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From: Andy Hewitt on 5 Apr 2010 11:38 Lynn W <lynn.williamson(a)FOREVERREDbtinternet.com> wrote: > On 04/04/2010 19:14, in article 1jgfujv.1ls2c596diipsN%thewildrover(a)me.com, > "Andy Hewitt" <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: [..] > > I can't find any server status page either, neither a Yahoo, Google or > > help page search finds anything. > > I've had trouble with this over the past few days, usually get the message > Server has dropped connection. If I try again straight away it usually > works. > Lynn Thanks Lynn, it did work for about an hour this afternoon, after trying a manual connect, but now won't connect again. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Dismal jimmy on 6 Apr 2010 15:40 On 04/04/2010 19:14, Andy Hewitt wrote: > Any Yahoo mail POP users out there, is it working? > > I actually never use this account, it's just there for Freecycle, and > even that is sent to my Google account. I just keep the Yahoo one > running in case someone does pick it up and send a message to it. > > The last few days it's not been online at all. I can still login on > webmail, but nothing on POP at all. I'm not too bothered, but the > warning triangle is getting a little annoying. > > I did try changing the settings, as I noticed they've changed the > username from 'username' to username(a)yahoo.co.uk'. That worked for about > ten minutes, and now it's just failed again. > > I can't find any server status page either, neither a Yahoo, Google or > help page search finds anything. > This has been playing up for over a week now. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Says it unable to read server. Fifteen minutes later is OK again, then fifteen minutes later not. Maybe they are having problems with the pop server. Jimmy
From: Andy Hewitt on 6 Apr 2010 16:19
Dismal jimmy <anobody(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 04/04/2010 19:14, Andy Hewitt wrote: > > Any Yahoo mail POP users out there, is it working? > > > > I actually never use this account, it's just there for Freecycle, and > > even that is sent to my Google account. I just keep the Yahoo one > > running in case someone does pick it up and send a message to it. > > > > The last few days it's not been online at all. I can still login on > > webmail, but nothing on POP at all. I'm not too bothered, but the > > warning triangle is getting a little annoying. > > > > I did try changing the settings, as I noticed they've changed the > > username from 'username' to username(a)yahoo.co.uk'. That worked for about > > ten minutes, and now it's just failed again. > > > > I can't find any server status page either, neither a Yahoo, Google or > > help page search finds anything. > > > This has been playing up for over a week now. Sometimes it works, > sometimes it doesn't. Says it unable to read server. Fifteen minutes > later is OK again, then fifteen minutes later not. Maybe they are > having problems with the pop server. Thanks, it looks like it. There is a message on the webmail settings page that suggests they are currently messing around with it too. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/> |