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Friday, January 19th, 2018 3:38 AM

inbound.att.net is not responding

I have a ATT/Yahoo email address. The inbound.att.net server is not responding. I have tried pinging it with 3rd party connection sites (is it down and web site down) neither can connect to it. Is it down says that it may be down for a week. Any one know what the problem might be.

 

Thanks

Pete 

Scholar

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235 Messages

5 years ago

It will probably start working again for you before too long.

Community Support

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2.7K Messages

5 years ago

Hi,

 

There could be an issue with the server that is keeping you from accessing your E-mail. We are usually really quick to fix these type of issues. If you still can't access your E-mails after 12 hours, try these troubleshooting steps.

 

David, AT&T Community Specialist

Scholar

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235 Messages

5 years ago

David, thank you for replying.

Did you remove the SOLVED advisory as this problem is still occurring.
And, yes, we know that various options that might work but rarely do.

Please remove the SOLVED flag is you haven't already.

Thank you.

. . . Pete

Tutor

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6 Messages

5 years ago

Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't.

Scholar

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235 Messages

5 years ago

Re: inbound.att.net is not responding
David, thank you for replying.

Did you remove the SOLVED advisory as this problem is still occurring.
And, yes, we know that various options that might work but rarely do.

Please remove the SOLVED flag is you haven't already.

Thank you.

. . . Pete

Teacher

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27 Messages

5 years ago

Someone needs to tell David, AT&T Community Specialist that this has been going on for many months not 12 hours.

Scholar

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235 Messages

5 years ago

@ATTHelpForums

 

David, please tell us why you have not removed the "SOLVED" designation for this thread.

 

The problem is still occurring.

 

. . . .   Pete

 

Voyager

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3 Messages

5 years ago

The problem is still occurring on my wife's POP3 email ,(windows 7,Seamonky email)I can log on to her web email but every time she tries to get her mail on her computer it says "server error try later" she only knows how to get her POP3 email. Has it been changed to Imap or something? I have a friend down the road and he just got ATT DSL windows 7 ,Windows live mail and is having the same problem.

 

Contributor

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2 Messages

5 years ago

There are actually two (2) different UNSOLVED problems.

 

1. As I documented earlier in this thread, by using a Linux DNS tool I was able to determine that inbound.att.net resolves to multiple (at least 3) different IP addresses.  Which one you get depends on which one their DNS resolver chooses to give you.  At least one of those server is bad, or at least frequently bad, and email clients simply cannot connect to it at all if the DNS resolver happens to hand you that one.  It just isn't there.  For myself, I fixed this by getting rid of inbound.att.net in my client settings, and instead hard-coding 74.6.106.29.  74.6.106.29 seems to be responsive most or all of the time.

 

2. The second problem is that sometimes you can connect to a server, but it gives the  "server error try later" error.  This is even with 6.4.106.29, and only certain email addresses.  There is one of mine that goes out for hours at a time, while my other sub-accounts still work.

 

I really wonder if we should start two new threads, not marked "Solved", one for each of these issues.  For me, these issues started in October or November 2017, and have been festering non-stop since.

 

 

Scholar

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235 Messages

5 years ago

I don't see how it can hurt anything to have another thread besides the
new one I created; however, it appears that AT&T has elected to not be
responsive with respect to these problems (which fact seems very
out-of-character for AT&T).
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