[RTC List] Apple Mail - sbcglobal to ATT-Yahoo secure

[Dwight Winegar]

For several months now Yahoo-SBCglobal.net has been telling customers  
they are switching over to a secure AT&T Yahoo server, and that they  
will need to change their mail programs.  It looks like in the local  
area that has finally happened, and that at&t was making the change  
gradual from one area to another.  Early conversion had resulted in  
known file corruption for some people, by converting, finding out  
this switch-over was not yet in effect (locally), then switching  
their settings back.

A better recommended way of doing this to avoid the corruption  
problem is to create a "New Account" in the Accounts window of  
Preferences.  After setting it up then disable it in the "advanced  
tab." (turning off Enable... and Include...).  Then go back and turn  
off these same settings in the "old" sbcglobal.net account  
(unsecured).  Now you are ready to turn on the new AT&T secure  
account.  Before discarding the old account, one might want to back  
it up on to a CD or DVD.   Everything, of course, that one has never  
deleted from the server will still be there once you turn on the new  
secure account.   If any of this might seem redundant, elementary, or  
you already know this, it's because I'm sending this BCC to several  
sources.

- DW




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