Windows 10: Windows 10 Mail "Connecting to a Service" failure for Yahoo and ATT Mail

OK, I burned a few hours on this so I thought I would save some folks the trouble in case then found hit it too. This is a bug in Windows 10 Mail.


Changed my password on Yahoo (with ATT.net address). Windows 10 Mail, which helpfully uses OAUTH your Yahoo related accounts. The mail connection dutifully failed and offered a "FIX ACCOUNT" option, which I clicked.


I entered my username. Good.

I entered my password. Good.


Then the "Connecting to Server" windows just showed a Yahoo! banner. Nothing else.


I checked Yahoo logs which showed a successful login.


To make a long story short: The page only partially rendered. There was some suppressed or hidden text somewhere, and no scrollbars. I suspect some kind of "I agree" window was being presented. Maybe some kind of cross-site thing was happening or some unencrypted data on an encrypted page was suppressed


Nevertheless, what I did: I kept pressing TAB and ENTER a few times, and eventually I guess I hit the hidden "OK" button.


I got to the next screen where I clicked something else. about allowing the connection to continue and it FINALLY synced.


Took me hours to guess this. A pox on Yahoo, AT&T and Microsoft for this broken design.

:)

 

Actual Move From ATT/Yahoo Mail by Someone


I would like to hear from someone who has actually, successfully moved their email service while keeping their same email address from ATT/Yahoo to some other email service.

Yes, I have read numerous how to articles but yet to have read a true life experience. Yahoo mail is sorta like Hotel California. You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave.

Thanks

 

Actual Move From ATT/Yahoo Mail by Someone


If the ATT account is like most standard accounts, and I know you can do this in Yahoo, forward your mail to your new account and set the vacation / auto responder to send a message back to the person who sent you the mail that your new email address is.....someone@domain.com.

Then as new e-mails arrive in old account they are forwarded to your new account. When you forward you usually can either keep a copy on the old server or not. I like to keep a copy so I can check in to see who isn't getting the message that the account has moved. This is normally banks, utilities and machine based email as your auto response isn't read. Then I can address these senders manually. .

The auto / vacation responder usually allows a couple of options, on every email or once a day. I form a message like..... thanks for the email, effective immediately my new address is.... Please update your address book.

The longer you can keep your old account the longer you have to ease the transition. Not sure you can import existing ATT mail into gmail but you can import Yahoo.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-d...yahoo-account/


Ken

 

Yahoo Mail and recent security issues


Howdy Caledon Ken,
Thanks for the suggestions! I must say that I've used the same ATT server and Thunderbird for all my mail for a long time. The concept of switching over seems daunting. Might you elaborate simply on the two step verification. Old dog and new ways kinda issue!!!