[NTLUG:Discuss] sbcglobal.net email

[Chris Cox]

Dennis Rice wrote:
> I am just finishing a long phone call with India regarding my sbcglobal 
> / att email account.  For those who desire to use Thunderbird and 
> sbcglobal I have just been informed of a change that they did not inform 
> me of.

Hmmm.. they didn't manage it too well.  I know we who were on
Comcast and are now Time Warner/Roadrunner had (probably) a
better transistion.

> 
> First, the email account changed from pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com / 
> smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com to pop.att.yahoo.com / smtp.att.yahoo.com. 
> Thats ok (if they had told me), it is less to type.
> 
> Second, the ports changed from 110 to 995 and 25 to 465.

Frustrating they didn't say anything, but this is usually a good
thing.  I know I liked it when my provider started supporting
secure pop (and imap) and smtp.

> 
> Third, security changed to require SSL, but this is only for outgoing in 
> spite of what they told me.  They specified that incoming also required 
> the security, but that failed, changed it back to not required and it 
> worked.

At least you're not on cable... but still....

> 
> Forth, they refuse to support Thunderbird, only supporting Outlook.  The 
> support they gave me was the configuration requirements which I had to 
> figure out.  That is not a problem, but the attitude on their part is a 
> problem - they are a MS office only.

This is pretty typical.  Today we discovered a bug in our PeopleSoft
purchase requisition system where a date field of the form MM/DD/YYYY
was set to a field length of 9 instead of 10.  Firefox of course
wouldn't allow more than 9 characters (duh), but under MSIE (even v7)
it graciously overflows the field. :)  Our F&A team refuses to apply
a fix since MSIE is the company's only "supported" browser
(overflow-a-rama).  Sigh... I feel for you.  But... I'll admit
I don't think Ffox and Tbird are support by my provider, but I use
them just the same.