NormanS
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San Jose, CA
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Re: [help] Message from Yahoo
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).
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Norman
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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. |
