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bcfromfl @ 27th Oct 11:07PM:
Re: [Services] email outage in Ft Lauderdale

Just downloaded e-mail, and it worked fine -- password issue no longer a problem, and no error messages. I changed nothing, and am still using the bellsouth POP3. I hope this is it for now...don't need these frustrating distractions!

-Bruce
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dlathem @ 28th Oct 09:25AM:
Re: [Services] email outage in Ft Lauderdale

I got home last night expecting to punch in the new pop server information. However, the problem disappeared and I am logging on to the mail.bellsouth.net POP server just like before.

Funny, the ATT Tech supposedly went to their database and assured me that the reason I was having problems is that I was force migrated on Monday and mail.bellsouth.net no longer had my log in information.

I guess the force migration was stopped at the border by ICE and sent packing..or it was never a FM in the first place.

Whatever....I will stay with what I have for now. I am sure there will be other problems down the road.
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NetFixer @ 28th Oct 03:10PM:
Re: [Services] email outage in Ft Lauderdale

said by dlathem :

I got home last night expecting to punch in the new pop server information. However, the problem disappeared and I am logging on to the mail.bellsouth.net POP server just like before.

Funny, the ATT Tech supposedly went to their database and assured me that the reason I was having problems is that I was force migrated on Monday and mail.bellsouth.net no longer had my log in information.

I guess the force migration was stopped at the border by ICE and sent packing..or it was never a FM in the first place.

Whatever....I will stay with what I have for now. I am sure there will be other problems down the road.

What most likely happened is that in the process of initiating the latest round of forced migrations someone hosed the att.yahoo.com mirroring capability or the authentication process in the att.net and bellsouth.net servers.

It was not only new forced migration customers who got locked out of the bellsouth.net and isp.att.net pop3 servers. My accounts had been migrated about a year ago, and they were also affected by this latest glitch.

As of today, I can once again check and retrieve email from all three email server hostnames: mail.bellsouth.net, fpostoffice.isp.att.net, and pop.att.yahoo.com. During the glitch period, only the pop.att.yahoo.com server worked.

<editorial>
I know that many do not like the migration to the att.yahoo.com email servers, but it really is a good thing. During this recent email glitch, only the att.net and bellsouth.net servers were affected. The att.yahoo.com server still functioned properly (at least for those of us who had migrated to the ATT/Yahoo platform). That is called redundancy, and redundancy is always good. Before this redundant capability, if an AT&T tech zapped the AT&T/BellSouth email server during routine maintenance (as has happened before), email service would be down until the problem was resolved.
</editorial>
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burris @ 31st Oct 12:20PM:
Re: [Services] email outage in Ft Lauderdale

I guess they are in the migrating mode again.

Today, the window says something like password at Yahoo.xxx not valid..

Oh Well!
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