We seem to be getting a slew of AT&T Yahoo mail sending failures.
Not sure what's going on. If you get an error message when you try to
send, right-click on the error message, copy, then paste it into a reply here.
We can't do much troubleshooting without that complete error message.
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
"Jackie" <Jackie@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:6639A6F4-0273-47D7-AC34-7313799F7A34@xxxxxx
Quote:
>I am additional user with the same set of problems. Unable to send email from
> Windows Mail on Vista Business. Sudden onset, unresponsive to removal of ESET
> security software, deleting and recreating email user accounts, or removing
> firewall.
>
> Windows Mail Error Number: 0x800CCC0F
> AT&T DSL. Yahoo! email provider. Correct settings [trust me.]
> No resolution from ESET support or AT&T chat. seems to be another Microsoft
> issue.
>
> [There seem to be quite a few related postings of this problem, and
> particularly from AT&T subscribers.]
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> "Gary VanderMolen" wrote:
> Quote:
>> There is some confusion as to whether AT&T's new settings apply to their BellSouth
>> customers. At least one BellSouth help page still recommends the old settings:
>> http://support.att.net/bellsouth/asp...2D0d48454ef01d
>>
>> --
>> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
>>
>>
>> "Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" <hhh@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:Os9GkLOHJHA.456@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > Wrong port number, should be 465 instead of 25. Please see the following to
>> > correct your settings:
>> >
>> > http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=287
>> > POP, SMTP, NNTP: Email & News Server Settings
>> > http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=10918
>> > AT&T Yahoo! Email Settings Change for POP and SMTP (e.g., Outlook/Outlook
>> > Express)
>> >
>> > Hal
>> > --
>> > Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@xxxxxx
>> > Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
>> > http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
>> > KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
>> > Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com
>> >
>> > "JeanneP" <JeanneP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:01B79AF9-5AD1-437B-AD84-08F62EB770B1@xxxxxx
>> >>I see there have been other posts with this same heading, but I still
>> >>haven't
>> >> found a solution that works.
>> >>
>> >> I was using Outlook Express on my old computer and my husband was using
>> >> Windows Mail on his computer. We had both been sending and receiving mail
>> >> without problems. Then one day we went in to do emails and neither of us
>> >> could send anything. None of the setting had changed. Last week I set up
>> >> my
>> >> new computer using Vista Windows Mail (same as his), double checked the
>> >> ATT
>> >> site just to make sure I had all the settings as thet require. We are
>> >> still
>> >> both receiving mail with no problem, but cannot send. Here is the error
>> >> message we are receiving:
>> >>
>> >> "An unknown error has occurred. Subject 'test msg', Account:
>> >> 'mail.bellsouth.net', Server: 'mail.bellsouth.net', Protocol: SMTP, Server
>> >> Response: '421 Cannot connect to SMTP server 204.127.217.17
>> >> (204.127.217.17:25), connect error 10060', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
>> >> Server
>> >> Error: 421, Error Number: 0x800CCC67"
>> >>
>> >> Any suggesstions would be appreciated. Just don't understand why it would
>> >> be
>> >> working one day and not the next when we did not change any of the
>> >> settings.
>> > >>