Now griping about Yahoo. was: gmail issues. was: Anyone else seeing slow gmail

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2016.07.21 14:01, Mike Witt wrote:
> On 07/21/2016 11:09:56 AM, Jack wrote:
.....
> > Just to complain more, another problem I have is I occasionally get  
> > an email which breaks my pop download - it consistently drops the  
> > connection in the middle of downloading that message.   
> > Unfortunately, because of google's great wisdom that labels make  
> > folders unnecessary, I can't simply move the message out of the was  
> > to another folder, so i can look at it later.  (It hasn't happened  
> > in a while, but I suspect this message may trigger another one  
> > soon....)
>
> Yikes. I haven't seen that one yet.
>
> > Oh well, at least balsa does work with it.
>
> Thank goodness. If that stops working ...
>
> Well, last time I checked, popmail still worked with Yahoo. There's  
> one backup.

I used to have sbcglobal (aka AT&T) as my ISP, and sbcglobal.net email  
is handled by Yahoo.

A while back, AT&T bailed out of Connecticut land lines, and sold to  
Frontier.  frontier.com email is also handled by Yahoo.

I also have a real "yahoo.com" email address, although I can't remember  
the last time I used it.

Every now and then I get any of several "doesn't make sense" error  
messages when trying to download pop3 from one of the yahoo managed  
email accounts.  Sometimes it "internal server error" but more commonly  
some temporary error with "try again later."  Even worse, I sometimes  
get some security related error or bounce trying to send a message.  I  
have never been able to get any sort of explanation or useful response  
about any of those issues.  Worse, it appears that all sbcglobal.net  
email addresses are essentially abandoned in terms of management.  If  
you try to get help from Yahoo, they say to call AT&T.  If you call  
AT&T, once they realize you are in CT, they immediately transfer the  
call to Frontier.  If you talk to Frontier, they say sbcglobal.net  
addresses still belong to AT&T.  My suspicion is that it is actually  
less effort for Yahoo to just let it run until it eventually dies, then  
it would be to take any active effort to close it down.  I have gone to  
quite a bit of effort to try to ferret out all the accounts I've ever  
used the sbcglobal.net address for to change it to something I won't  
have to change again.

Jack