Solved: New ISP/Old Email

After years of dial-up connections, I've finally signed up for DSL with a different provider than my dial-up ISP. My DSL is ATT/Yahoo. I would like to retain my old ISP for the near future because I'm registered under that email address in many places. I've figured out how to download email from my old provider but I can't seem to send new email. When I try it, I get an error message about the connection timing out. For what its worth, I'm sharing my DSL connection between two computers at home using a Linksys WRT54GS router and matching Linksys WPC54GS pci adapter card. So, is this possible? My default email program is Eudora Pro in paid mode.

 

Like etaf said, you may not be able to use the email on your computer.
If your old ISP has web mail, you probably can still use it there. My old dial-up email address is
still active on the web even after I dropped their service for my broadband, but I can't use it on my computer.

 

Well, using port #587 didn't help. I finally have noticed that I can't download or send email on my new AT&T/Yahoo account using their pop servers. And their tech support doesn't support Eudora so they aren't any help. I may try having port 25 unblocked but if I can't use the AT&T pop server for their own email, then I'm just spinning my wheels. It should be possible to use Eudora for both accounts. (AT&T used to support Eudora, but currently doesn't. I wish I had known that before I signed up with them.)

 

By properly setting up my identities in Eudora, I have been able to download my email from my old ISP but still can't send email to that ISP. And of course, I can't send or receive on my AT&T account using Eudora. Sigh.... On my wife's computer, I finally broke down and set up her accounts using Outlook Express. Whereupon, she informed me she didn't like the default user name I setup for her so I get to do it all over again with a different name! Aggggh! I checked the options selected on the web mail screen and I had already chosen the Pop "Access and Forwarding". There has got to be a way but right now, I'm stumped.

 

Well, after much travail, I can finally receive and send email thru ATT/Yahoo but only using Outlook Express. After spending an hour or more talking to a tech (in India, I believe) he finally gave up and referred me to ATT Support +, a pay per incident support service. I hate to pay for something they should supply as part of the fee but it was more important to get my wifes and my computers connecting properly. So, after another hour or so we finally got OE to work so I guess my problem is sort of fixed, but I'd still prefer to use another email program. I've tried Thunderbird, Netscape Mail and of course Eudora and can't get any of them to send email.

I guess the moral of my story is, if you're going to sign up with AT&T/Yahoo DSL (great speed, reasonable price), you'd better be willing to use Outlook or Outlook Express. (Yuck!)

 

OK, that worked for sending. At least I was able to send a test message to my wife's old account and it sent OK. However, I still can't receive email with Thunderbird. When I select "Get Mail", I get an error message that the connection was refused. I don't see any difference in my settings but I'm probably missing something.

 

When I try to get new mail, I'm getting a connection refused message. Changing my settings to match Chuck's, I managed to send a message so maybe it is possible.