Yahoo mail Should I change server?

AlanYork · 31-05-2006, 16:14

I'm finding that Yahoo mail does not go at all...no bounce message, it just doesn't get to the recipient. I tried sending some test messages from it to my other accounts and that confirmed it. Enquiries to Yahoo just got a reply from a bot...useless.

Is it worth changing my NTL server? Will it make a difference? I'm using Leeds Cache 9 at the moment as I live in York.

I don't know if it's relevant but MSN sites seem to be acting up too. Could it be something to do with the upgrade? I'm on 2 MB and should be going up to 4 quite shortly.

Chris W · 31-05-2006, 16:18

If you are sending email from a client (eg outlook) then it will be on port 25, thus not affected by the proxy servers at all.

If you are sending via yahoo's web interface it may be worth trying to change proxy, as yahoo is notorious for having problems with the ntl proxies.

AlanYork · 31-05-2006, 17:58

Could you recommend a good reliable proxy please? By the way, as I said, I'm also getting hassle with MSN groups...slow to open, click on a friends profile and it just says "done" but nothing is there...minor irritations like that. Today, having got sick of Windows Messenger failing to send offline messages, I uninstalled and went back to 7.5, only to find there was no Alert Sounds. They weren't disabled...they just weren't there and no facility to put them there either. So it was back to WLM.

Is a reload of Windows in order do you think? It's been a year since I last did it.

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Well I tried a whole load of proxies all with the same result, mail goes into Yahoo but doesn't go out. As I said, Yahoo's reply was useless so what else can I do? Do I have to acccept dumping them? Is there anything else I can try? It's just kind of happened "overnight" and nothing seems to fix it.

AlanYork · 05-06-2006, 17:45

Well it's still struggling, Yahoo e mails are taking up to 6 hours to arrive, some are taking over a day.

I have 4 email addresses...Hotmail, G Mail, GMX (it's German) and Yahoo.

Emails sent to and from Hotmail, G Mail and GMX arrive fine, no problems. E mails TO Yahoo get there fine, the problem is with e mails FROM Yahoo.

All my attempts at contacting Yahoo just get replied to by a bot teling me to check I hit SEND or to check I typed the e mail address in correctly etc, etc, no use at all really.

I don't really want to do the "proxy dance", trying to find one that works. I use Leeds 9 at the moment as I live 20 miles down the road in York. NTL must be the only ISP that almost requires you to be an IT engineer as well lol.

I'd appreciate some advice here. As my previous postings would show, I'm not a techie, I just know the bare minimum. Can anyone recommend a proxy to use that would speed up my Yahoo mail whilst still sending all my others, hotmail etc.

Is it possibly nothing to do with proxy servers? After all I don't have trouble with my other e mail providers.

Or am I better off just giving Yahoo up as a bad job?

homealone · 05-06-2006, 18:09

I don't have any experience of Yahoo mail, but find since getting signed up for a Gmail account I have hardly used Hotmail, so personally, I would say that giving up Yahoo mail is certainly an option.

- However, I did find this

Quote:

If you have tried the above steps and continue to have problems, your ISP may not allow its users to send messages with other companies' SMTP outgoing mail servers.

If you have set the "Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server" field in Yahoo! Mail to smtp.mail.yahoo.com, have set your client to use authenticated SMTP, and find that you can receive but cannot send messages, then you may need to use port 587 when sending via Yahoo!'s SMTP server. For more information, please visit this help section.

the help section it mentions, is this one

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-38.html