Re: Unable to access Yahoo account

From: John King (jgnik_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 07/07/04


Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:15:09 +0100

Thanks for the info Vanguard. This looks like you've hit the nail on the
head - something I would not have anticipated, I will follow it up with NTL.
Being of the retired brigade I find it Soooo complicated.
Thanks for your time and trouble.
John

"*Vanguard*" <reply-to-newsgroup@do-not-email.invalid> wrote in message
news:L62dnXqiQMwgSHfd4p2dnA@comcast.com...
> John King said in news:%23EdFzSzYEHA.384@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:
> > Thank's Vanguard but I think i'm doing right. I have used Yahoo.co.uk
> > all along.
> > My mail sent from my NTL account to Yahoo account is received and
> > forwarded back to my NTL account which I think is what I want, the
> > only problem is i'm unaware of which account the sender will have
> > sent to - a feature I really would like. When I tried to set up a
> > similar system with Hotmail, it created it's own folders, a feature
> > that has not happened with Yahoo!
> > It doesn't appear that I have any way of sending via Yahoo using OE. I
> > really would like to keep all my E Mails both i/c & o/g 'under one
> > roof'.
> >
> >
> > "*Vanguard*" <reply-to-newsgroup@do-not-email.invalid> wrote in
> > message news:RoSdnaiutMSVi3fd4p2dnA@comcast.com...
> >> John King said in news:%23pNi%23imYEHA.1652@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl:
> >>> Yes access into Yahoo with those particulars works like a dream,
> >>> it's only access via OE that I have problems with.
> >>
> >> Could be you are using a webmail interface for one region of Yahoo
> >> but are trying to connect to Yahoo servers in a different region.
> >> Opening an account on US-based Yahoo is NOT the same as opening an
> >> account for Yahoo UK. You must use the mail servers for the Yahoo
> >> region in which you opened the account and for which you are using
> >> their webmail interface.
> >>
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> Right-click on the header columns and add the "E-mail Account" column.
> That will tell you through which account an e-mail was received.
>
> Apparently you can receive okay from Yahoo's POP3 mail server. It is
> only when trying to send using Yahoo's SMTP server that you run into a
> problem. Is that correct? Do you know if your ISP actually allows
> off-domain SMTP access? They may be blocking any traffic that uses port
> 25 to prevent spammers from spewing crap over their network to some SMTP
> mail server on some other domain. In that case, your ISP requires that
> you use their SMTP server for all outbound e-mail. You will need to
> check with your ISP if they permit off-domain SMTP access (i.e., whether
> or not they will permit port 25 traffic on their domain to somewhere
> else off their domain). If they don't, you will have to configure your
> POP3 Yahoo accounts to use Yahoo's POP3 mail server to yank your
> incoming e-mails and use your ISP's SMTP server to push your outbound
> e-mails.
>
>
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