Verizon Yahoo mail Send problem

[Velotrain]

In the last day or two my messages are not being sent but sitting in the Outbox. The error message is "The message could not be sent because the server rejected the sender's e-mail address. The sender's e-mail address was my-id@verizon.net'.

Server Response: 553 From address not verified - see Why am I receiving an error when I send mail from Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc.?
Server: 'outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC78
Protocol: SMTP
Port: 25
Secure(SSL): No

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I went to the Yahoo Help URL above and what they show does not reflect what I see in my Yahoo mail account. The Verizon address is shown as Primary in Yahoo and Yahoo shows I am linked to it. Since thgis just started happening I wonder if Yahoo is playing around with their system?

[jwoolman]

Yes, verizon yahoo is playing around with their system. I checked All Forums - dslreports.com and there is a thread discussing this. It started late afternoon Wednesday Oct 7, 2009 - I suddenly couldn't receive or send mail with Outlook Express and was not alone. Someone in the PDT time zone reported it was fixed on their server by mid afternoon Thursday PDT (no change in his Outlook Express settings), but my own receive function didn't return until a few hours later and I still can't send as of Friday 11:30 pm (I'm in the EDT time zone). I'm in Outlook Express 5 for the mac for my main mail, but I don't think it depends on the computer species. I have the same outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net and a user-id@verizon.net address, connection by dsl. My error message is explained as either "Your server doesn't support SMTP" (!) or "authentication required - for help go to »help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-11.html", depending on its mood. I have my userid and password entered properly for login in Outlook Express, and of course they do let me pick up mail... I doubt that they will fix anything further until next week.

I do suggest that you change your port to 587 - they are going to be blocking port 25 soon, apparently a spam control measure. Maybe the havoc they've caused is related to that changeover, which is supposed to go into effect October 20.

If it gets fixed for you, please post!

[Velotrain]

> I do suggest that you change your port to 587 - they are going to be blocking port 25 soon, apparently a spam control measure.

I don't know how to change ports, but will poke around.

I would say it's partially fixed as of yesterday. My outgoing messages don't sit in the Outbox anymore, but they don't necessarily all get delivered - seems to be somewhat random.

I'm using Live Mail because of the addressee autofill bug in Outlook Express, but I don't particularly like it so may go back.

Say - I thoughts Macs were immune to all this stuff?

[jwoolman]

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I don't know how to change ports, but will poke around.

Someone with the same program will be able to better advise you, but look for a checkbox etc. where you see the number 25 now for the port. Mine has a checkbox saying "override default SMTP port". Once it's checked, the number in the box (originally 25 as the default) can be changed to 587.

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Say - I thoughts Macs were immune to all this stuff?

Ha. Ha. Ha. Alas, even the noble mac can't protect against the vagaries of the isp itself .... We're not currently the same target for various attacks from undesirables as our windows brethren and sistren unless maybe we're accessing the net through a windows emulator (yes, my mac does Windows), but we're just as stuck with whatever the isp server decides to do to us.

I still can't send mail, so we are probably on different servers. Hope they get to mine by Monday, sending through a web interface is getting old fast. Also my computer is supposed to text me when client e-mail comes in, but can't do that now. So I have to run down the battery on my cell phone having it automatically check mail on my client-only account every 5 minutes.