error message in windows mail

Gary VanderMolen (MVP) wrote:
> Follow-up: I've been checking into this some more, and there are
> widespread reports of the AT&T/Yahoo mail server malfunctioning.
> It is not affecting all AT&T customers. One workaround is to change
> the incoming server port from 995 to 110. That should also uncheck
> the SSL option.
>

That should help a few people. Thanks.

--
norm

The dslreports.com web site however is not an AT&T forum in the sense that
it is not in the AT&T web site and is independent of AT&T . That forum is
however useful, as is many other forums in dslreports.com web site.
Unfortunately most AT&T customers would not know about that forum. Verizon
for example has forums at forums.verizon.com that are available to anyone;
at least on a read-only basis. The Verizon programmers are lousy so the
Verizon forums and Verizon web sites don't work very well but otherwise they
are useful.



"Gary VanderMolen (MVP)" <> wrote in message
news:...
Yes, there are AT&T forums:
http://www.dslreports.com/forums/58

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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/def...le/vandermolen


"Sam Hobbs" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Does ATT have forums for it's customers to help each other? That is
> usually
> the best way to determine if an ISP is having problems; if they are having
> problems and have forums for use by their customers, then many people
> would
> be affected and people will post messages in the ISP's forums.
>
>
> "Scott Stieg" <> wrote in message
> news:A4C36F0A-2EB5-4D27-83E7-...
>>I had the same thing happen; on about Fri 20 Nov I began to receive an
>>error
>> message when I tried to get mail from my ATT Yahoo mail account. In the
>> past,
>> I get the usual runaround from ATT who claim that Microsoft Mail "is a
>> new
>> program and not fully tested, check with MS". I flounder around resetting
>> everything and then it suddenly is OK, but not this time. I've checked
>> all
>> the settings (which I never changed) four times, and the connection to
>> the
>> Internet works OK, so there is no modem or server problem. So, who's
>> problem
>> is this?
>>
>> Here is the error message:
>> Account: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', Server: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', Protocol:
>> POP3,
>> Server Response: '-ERR popgate unknown command', Port: 995, Secure(SSL):
>> Yes,
>> Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC18
>>
>> "JFC" wrote:
>>
>>> I have att uverse and have been using windows mail for some time to get
>>> my
>>> emails from att-yahoo. I began recieveing an error message today and
>>> after
>>> checking all of the settings with att they say it must be a problem with
>>> windows mail. What next? Can I just reinstall windows mail as it is
>>> free
>>> (my wife is used to it so I hate to change it) can I do that with out
>>> losing
>>> all of my emails currently in there along with my contacts in other
>>> words
>>> willit just write over the old windows mail and hopefully correct the
>>> problem?
>>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>> thanks
>

"norm" <> wrote in message news:%...
> Gary VanderMolen (MVP) wrote:
>> Follow-up: I've been checking into this some more, and there are
>> widespread reports of the AT&T/Yahoo mail server malfunctioning.
>> It is not affecting all AT&T customers. One workaround is to change
>> the incoming server port from 995 to 110. That should also uncheck
>> the SSL option.
>>
>
> That should help a few people. Thanks.

Thanks for alerting us to this outage.
Reports say this server issue was fixed last night.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/def...le/vandermolen

"Gary VanderMolen (MVP)" <> wrote in message
news:...
Yes, there are AT&T forums:
http://www.dslreports.com/forums/58

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/def...le/vandermolen


"Sam Hobbs" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Does ATT have forums for it's customers to help each other? That is
> usually
> the best way to determine if an ISP is having problems; if they are having
> problems and have forums for use by their customers, then many people
> would
> be affected and people will post messages in the ISP's forums.
>
>
> "Scott Stieg" <> wrote in message
> news:A4C36F0A-2EB5-4D27-83E7-...
>>I had the same thing happen; on about Fri 20 Nov I began to receive an
>>error
>> message when I tried to get mail from my ATT Yahoo mail account. In the
>> past,
>> I get the usual runaround from ATT who claim that Microsoft Mail "is a
>> new
>> program and not fully tested, check with MS". I flounder around resetting
>> everything and then it suddenly is OK, but not this time. I've checked
>> all
>> the settings (which I never changed) four times, and the connection to
>> the
>> Internet works OK, so there is no modem or server problem. So, who's
>> problem
>> is this?
>>
>> Here is the error message:
>> Account: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', Server: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', Protocol:
>> POP3,
>> Server Response: '-ERR popgate unknown command', Port: 995, Secure(SSL):
>> Yes,
>> Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC18
>>
>> "JFC" wrote:
>>
>>> I have att uverse and have been using windows mail for some time to get
>>> my
>>> emails from att-yahoo. I began recieveing an error message today and
>>> after
>>> checking all of the settings with att they say it must be a problem with
>>> windows mail. What next? Can I just reinstall windows mail as it is
>>> free
>>> (my wife is used to it so I hate to change it) can I do that with out
>>> losing
>>> all of my emails currently in there along with my contacts in other
>>> words
>>> willit just write over the old windows mail and hopefully correct the
>>> problem?
>>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>> thanks
>Hi