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Email Not Working - Troubleshooting Information from AT&T

Login and Email Solutions

 Resolve issues like:

  • Password Issues

  • Login/ Sign-in Issues

  • Webmail solutions

  • Compatible Browsers

  • Email going to trash

  • Client setup help

  • POP Settings

  • Spellcheck

  • Mail Delivery Error

Announcement: If you received an email to set up password recovery options for your AT&T Mail account, it is the real deal from AT&T. If you find out that you cannot remember your email or password, we have solutions for you below. 

Top 3 Email Solutions

Using a client? Can't Sign In? Yahoo.com vs Currently.com
If you are having a hard time using your client, you may need to set up AT&T's New Security Feature to sign-in. You can also check your mail via a browser. Sometimes we forget our passwords and enter the wrong ones. Resetting your password is one of the fastest ways to get back into your account.  If you are routed to AT&T's Sign-in, this is normal. Just use your att.net, sbcglobal.net, or bellsouth.net as normal. 
Learn about Oauth and Secure Mail Key and compatible clients Make sure you are using the right ID. Find it now. Still having trouble? Using a different browser or clear cache and cookies

 

If you are still having issues with loading the login page, go to currently.com and click on the mail icon at the top right. If you have not signed into your email for a period of time, it is suspended. You can recover it by signing into it but please note, your emails may be deleted and AT&T is unable to recover them in this instance.

 

WebMail and Features Troubleshooting

Heads Up: Using different emails on one browser may cause issues when attempting to sign in. You may need to clear cache and cookies each time you sign into a different email. A fix may be using different browsers for each email like Safari, IE, and Chrome. 

 

Have the right browser

Internet Explorer and/ or a Microsoft Edge browser older than 15.x, you will need to upgrade your browser to a supported browser. If you’re using Firefox, Chrome, and/or a Mac-based browser, just sit back, and relax.

 

Can you keep your email?

In short, yes you can! Our Free Email FAQs page has more information and things you need to know. Please check out the terms and conditions page for more information. 

 

Email Not Going Where It Is Supposed To?

  • Is Your Email Going Into Spam? Trash? Another Folder? - check the rules in webmail to make sure nothing is set up to forward

  • Hacked Email - If your email account was compromised, rules may have been set up without your knowledge. 

  • 3rd Party Browsers - If you are using a 3rd party mailbox like Outlook, disable it to make sure that the mailbox is not causing the issues

  • Check spam. Sometimes email gets routed there in error. 
  • Not getting an email from another web service? Sometimes issues on their end can prevent it from making it to us. In some instances, they will need to contact the email provider.
  • Sometimes non-AT&T emails are blocked for spam. If this is done in error, check out our AT&T Postmaster Support page.

Note: Some 3rd party mail apps have been known to cause issues and send mail into trash. We highly recommend discontinuing the use of the app and using the Yahoo Mail App.

 

3rd Party Mailbox - (Outlook, Apple Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird)

You may need to update your client to work with Oauth. You will find step-by-step solutions on our Client Setup Page. You'll find solutions below for generic client issues:

  • Test using webmail - If you are able to sign in to your email via the web, the issue points to the app or mailbox you are using.

  • Mailboxes - we recommend using the latest version. Updates and changes may prevent it from working properly. 

  • Rebuild Mailbox profile - In some instances, rebuilding the profile fixes some issues. You may lose email doing this

  • Change your settings from POP to IMAP 

  • Client issues - If you are using POP, you must now use IMAP. There was a recent change, this article will explain further

  • Multiple Email, One Client - Please note, each email requires either a secure key or OAuth to be set up.  Check out Microsoft's support page on how to set up multiple emails
  • Reset your secure key - this has helped resolve issues in the past, especially when signing into another client or troubleshooting your current one. 
  • AT&T does not officially support or troubleshoot mailboxes/ clients like Outlook

Note: For those of you using Evolution and having issues sending email, go into setting and find Disable Settings For All POP3 Extensions and select it.

Having trouble with Outlook, check out this thread from one of our community members. 

 

Spellcheck 

The spellcheck feature is no longer supported via webmail and now defaults to the browser spell check option. 

  

ChrisZ, AT&T Community Specialist 

 

*I am an AT&T employee, and the postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent AT&T's position, strategies or opinions.

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1.3K Messages

3 years ago

All,

AT&T and Yahoo are making your email more secure. This new security implementation, also known as Open Authentication (OAuth), works by encrypting your credentials to better protect them from hackers.

 

During this change, you may have trouble logging into some email applications, especially if you cannot remember your password. You will find steps that will help you address your sign in woes. If you have a mail client, you may need to update your settings with our step-by-step guide.

 

If your email program or app does not have OAuth technology, each of your AT&T email addresses and subaccounts will only be able to access your AT&T email program or app using a 16-character Secure Mail Key.

Follow these steps to create a Secure Mail Key from your mobile device, tablet, or computer.

