 AmeritecTechChange we can believe in, 1922Premium
join:2002-09-06
Houston, TX
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| How can I make my migration painless? Migrating is fairly easy and does not require a software download.
Conducting the migration:
Most customers should have a link in their e-mail now with the URL to migrate. If not, you may go to »sbc.yahoo.com/caredslactivate. At the beginning of the migration process, you will be asked your e-mail address. Supply the main ameritech.net userid here. Shortly after, it will offer the Bonus software, including dialup software, Connection Manager, and the SBC/Yahoo! browser. Here you may uncheck the software that you don't want, up to and including all of it. Connection Manager is strongly advised against, while the other two are fairly harmless. After migration is complete, you will reach a blank white page, signifying that you are done. You should now be able to login to the homepage at »sbc.yahoo.com.
Mail Settings:
Your new incoming mail server will be pop.ameritech.yahoo.com and your new outgoing mail server will be smtp.ameritech.yahoo.com. In the properties of that account, you will also need to select that the outgoing mail server requires authentication. Your account name for both the incoming and outgoing mail servers will be userid@ameritech.net. Please note that the automatic setup wizard of most mail clients do not put the @ameritech.net on the end of your account name, and for most mail clients you will need to add this manually.
Recently, there was a problem with mail delivery that caused e-mails to be delivered to the old mailhost.xxx.ameritech.net servers, but users experienced a delay receiving them on the new pop.ameritech.yahoo.com server. This appears to be resolved. If it crops up again, users will still be able to check their mail on their old mailhost.xxx.ameritech.net server. This is a temporary problem, and is said to be related to the large number of people conducting the migration at this time.
If you don't download the Yahoo browser (or the other software) during migration, you can go back to the same webpage at a later date, which will detect that you've already migrated and take you straight to the page to select the software to download. This also works if you want to install it on several different computers.
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 janderso1JimPremium,MVM
join:2000-04-15
Saint Petersburg, FL | If you are using an older version of Netscape (I am currently using 4.8) you need to use userid%ameritech.net for the pop3 server username (% instead of @).
If you are running your own Microsoft IIS SMTP mail server and a smart host for the Ameritech.net domain, to use the new Yahoo SMTP server as a smart host you must specify the IP address of the new server [66.163.171.137] with the brackets.
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 ZupperPremium
join:2002-12-28
Novelty, OH | reply to AmeritecTech
Thanks for this thread. One more question...
What about sub-accounts?
After logging into sbcyahoo, will it be obvious what to do? |
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AmeritecTechChange we can believe in, 1922Premium
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kudos:6 | I don't have the specifics on it, but I think I saw it. Let me see if I can nail that down. |
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Ameritech Tech--Thanks for the info. I have just completed the migration (without installing any of the software). All of my mail settings were automatically changed and everything is working fine.
Thanks again |
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AmeritecTechChange we can believe in, 1922Premium
join:2002-09-06
Houston, TX
kudos:6 | reply to Zupper
said by Zupper:
Thanks for this thread. One more question...
What about sub-accounts?
After logging into sbcyahoo, will it be obvious what to do?
Apparently, you should attempt to login to the Yahoo! homepage with the sub-account, and it will then migrate it over.
said by MSeng in another thread:
Yo[u] have to log on with the Sub-Account User name to properly migrate it.
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said by Zupper:
Thanks for this thread. One more question...
What about sub-accounts?
After logging into sbcyahoo, will it be obvious what to do?
Thing that threw me for a loop, and shouldn't have.....
With the printouts from the first, successful (primary) email address upgrade, I followed These instructions for upgrading my secondary Ameritech email account to the letter, and got to a point where It mentioned Yahoo upgrades, and if I proceeded further by mistake, it would take 90 days (After cancellation) to re-apply for that email address.....
I didn't know this was a combo Ameritech/Yahoo secondary email migration system.... It hadn't mentioned it prior to this....
Cause I was migrating a 2nd Ameritech email account, and not a Yahoo account (Which I didn't have, and mention of this just further confused me...) I should have answered NO to this and continued on.. Had I done so, I would have seen the familiar questions I had just answered during my Primary email address migration...
Unfortunately, all I could see was the: "Have to cancel your email account, and then re-apply for the email address 90 days later" and because I was in un-familiar software, and afraid to make a mistake.... I backed out altogether.... I must have entered the upgrade software 4 times, and backed out from this same location... I posted here....
My feelings would be that a separate Ameritech email upgrade system, separate from Yahoo.. Could have been put in place...... To minimize 'situations' like I encountered....
