I have not yet downloaded the Microsoft service pack to Vista-that may cure some things, but so far, windows mail under vista does not function with at&t required SSL.

Heeding an AT&T website note that Thunderbird is a supported email program, I have installed thunderbird and so far can not get that one to work either.

I don’t know how many are in the same boat as I, but it has to be thousands. I could say misery loves commpany or re: AT&T this company loves misery !

After making the appropriate changes in Eudora properties boxes, my email worked for my AT&T address but not for my 3 other emails that were hosted with a different web hosting company. After several days of trying to make this work, I finally discovered the problem. AT&T is my ISP and a different company ipower.com is my web hosting company for 3 domain names. The problem was that my web hosting company server and the AT&T servers were not talking to each other. The web hosting company was also in the process of changing to a secure server. This change began in October 2007 and 4 months later they were still changing customer accounts to the new server. One of the domain names was transferred to the new ipower.com server in late January 2008. When this occurred, the email for that domain came through with a yellow padlock icon showing in the connecting box that shows at the bottom of the Eudora screen when Eudora is told to get email. This was the clue. I called ipower.com and asked them to quickly migrate my other two domain names to their new secure server. The order request went through the next day. This totally resolved the problem. Both the non-working email addresses came through showing the yellow padlock icon. the daily emails from AT&T telling me to change settings stopped.

Before the problem resolution, I could get mail via Eudora if my AT&T mail was also open at the same time. However, the email coming from the web hosting company was taking a long time to come through, and many times I got the message “connection timed out”. This message was showing for 2 of the 3 email addresses that I had with the web hosting company — and the yellow padlock indicating a “secure connection” was not showing for the two email addresses that were showing the error message “connection timed out.” These two email addresses had not been transferred to the new ipower.com secure server.

Summary statement: If you are using AT&T and are having a problem with your email software that is something other than Outlook, do a search with your email software name and version and the words “AT&T Yahoo SSL POP/SMTP servers”. You may find a user forum with instructions that will help you get your properties settings to work.

If user forums instructions do not help, it is possible that if you are using an email address that originates from a non-AT&T server, that the address may not work with the AT&T server. AT&T does have instructions on their site for setup for several types of email software. AT&T absolutely will not help you with Eudora and say that they do not support Eudora.

I use Outlook 2000 and had no problems. Well, I did end up with send mail problems a week after the change and worked with ATT who said they were resetting things (?!) to my router and such which didn’t quite make sense to me. But I did end up turning off my wireless router which got things working again.

When I tried to change the settings on my mom’s Outlook 2002, could NOT get send mail to work. Could be Outlook 2002, could be the fact it’s Vista, who knows.

Regarding Zac’s comment about receiving the notification as a business ISP that might be true - I did have some domain hosting with them at the time (no longer).

1st experiment:
leave everything else alone & just change these in the
tools/options/getting started menu:

pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com –> pop.att.yahoo.com
smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com –> smtp.att.yahoo.com

sent & received a few emails from my netzero account,
so I can do this much without doing any damage.
But, this is only half of what att said to do.
A for the ‘Use an encrypted connection (SSL)’,
the only thing I see in Eudora 6.1 is in the
tools/options/checking mail menu,
where there is a field called
‘Secure sockets when receiving’
that has 4 options:
1. Never
2. If Available, STARTTLS
3. Required, Alternate Port
4. Required, STARTTLS
whatever any of that means…
(It is currently set on ‘If Available, STARTTLS’)
There are no options to actually set any port #s.

The only thing I can see to do at this point is to hope
this solves the problem, which will be the case if att
stops sending me emails saying I ought to do something.

While looking for other solutions, I discovered IE6/Outlook can be downloaded & used on machines as
old as Win98, which I did not realize. I don’t want to
do this on my current machine, since there are strong
rumors that you can’t get rid of IE6 once you install it,
but I could set up a second machine when I run out of
other disasters to work on.

Other discoveries while thinking about mail…
Netzero seems to be offering DSL for same price as att,
but it may be the same product with different artwork,
so no guarantee it wouldn’t have the same problem.
Also stumbled across something called YPOPS, which is
supposed to be able let you access yahoo web mail as
though it were POP3, but I haven’t read the fine print

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.