SBC Yahoo!

Hey everyone,
So I recently got the new operating system Leopard and the mail app made it really easy to set up my SBC Yahoo! account to filter mail to the app. The only problem I am having now is that it wont send mail. I suspect that this is a server port issue and that there is a firewall. I've spoken to the tech people here about the issue and haven't been able to solve my problem. Can anyone help me? How specifically should I set up the outgoing mail server? What ports should I try?

I seem to have improved sending, if not altogether solved the problem.
I have a main account in my name and a subaccount for my wife, with different passwords. I wondered how both accounts could fetch mail at the same time without confusing (?) the server. Don't ask me why, but I decided to try leaving my wife set to smtp.att.yahoo.com while changing mine to 68.142.198.11 (which is the same location in IPv4). The only difference, as far as I can tell, is that my wife's email will be fetched at little later than mine because her fetch must be translated (?) through the DNS server. Sending seems more reliable.
I also added two more DNS servers to my DNS server list:
System Preferences | Network | Advanced |DNS | + etc.
This appears to have helped a little, in conjunction with the first change above.
How did I come up with these ideas? My grey Motorola DSL modem has a yellow sticker on the bottom, providing a URL for advanced modem configuration. This web page lists my connections, DNS servers, and allows me to ping other addresses. That (ping) is how I determined the IPv4 address of my smtp server. That is also where I saw that my DNS servers were different from those in the Network settings of System Preferences.
Perhaps others have a similar sticker on the bottom of their DSL modems? Your mileage may vary. Maybe sending won't work well later or tomorrow, but for now I am pleasantly surprised.
Message was edited by: Jim Marshall

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