You should be able to access your inbox via webmail at
http://bt.yahoo.com/webmail
To send with btopenworld.com, SSL should *not* be enabled. Check,
too, that "My server requires authentication" *is* selected on the
Servers tab.
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Noel
"tinwep15" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:80483793d8c70a6f725608e7814a16eb@xxxxxx-gateway.com...
Quote:
>
> Gary,
> many thanks for your response and sorry for the confusion. My
> Yahoo
> Inbox is empty, that much is obvious. Please ignore my ignorance,
> but
> how do I "check via webmail" what, if anything, remains on the
> server?
>
> Following my post last night I learnt a little more about Live
> Mail and
> and some of what my son did: he downloaded Live mail and tried to
> set-up
> a new account for himself on his laptop... but unfortunately (I
> have my
> doubts!) used my email address. Why I don't yet know. Checking the
> properties of the new account, on the Advanced tab, the box to
> leave a
> copy of the mail on the server was not ticked.
>
> I'm far from being able to say I understand what's going on, but
> it
> does look as if the Yahoo server is empty.
>
> Mike's suggestion of sending the mail back to myself is something
> I
> tried last night too... but although the Live Mail account appears
> to be
> able to receive my mail, it refuses to send anything, returning an
> error: cannot connect to server, error code 0x800CCC0E. I think
> I'm
> using the correct server address (mail.btopenworld.com), SMTP,
> port 25
> and I have SSL enabled.
>
> Any further thoughts?
>
> Many thanks... Paul
>
>
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> tinwep15