JollyJo wrote:
> Yesterday I spent some time in an ATT Chat session about TBird not been
> able to Send
> emails from all of my email addresses except one. I was told about the
> process on the
> Yahoo web site and I went through the steps for two email addresses,
> while my chatter advised me. Neither effort sent any verification mail
> to TBird. I left it for a few hours and came back again and went
> through the same two processes. They seemed to work - at least TBird
> recieved a verification email. I then went through all the addresses and
> "verified" them. Here the steps I took:
>
> Log into the Yahoo Mail Classic web browser window
> Step 0 Click on the Mail tab, and select Mail in the box just below
> it. That opens Mail Accounts with a window over which there are 3
> buttons Add, Edit and Delete.
> Step 1 Click the Add button and a window opens with a slot for
> Account Name. Input
> the NAME of the 1st email address to be confirmed and click Continue.
> Step 2 Input the Name again and the corresponding email address.
> Click Continue.
> Step 3 'Setup mail Server.' This is a rat trap - ignore it (click
> Skip this Step button)
> Step 4 Verify Account. Click the Send Verification button. This opens
> another window
> that tells you the code has been sent to the email address you are
> verifying and it shows an empty box for inputting the code.
> Step 5 Go to your email prog and look for the code sent to the
> address being verified.
> Copy the code and return to the browser; input the code to the Verify
> Account box. Next click Verify for the account and another window is
> opened asking you to login again. Enter your main password here. (The
> password used to access the ATT-Yahoo web site.) Next - the code is
> verified and you are bounced back to the beginning - Mail Accounts -
> where we chose first Mail and then another Mail and started entering the
> new Addresses (Step 0 above).
>
> There is a line on top of the page with: "You can now send email from
> xxxxx@sbcglobal.net using the "From" pulldown on the Compose page."
> (xxxxx@sbcglobal.net is the last address you verified).
> Click the word Compose, which is a link, and a window opens, ready for
> an email. Type in the address you just verified with a subject word (and
> a love letter in the body, if you wish ;-) ). Click Send and then
> verify in your email reader that it has arrived.
>
> One caveat:
>
> Every time you verify the code for an email address, the code is sent
> from the
> web page to the email address in your email reader and you will recieve
> a messy message like the following.
> __________________________________________________ ____
> "TO VERIFY "XXXX007@sbcglobal.net" as a valid email
> address for the Yahoo! account "John_Dough",
> 1. Sign in as John_Dough.
> 2. Click on the following link or enter it in your browser.
>
> http://reactivate.mail.yahoo.com/pf/...l.net&.c=d3414
>
> c&us=us&.bm=&.send=1&.loginas=John_Dough&.done=http%3a//us.f581.mail.yahoo.com/ym/
>
> Account%3fAcctIdx=9%26YY=21902%26y5beta=yes%26y5be ta=yes
> 3. Follow the instructions on our site. If the instructions ask you for
> your Confirmation
>
> Code, enter: d3414c
>
> Regards,
>
> Yahoo! Member Services"
> __________________________________________________ ____
>
> Either click the link to transfer the code to the box on the Yahoo page,
> or copy / paste it
> into the box, and click the Verify button.
>
> Now continue until Yahoo has all "verified" all your emails. I did all
> that and, when I closed and re-opened TBird, I checked Sending on each
> of the verified addresses. Each one had a little message: "An error
> occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: From address not
> verified; see http://help.yahoo.com/l/us....................... Please
> verify that your email address is correct........."
>
> All that work for nothing. What a bunch of Yahoo incompetents! Why do we
> put up with
> this crap?
>
> Anyone know an ISP who runs servers efficiently and competently? I need
> a change.
> JJ

From a discussion on the Mozilla forum:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...0c8a2888f8cf82

I picked up two important bits of info:

1 Dump smtp.att.yahoo.com and replace it with
smtpauth.sbcglobal.net AND
2 Dump SSL for the SMTP server

Now all my emails are working fine.

Obviously a bunch of incompetents are mucking
around with emails.

Happy sending :-)