Email From AT&T, What's It Mean?
Email security enhancements - action required
Dear AT&T Yahoo! Member,
We're making some security improvements to your AT&T Yahoo! service. These changes will affect members who send or receive email from a desktop or mobile client program, such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Eudora, Apple Mail, or Thunderbird.
To help us ensure the security of your email, you will need to change the settings on your desktop or mobile email client program. Please choose one of the three options:
Make the Changes Automatically: To automatically make the required changes to Outlook Express, use the AT&T Self Support Tool.
If you already have the AT&T Self Support Tool installed on your computer, simply select Cannot send/receive email from the Self Support Tool Main Interface to run an email settings check. When prompted to change your email settings, select Yes.
If you do not have the AT&T Self Support Tool installed, download it and then follow the instructions above.
Make the Changes Manually: To manually make the required setting changes in Outlook and Outlook Express, please view the detailed instructions here.
Alternatively, you may take the following steps to change the settings on your desktop or mobile email client program:
Open your email client program.
Locate the email account settings for your particular client.
Change the POP server to pop.att.yahoo.com.
Change the SMTP server to smtp.att.yahoo.com.
Check the option labeled Use an encrypted connection (SSL) and change the SMTP port to 465.
Check the option labeled Use an encrypted connection (SSL) and change the POP3 port to 995.
Confirm the above settings then click OK.
The web-based version of AT&T Yahoo! Mail is not affected by these changes and will continue to be available at http://mail.yahoo.com.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
AT&T Yahoo! Customer Care
1-800-ATT-2020
Dear AT&T Yahoo! Member,
We're making some security improvements to your AT&T Yahoo! service. These changes will affect members who send or receive email from a desktop or mobile client program, such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Eudora, Apple Mail, or Thunderbird.
To help us ensure the security of your email, you will need to change the settings on your desktop or mobile email client program. Please choose one of the three options:
Make the Changes Automatically: To automatically make the required changes to Outlook Express, use the AT&T Self Support Tool.
If you already have the AT&T Self Support Tool installed on your computer, simply select Cannot send/receive email from the Self Support Tool Main Interface to run an email settings check. When prompted to change your email settings, select Yes.
If you do not have the AT&T Self Support Tool installed, download it and then follow the instructions above.
Make the Changes Manually: To manually make the required setting changes in Outlook and Outlook Express, please view the detailed instructions here.
Alternatively, you may take the following steps to change the settings on your desktop or mobile email client program:
Open your email client program.
Locate the email account settings for your particular client.
Change the POP server to pop.att.yahoo.com.
Change the SMTP server to smtp.att.yahoo.com.
Check the option labeled Use an encrypted connection (SSL) and change the SMTP port to 465.
Check the option labeled Use an encrypted connection (SSL) and change the POP3 port to 995.
Confirm the above settings then click OK.
The web-based version of AT&T Yahoo! Mail is not affected by these changes and will continue to be available at http://mail.yahoo.com.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
AT&T Yahoo! Customer Care
1-800-ATT-2020
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Means they are changing names/ip addresses of your outgoing and incoming mail servers, and they are encrypting all traffic between your email client (thunderbird, outlook, etc) and their servers.
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...hmmm, I got a em from them 3-4 days ago (?), but dont remember the title...and just deleted it, never read it, hmmm.
..I know a few months ago my yahoo home page had a bunch of crap on the left side of the page, about "update", the mess stayed there taking up space for a week...and finally gave me the option to close it.
...I never "updated", seems I started to, and there was something in there I did not like, so left it alone. The "mess", still opens on the left of my homepage about every ten days, but I click "close"...everything has been working fine w/o updating it..[^]
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