| POP 3 Email Checking For a long time I have used only Gmail as my address. I receive my monthly DSL bill at Gmail and all seems fine. I have Gmail set to POP to pickup my AT&T address email. I just noticed apparently for sometime the attempts to connect have failed. Well after forty-five minutes banging my head against the keyboard and failing I'm wondering how important is it to occasionally pick up mail from your AT&T email if you don't ever use it and AT&T has an alternate Email address for you. If it is not Important I will just quit trying.
Note I think my AT&T DSL (Dry Loop) is through Yahoo if that matters. |
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naelme
join:2012-12-06
Baton Rouge, LA | your dry loop is through yahoo?
i don't even understand what that means. you are on ipdslam or old dsl?
dry loop is a line not shared with a pots line. |
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| Not sure what you are not sure of but yes old style DSL. Been a while since I got rid of POTS and couldn't remember the exact details but from the paper work it was done through Yahoo DSL.
My question though is do I ever even need to check my AT&T Email account if I do not use it? |
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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said by ray2047:Note I think my AT&T DSL (Dry Loop) is through Yahoo if that matters.
The DSL connection has nothing to do with Yahoo!
Legacy ADSL (branded as, "SBC Yahoo! DSL Service/at&t Yahoo! HSI") goes through an AT&T DSLAM, over an AT&T ATM circuit to an AT&T aggregation router.
ADSL2+/VDSL (branded as, "U-verse HSI") goes through an AT&T DSLAM over an AT&T PTM circuit to an AT&T aggregation.
In both cases, your packets are riding AT&T transit from the modem to the AT&T peering routers.
In 2002, about 2 1/2 years before SBC bought AT&T, SBC outsourced email to Yahoo! So only the email is "through Yahoo!". This partnership is the source of the "Yahoo!" branding of SBC/AT&T DSL service; but Yahoo! only handles the email, they do not touch the DSL.
The Yahoo! POP3 servers have a long history of flakiness for AT&T customers.
My question though is do I ever even need to check my AT&T Email account if I do not use it?
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| Thanks, that is what I needed to know. |
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