Cause you'd be surprised how the words:
"Have to cancel your email account, and then re-apply for the email address 90 days later" Have an effect you ..... When you are in a strange software running for the first time, and you are making permanent changes to your account.... !!!!!
THANKS MSENG for steering me in right direction...  !
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i have a few questions
ok #1 i have a yahoo id that is the same as my dslusername. will this be a problem?
#2 i havent seen any emails from them about migration at all. should i wait? |
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 kcazzieOne Of Jerry's KidsPremium
join:2000-08-13
Morton Grove, IL | said by spawn46375:
i have a few questions
ok #1 i have a yahoo id that is the same as my dslusername. will this be a problem?
#2 i havent seen any emails from them about migration at all. should i wait?
1- No...Don't migrate your OLD YAHOO ID...Your new one will be a little different...yahooid@ameritech.net instead of old one just 'yahooid'
2- I guess that's up to you...If you want to migrate, I don't think you'll have a problem... |
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 lskohn
join:2000-08-17
Chicago, IL | And could you add a few words on what happens to the old personal webpages we created with ameritech.net accounts? I understand that we need do nothing to them - the URL stays the same (www.ameritech.net/users/....), there are no geocities ads, and they remain free. Can they be added to (and can new pages be added) under those terms? How much space do we continue to have? |
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tempus28
join:2002-02-27
Comstock Park, MI | reply to AmeritecTech
Um, stupid question... do we have to migrate?
also, in addition to the email configuration changes, does
the login configuration change at all? I'm using a router, so if there are changes to be made there I'd need to know about those too.
thankee
T |
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AmeritecTechChange we can believe in, 1922Premium
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kudos:6 | said by tempus28:
Um, stupid question... do we have to migrate?
also, in addition to the email configuration changes, does
the login configuration change at all? I'm using a router, so if there are changes to be made there I'd need to know about those too.
thankee
T
No, you do not have to migrate, and no, there will be no changes to your login method, or router settings.
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said by lskohn:
And could you add a few words on what happens to the old personal webpages we created with ameritech.net accounts? I understand that we need do nothing to them - the URL stays the same (www.ameritech.net/users/....), there are no geocities ads, and they remain free. Can they be added to (and can new pages be added) under those terms? How much space do we continue to have?
No answer? |
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AmeritecTechChange we can believe in, 1922Premium
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kudos:6 | I have no information on that. |
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About the old page, from what i understand is that they are doing away with that page and just using the new one at sbc.yahoo.com. It's highly unlikely that they are going to move that page to the new one since sbc likes the new flashy look and put money into that. Since we have the notion sbc likes to see their logos and yahoo logos everywhere i doubt you'll see that personal start page of old on the new page even if you took hours to configure it to your every desire.
Of course this is all speculation but it seems logical.... |
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so..... you dont have to migrate if you dont want too? Will the mailhost.city.ameritech.net servers remain active?
Sorry for being so . . uh . . not understanding in this. |
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lskohn
join:2000-08-17
Chicago, IL | reply to Ameritcslave
I wasn't referring to the personal start page but the web pages that we could design and upload to ameritech.net, a free web-hosting service that was part of the package when I first subscribed in June 2000. The pages have urls like www.ameritech.net/users/ameritechIDname/index.html or whatever. Those are webpages that you could design yourself and have no branding on them at all, and, much better, no geocities-type ads.
So if anyone finds out what is going to happen to those, please post! |
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jrbarnes - you are not forced to migrate. the only thing that you will loose is the personal start page. the place where you can look at account info and change passwords and add subaccounts etc....
lskohn - you might want to call in and ask the webhosting dept. about that cause i haven't heard anything about this. since it starts with ameritech.net, i would lean more towards it might be deleted BUT why would ameritech take out the ameritech.net domain??? call webhosting and find out and post results. There is one part of me that says they will not change that but then there is the part of me that says sbc is not the best in logical solutions (the policy and procedures people). |
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lkrupp
join:2001-07-14
Collinsville, IL | reply to AmeritecTech
Still trying to make my migration "painless". My main account migrated just fine. According to the instructions to migrate my sub-accounts I am to login to the yahoo.sbc.com site with my sub-account user id and password.
No go. The login screen complains about my user id or password being invalid. What's the problem? I am absolutely sure about the password. I am experiencing pain here.
If I login under my main user id, go to "my account", well, there are my sub-accounts listed. I just can't migrate them? |
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