bobek- I'm not positive as I can't check it out thoroughly at the moment, but I believe you can use the latest version of Netscape, maybe version 7 and later. I don't care much for Netscape anymore, but it could work.

--Brian (KCS)

My DSL service is with Verizon, not ATT/Yahoo, but my Apple Mail has also gone nuts during the last week. A few days ago duplicate versions of all my undeleted messages spontaneously appeared (all marked unread, which jacked up my number-of-unread-messages count into the hundreds), and I am now unable to delete messages or transfer saved messages to subfolders. In frustration I tried using Entourage instead of Apple Mail, but in Entourage emailed links wouldn't work. That suggests that the problem is with Verizon, not Apple Mail. Has anyone else had this problem? I don't have the geek gene and am very hesitant to improvise any fixes without knowledgeable help.

Did AT&T notify their customers that this change was going to occur? I'm guessing not, since you had to write an article about it. And I thought Time Warner's customer service was bad...

THANK YOU!!! Yes, AT&T sent me the fix at least twice over the past six months. I had a problem when selecting SSL- i couldn't edit the number, it was just a shaded 993. Then I blamed it on my iPhone trying to check it the same time Mail did.

But your help has appeared to fix it thus far. I never use the Yahoo web mail, so I never thought to enter in my .mac account info there. I was prepared to click "try again" four times after sending an email for the rest of my life!! Hahaha. Thanks again.

The AT&T situation you have referred to in your article are actually 2 different issues. One is the port assignment and the other is the address verification. Once the secondary email address has been verified via your AT&T/Verizon/Yahoo account, you can send mail freely. The other items is to change the ports for secure email.

Both can be found here

Address Verification

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/manage/sendfrom-07.html

Port change:

1. Open your email client program.
2. Locate the email account settings for your particular client.
3. Change the POP server to pop.att.yahoo.com.
4. Change the SMTP server to smtp.att.yahoo.com.
5. Check the option labeled Use an encrypted connection (SSL).
   • Change the SMTP port to 465.
6. Check the option labeled Use an encrypted connection (SSL).
   • Change the POP3 port to 995.
7. Confirm the above settings before clicking OK.

Also, Comcast did this to their clients about a month or two ago and is now requiring the use of port 587 and outbound smtp authentication.

http://www.comcast.net/help/faq/index.jsp?faq=EmailOutlook18533

With all the spam going on, I don't blame them. Their communication of the error wasn't right, but both companies did this. I am disappointed that the article didn't dig deep enough to find the fix to both of these problems and just started slamming Yahoo.

Oops. Make that "Any reason..." instead of "Any reader..."

About that last work-around: at my office that works fine. We have always used the SMTP server of our web/email host. But that doesn't work for me at home with my old SBC now ATT internet. My personal email is hosted through the same webhosting company that my work uses, so it would be great if I could get it to work.

By the way, I followed ATT's help pages and made exactly the changes you outline in the article, but my email sending is still sporadic. I have to hit send 4 or 5 times before email goes out.

Your description here is outdated. This will NOT completely fix the new round of security at ATT / SBC / Yahoo! (although it is a required first step.
The latest round of security prevents DSL subscribers from sending mail through the att / sbs/ yahoo smtp servers from any address other than, say your sbcglobal.net address (if that's what you have). So you cannot send from your mac.com or any mydomain.com mail account.
That is, unless you register the address with ATT / SBC / Yahoo.

The way you do this depends on whether you have your my.yahoo.com online account configured in the new view or the classical.

These instructions work for Classical View:
1) Go into your online mail.
2) Click the "Options" tab in the upper right hand corner.
3) In the Options area middle column is a link for "Mail Addresses" Click
4) Your Yahoo! Mail will already show up. You need to ADD an account.
5) IMPORTANT: At Step 3, Set up Mail Server, click "Skip this Step."
6) Yahoo! sends a verification code to the address you have submitted; you have to retrieve the code, and then go on to verification.
7) It takes several hours for each address to work its way through the ATT/SBC/Yahoo system, so be patient.

Randy Reddick,
Lubbock, TX