Thanks,

The AT&T Community Team

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Scholar

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287 Messages

7 years ago

In the never ending degredation of Yahoo Mail, the ability to consolidate mail seems to have been sabotaged again.    I've spent the better part of the afternoon trying to find someone who knows enough about the webmail client to at least open a trouble report but no one seems responsible.

 

I used the "Accounts" entry in Settings to add two other ATT accounts.   Until Christmas Day, I could "Check Mail" and pull mail from those other accounts into my mailbox.   This no longer works.   For one account, I get an error message about the server name, for the other nothing happens.

 

The pop mail server shown is pops://pop.mail.yahoo.com:995.     If I change it to pop.inbound.att.net, I don't get an error message but  get no mail either.  Does anyone know how to get this back working?

Community Support

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230.7K Messages

7 years ago

Hi @athenian,

 

Are you able to change the option to inbound.att.net to see if there it works at that point? 

 

-ATTU-verseCare

Scholar

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287 Messages

7 years ago

I've tried several things over the past several days.   "inbound.att.net" is insufficient because the server requires a secure connection.   I set it to "pops://inbound.att.net:995 which resulted in pulling 250+ (dating from October) over and over, then nothing.    There is new mail in that box but it's now been 24 hours since anything came.

 

I spent over 3 hours on the phone with various ATT reps yesterday and not one of them had the any understanding whatsoever of this feature.   One person tried to help by reading instructions that were apparently outdated because they didn't match the screens.   Twice I was transferred to a fee based "help" (for a problem that is clearly a fault in the mail system) only to be disconnected.  During the last call, I asked to speak to a supervisor and was told that someone would return my call in 15 minutes -- an never received any callback.

 

I do not understand why I am paying ATT for  such inferior service.   There does not seem to be any interest in actually solving the problem.   If an issue cannot be solved via FAQs, the customer is completely on his/her own -- there is apparently no escalation process and no way to actually file a report about a broken function.   Someone somewhere should be responsible for this but whoever that is must have a pretty easy job because the tech support organization doesn't have the  slightest idea of how to get there.

 

  

Community Support

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230.7K Messages

7 years ago

Hi,

 

We apologize about the issues. With the other accounts in question, are they AT&T accounts? In the meantime, we suggest using a 3rd party E-mail program, like outlook, to consolidate your accounts.

 

-ATTU-verseCare

Scholar

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287 Messages

7 years ago

The extra accounts are both associated with my ATT Uverse account.    As I stated in my original message, this worked fine until Dec 25.   Something changed on that date.

 

I actually prefer to use Outlook and do for my personal mail.     I have no desire whatsoever to download hundreds of promotions and ads every week into my offline store. I use this additional accounts feature in one of my web mail accounts (which is largely devoted to that sort of mail) to be able to manage my personal mail from secondary computers and while traveling.  

 

I suspect that this feature has been permanently broken by whatever happened over Christmas weekend.   The ability to add accounts was dropped without notice last fall (see my previous message)  and now accounts that were already there and working have been broken.

 

The Yahoo! development team will probably say that this feature has been superceded by the ability to switch accounts ...which is wrong.   I don't want to be clicking around from mailbox to mailbox: I want to be able to see at a glance, what has come in from different sources and take appropriate action.

 

Again, I don't know why we are paying ATT for such an inferior mail service.   I'm well aware that I can go to GMail or elsewhere but then....what am I paying for here?   Every time something changes at Yahoo!, customers are told that ATT has no control.   Why are they paying Yahoo! anything then?  And why can't ATT representatives at least be aware (and customers notified) when these things are changed/discontinued?

Scholar

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287 Messages

7 years ago

Please note that this page - https://www.att.com/support/article/email-support/KM1010559 - was problematic when I posted about problems over a year ago and is still there misleading customers.  There is currently no way for anyone to "Get all your email in one place with AT&T email".

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Scholar

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287 Messages

7 years ago

I want what Yahoo! and ATT advertise:

 

"Multiple Mailboxes in Yahoo Mail lets you manage multiple email accounts without having to switch between them, for a seamless email experience. It’s fast and easy to read, compose, and sort all your email across all your mailboxes. You can also search across mailboxes and find the photos, files, messages, or people you’re looking for without having to switch between email accounts."

 

 

Scholar

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287 Messages

7 years ago

This is another longstanding problem about which I've never received an answer: Why doesn't the search icon next to the sender's name in the mail list do what it says.   In other words, why doesn't "Search for messages from this sender" do an actual search in the "From" field for the specified email address?   The same thing happens if I open a message, hover over the Sender's name then select "Search emails".  Instead of getting a search for that specific e -mail address, what I get is an  key word search using OR operators.   That means I have to refine  everytime.  

 

This is a problem for anyone who is trying to actually manage his/her mailbox and weed out old, unwanted items.   When I search for messages from a vendor for example, the exact email address is important.  I don't want to see messages relating to actual correspondance with customer service mixed in with the daily onslaught of ads.    What's the point of that icon if not to help people do efficient searches?

Community Support

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230.7K Messages

7 years ago

Hi @athenian,

 

We tested the search here and did not see an issue. Make sure you have the latest browser update.

 

-ATTU-verseCare

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