Re: Now griping about Yahoo. was: gmail issues. was: Anyone else seeing slow gmail



On 07/21/2016 12:27:55 PM, Jack wrote:
On 2016.07.21 14:01, Mike Witt wrote:
On 07/21/2016 11:09:56 AM, Jack wrote:
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Just to complain more, another problem I have is I occasionally get an email which breaks my pop download - it consistently drops the connection in the middle of downloading that message. Unfortunately, because of google's great wisdom that labels make folders unnecessary, I can't simply move the message out of the was to another folder, so i can look at it later. (It hasn't happened in a while, but I suspect this message may trigger another one soon....)

Yikes. I haven't seen that one yet.

Oh well, at least balsa does work with it.

Thank goodness. If that stops working ...

Well, last time I checked, popmail still worked with Yahoo. There's one backup.

I used to have sbcglobal (aka AT&T) as my ISP, and sbcglobal.net email is handled by Yahoo.

A while back, AT&T bailed out of Connecticut land lines, and sold to Frontier. frontier.com email is also handled by Yahoo.

I also have a real "yahoo.com" email address, although I can't remember the last time I used it.

Every now and then I get any of several "doesn't make sense" error messages when trying to download pop3 from one of the yahoo managed email accounts. Sometimes it "internal server error" but more commonly some temporary error with "try again later." Even worse, I sometimes get some security related error or bounce trying to send a message. I have never been able to get any sort of explanation or useful response about any of those issues. Worse, it appears that all sbcglobal.net email addresses are essentially abandoned in terms of management. If you try to get help from Yahoo, they say to call AT&T. If you call AT&T, once they realize you are in CT, they immediately transfer the call to Frontier. If you talk to Frontier, they say sbcglobal.net addresses still belong to AT&T. My suspicion is that it is actually less effort for Yahoo to just let it run until it eventually dies, then it would be to take any active effort to close it down. I have gone to quite a bit of effort to try to ferret out all the accounts I've ever used the sbcglobal.net address for to change it to something I won't have to change again.

Jack

I suppose there must be a good pop/imap email provider out there, who's just in business to do that. I guess I'd be willing to pay for a service like that. I think about it occasionally, but never do anything about it since things aren't "bad enough." Anybody used such a provider?

-Mike


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