Re: Ongoing problems with AT&T/ Yahoo email!!

AHHHH. Now all ATT email addresses are inoperable on Mac.  Asking for passwords - again and again and again....I am so frusutrated.  If anyone has suggestions I would appreciate them.    Thanks

My expectation is that ATT will correct this error.  Their servers are not responding correctly.

However, should that not happen thank you for this idea!!  If I read correctly, I would access email as I do now via Mac Mail and email addresses would/could remain the same as they would be pushed from yahoo to gmail.  Is that correct?

After sleeping for a couple months this ugly monster has reared its head again.

I have 2 prodigy.net accounts. One works fine most of the time. The other did not work all day Saturday and all day Sunday. It worked for a few minutes this morning then quit working.

It is the same old thing. It keeps telling us the password is invalid even though we know it is correct. Eventually it works. After many frustrating hours of trying to get through and past AT&T service techs, my only suggestion for a solution is to cancel the account. I am sure AT&T does not need our money.

Just received a call from Carla {personal content removed for safety}, Office of the President, ATT.  In no uncertain terms she stated that this was NOT an ATT issue/problem and further they, ATT would not be addressing the problem.  Suggested another carrier may work better.....

Are you kidding me?

Ta Da!

As one recent writer suggested I do (THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH):  

1. I opened an gmail account (easy).  

2. Created a new account in Mac Mail (very easy - fields self populated).  

3. Went to ATT.net opened the non operating email account set options to forward emails to the new gmail account (Mac Mail).  

And, Ta da!  Getting my emails via gmail in my Mac Mail.  Easy peasy.  Thank you Google.

So much easier than dealing with ATT!

Carla needs to find a new job or some new employees.

AT&T has acknowledged the problem here:

Intermittent Login and Password Problems

The original content of this page has been modified and they are now suggesting the problems may be due to user error.

After months of frustration, I found that this work around fixed my problem!!! Logged into ATT.net, went to More Options, POP and Forwarding then forwarded my ATT mail to my iCloud account. I did have to delete the ATT info from all my devices to stop the password rejection pop up box but its working great!!! 

Tell me, why is it that we are willing to put up with this very bad product and the worse support service, and figure out work arounds after hours/days/weeks (going on years) of frustration, and STILL give AT & T our business?

I started my email & DSL service years ago as an SBCglobal.net account. It got worse when they got taken over by Yahoo, and then when AT&T got involved, everything seemed to fall apart. I spend HOURS trying to access my email, thinking "This time the password loop is going to let me through," or I'm going to choose a different option (which doesn't exist).Then I give up for a week or two and try again.

Why would I want to keep their DSL service if they won't fix my email log in?