robinth :
said by creepy See Profile :

I just signed up for DSL a few weeks ago. The user ID and email address I was given was @att.net.
Who from? ATT-Yahoo or ATT Worldnet?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18791889 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:33:03 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18791104 creepy : I just signed up for DSL a few weeks ago. The user ID and email address I was given was @att.net. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18791104 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:27:05 EDT Re: AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18790140 d_l : I think that @att.net domain has been used for Worldnet customers, either dial up, DSL, or BYOA, who have now become AT&T-Yahoo customers and want to retain their Worldnet email addresses by transferring their email service from the Worldnet-operated servers to the Yahoo-operated servers.

Although other than saving money, for the life of me, I can't imagine why someone would want to cut the quality and reliability of their email service by doing that. :huh:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18790140 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:04:18 EDT AT&T email--Yahoo vs. Worldnet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18789728 robinth :
I note on the ATT Yahoo POP server settings help page, that one of the domains using the pop.att.yahoo.com server is listed as MemberID@att.net.

att.net in the past has been used solely by AT&T Worldnet, the ISP started by AT&T long before the SBC takeover. Originally a dialup ISP, it now offers DSL via Covad, and perhaps other, vendors.

Is AT&T Yahoo also issuing att.net addresses to new customers?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18789728 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:59:11 EDT