At&t/Yahoo mail changes coming 03/30/2007

If you are an at&t/Yahoo dsl/dialup subscriber you need to be aware of a major change coming at the end of March. at&t/Yahoo mail will start using SSL for encryption of both incoming and outgoing mail. at&t/Yahoo is supposed to be emailing notices to subscribers about the change but it seems to be sporadic at best. I found out about it from the at&t forum at Broadband/DSL Reports. Here is a link to the procedures to change your email client settings...
http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=287
I made the change a couple of weeks ago and Apple's Mail.app seems to work just fine using authenticated SSL. However, some people are reporting problems getting Entrourage to work. So, if you are a subscriber, take note and be ready.
Dual 2.5GHz G5 Power Macintosh Mac OS X (10.4.9)

ikrupp--
Thanx for the response, that clears up several things that have been bothering me. Together with your posts and those of Allen Sampson in another thread, I've really learned a lot these last two days. I still have much to learn though.
Entourage is part of Microsoft Office for the Mac. It
is Office's email client and is roughly equivalent to
Outlook in Windows. Apple's Mail application is a
different animal from Entourage. It is Apple's OS X
email client. As I mentioned people were reporting
that Entourage was having problems with the new
authentication at&t/Yahoo is using. Apple's Mail app
was working fine.
Do not delete the Maill app. You don't really need to
delete anything. Just get your accounts set up right.
What problems are you experiencing with your email
client?
I have not deleted my mail.app but have made a duplicate copy in case I need to do something so drastic. I'm glad you have relieved me of that problem.
I have been having trouble with my Mac mail.app for sometime. It often refuses to send mail although it is receiving from my mail accounts. A short time back something awful happened, it lost all my inbox mail for no apparent reason. Then some mail started filtering in. It was about the time I got an account with gmail (I think). I was working on other things and didn't pay too much attention.
The problem now is that MSN, my ISP, is no longer POPing mail to my mail.app. At first I thought I'd done something wrong and went in and tried to correct whatever was wrong with accounts that had been working fine for some time. I'd grown to really love the mail.app setup and used it almost exclusively for my not very active email correspondence. I know now that there was nothing wrong with my information as yesterday, for the first time in weeks, the mail.app sent mail out under the name of gmail and today they refuse to do so. I have done nothing to the accounts in the interim so it has to be something in the system.
I'm chronicling as best as I can remember what has happened and will return here for help from those of you who know how to fix things.
Thanx so much for your help and I'll be back soon. ....gb
eMac - 1GHz -PowerPC G4 -768MB SDRAM-HD 59G 17Gavlb-xHD 89G avlb Mac OS X (10.4.9) ISP-MSNOne-DSL ATTYahoo

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