At 8:25 AM -0700 10/18/2009, tonycd wrote:
Eventually I correctly guessed why. For some reason, a few years ago
another Tier Two rep fixed a connection problem by changing the
username in my email client from (myname)@sbcglobal.net, to (myname)
%sbcglobal.net. Counterintuitive to me, but it
Weird Epilogue:
Talked to the ATT Tier Two support people (the competent ones they
diligently try to keep you from reaching).
Ultimately, he concluded that for some reason, Thunderbird wasn't
recognizing the presence of my username and therefore was internally
rejecting my username/password
At 11:06 AM -0700 10/14/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:20 AM, iJohn wrote:
FWIW, aside from the occasional accessibility glitch that all cloud
based services are subject to, I've been very happy with gmail ever
since I switched to it.
Well, let's hope they have
At 6:17 PM -0700 10/13/2009, tonycd wrote:
2 adsl-99-144-239-254.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net (99.144.239.254)
17.870 ms 16.665 ms 25.795 ms
[etc]
Ok
It's not Thunderbird - if the prefs etc were foo, it would be failing
all the time.
It's not your DNS - that translation (the dig) was
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
IN the mean time You might want to switch to a more reliable
provider. My fav these days is Gmail...
I actually have my gmail account read (via POP) my mail from my Yahoo
account. That way I didn't have to immediately track
On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:20 AM, iJohn wrote:
FWIW, aside from the occasional accessibility glitch that all cloud
based services are subject to, I've been very happy with gmail ever
since I switched to it.
Well, let's hope they have backups. T-Mobile customers just learned
THAT lesson the
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Well, let's hope they have backups. T-Mobile customers just learned
THAT lesson the hard way.
http://tinyurl.com/yzfnwtz
I worry a lot less about backing up with google than I would if the
data were on one of
At 7:51 PM -0700 10/12/2009, tonycd wrote:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
smtp.att.yahoo.com. 806 IN CNAME smtp-
sbc.mail.yahoo.com.
smtp-sbc.mail.yahoo.com. 186IN CNAME
smtp.sbc.mail.fy4.b.yahoo.com.
smtp.sbc.mail.fy4.b.yahoo.com. 199 IN A 66.196.96.87
Dan, here's what I got this time (front matter removed):
1 * * *
2 adsl-99-144-239-254.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net (99.144.239.254)
17.870 ms 16.665 ms 25.795 ms
3 68.250.251.66 (68.250.251.66) 16.751 ms 17.509 ms 18.209 ms
4 bb2-g9-0.emhril.sbcglobal.net (151.164.94.164) 18.060 ms
At 8:56 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote:
I have ATT DSL, connected by wire to a Quicksilver running Tiger and
wirelessly via AirPort Graphite to a MacBook running Leopard. Both use
Thunderbird for email.
In recent days, both machines are having increasing trouble sending
emails. At first,
Dan, here's what Terminal showed me. The only change: my last name is
replaced here with the parenthetical expression (Lastname).
Thanks,
Tony
Last login: Mon Oct 12 20:23:48 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
Tony-(Lastname)s-Computer-2:~ t(lastname)$ dig smtp.att.yahoo.com
; DiG 9.3.6-APPLE-P2
In case this helps, the failure message says:
Send Message Error
Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server
smtp.att.yahoo failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing
SMTP connections. Please verify that your SMTP server setting is
In case this helps, the failure message says:
Send Message Error
Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server
smtp.att.yahoo failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing
SMTP connections. Please verify that your SMTP server setting is
At 8:58 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote:
In case this helps, the failure message says:
Send Message Error
Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server
smtp.att.yahoo failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing
SMTP connections. Please
I apologize for the repeat posts. They're purely accidental, and I
think they happen because I hit return or refresh at the wrong time.
Listmom, feel free to delete the repeaters.
On Oct 11, 11:05 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 8:58 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote:
In case this
Dan, pardon my ignorance, but where do I look for that? In
Thunderbird? In System Prefs?
On Oct 11, 11:05 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 8:58 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote:
In case this helps, the failure message says:
Send Message Error
Sending of message failed.
The
At 9:50 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote:
On Oct 11, 11:05 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 8:58 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote:
Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server
smtp.att.yahoo failed. The server may be unavailable or
It's pop.att.yahoo.com, same as it's been for years.
On Oct 11, 12:07 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 9:50 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote:
On Oct 11, 11:05 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 8:58 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote:
Sending of message failed.
The
At 10:18 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote:
It's pop.att.yahoo.com, same as it's been for years.
The POP server is for *receiving* mail.
SMTP is for *sending*.
It's the SMTP server you need to check -- smtp.att.yahoo.com
- Dan.
--
- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
Thank you for straightening me out on that, Dan. Thank goodness
somebody here knows what they're talking about, since I certainly
don't.
The SMTP address is exactly as you specified it: smtp.att.yahoo.com .
What would be the next most likely suspect here?
Thanks again,
Tony
On Oct 11, 12:55
At 11:15 AM -0700 10/11/2009, tonycd wrote:
The SMTP address is exactly as you specified it: smtp.att.yahoo.com .
What would be the next most likely suspect here?
Double check with your ISP that the address smtp.att.yahoo.com is
still the correct server.
If it is, then next we test the
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