ATT Yahoo and Windows Mail

[Jackie]

Hello - My Windows Mail account works fine, but ATT Yahoo emailed me:
"We noticed that you are accessing email using non-secure settings in your
email software... please make the necessary changes immediately. Remember,
you need to make these changes if you want to continue to send/receive email
using a mail client."
Windows Mail is not one of the listed programs in the ATT Yahoo link, but
instructions were included to manually make changes, which included changing
the SMTP setting to 465 and the POP3 setting to 995. I cannot receive/send
email with these settings. (Functional settings are SMTP 25 and POP3 110.)
Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Guest]

Hello - My Windows Mail account works fine, but ATT Yahoo emailed me:
"We noticed that you are accessing email using non-secure settings in your
email software... please make the necessary changes immediately. Remember,
you need to make these changes if you want to continue to send/receive
email
using a mail client."
Windows Mail is not one of the listed programs in the ATT Yahoo link, but
instructions were included to manually make changes, which included
changing
the SMTP setting to 465 and the POP3 setting to 995. I cannot
receive/send
email with these settings. (Functional settings are SMTP 25 and POP3 110.)
Any ideas? Thanks

Here's a site that may help you find a set of instructions that work better:

http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=10918

If there are no instructions for Windows Mail, the instructions for
Outlook Express will probably also work under Windows Mail if
they don't call for the HTTP protocol.

Often, just changing port numbers isn't enough, so check for any other
changes these instructions call for.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Make sure you also enabled SSL when you switched to ports 465/995.

Some antivirus software does not play nicely with email using SSL.
As a first step, turn off email scanning in your antivirus, then try mail
again with SSL (ports 465/995).
If no improvement, uninstall that antivirus, reboot, then try mail again.
If that cured the problem, we can recommend a free antivirus that
is more compatible.