This is always been my philosophy about email servers and nothing is going to change it.įeel free to use the yahoo servers if they work for you. If they work, fine, your lucky, but you are potentially living on borrowed time. And in the case of the server info, the email service has no obligation to continue backward compatibly with the 'old servers'. IMO given the situation it's up to you and I to 'keep up'. But the att server article does exist and hasn't changed for quite some time.

When it comes to the knowing about att's documents att is very negligent about posting announcements of new articles (or updates to existing articles). Can't remember if that ever happened though.

If the email 'broke' one of the first thinks I would check are the documented att settings again in case they change. But when I joined I made it my responsibility to find the server information att, not yahoo, documented for the att email server settings. I could be completely wrong in my explanation (I was in part making it up as I was writing it here), or over simplified reality and my theory could be full of holes, but at the moment it's my best I would say about the time it signed up for your att account and occasionally ever since then? I've only had the att internet/uverse service for 9 years. I believe it's currently probably a work in progress. So I suspect eventually, if they ever get it right, these users will all have to use the att servers. Now I think they are in the process of cleaning that data up which is causing the legacy account users to have to recreate their passwords (I guess that info isn't passed into the new data base). I think that before the 'great unmerge' there might have been only one data base both sets of servers accessed and when att and yahoo screwed around with it for the unmerge they mucked the att portion up and possibly delete all the att legacy users from the yahoo portion. The att servers inquire the att data base. That data base is separate from the server software and servers itself (yahoo still maintains the servers). I am not 100% sure but my theory is the servers need to access a data base of email accounts and passwords to authenticate the access. The odds are pretty good they one of the search results will get you the info you need (just look at the dates if possible).ĭoes this mean AT&T is maintaining all my e-mail on both servers simultaneously? A general rule of thumb for finding the servers for any email service, say foo.net, is to google search for foo.net email servers. The only reason you would need to search out the server info is the first time as I said previously and then when something 'goes wrong' with your email access. I've never had the time to continuously ride herd on AT&T support website to see if anything's changing

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