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

[Michael Welch]

Just talked to AT&T as a result of filing an online email ticket yesterday.

The techie said that as of yesterday, they are finally admitting there is a problem, and they are calling it a "network outage."

They recommended that I go back to the old mail server settings until they get the problem fixed.

I asked how long the old settings would work, and the tech said, "we were informed they would work until the end of August."

I have been very satisfied with my assigned IP DSL service from SBC. But the under the new ownership, we shall see.

Peace.

Michael Welch wrote at 10:22 AM 08/04/2007:
 
>But now that I have switched, I am regularly getting both time outs and "cannot connect" errors from the new servers, even though my timeout settings are pretty high (300 seconds). I'd estimate that this is happening to about 25-50% of my mail checks. 
>
>It is really a drag to have this degraded service. Sometimes I suspect that the servers are set to only allow so many mail checks per client IP in a given amount of time. But my telecommute requires that I really stay on top of my email, and I am checking two sbcglobal.net email addresses each time I check mail. So either way, bad server performance or limiting POP checks, this has been frustrating for me.
>
>SSL is nice, but jiminy, AT&T, get your shift together.


- - - - - - - - - - - -
Michael Welch, volunteer
Redwood Alliance
PO Box 293
Arcata, CA 95518
707-822-7884
mwelch at redwoodalliance.org
www.redwoodalliance.org