Is anyone else having problems with Yahoo! pop3 mail?

[hazel]

For months now, I've had my Yahoo! mail downloaded to Sylpheed via their pop3 server. You need to use SSL but that's easy to set up. Then suddenly, a few days ago, things started going pear-shaped. It's an intermittent problem; sometimes the mail gets through but nine times out of ten, there's a "Connection failed " message.

Have you ever tried using Yahoo support? I think it's run by softbots. Very polite softbots but the language is standardised and they don't read a darned thing you write them. You just get reams of standard output.

The intermittent nature of the thing suggests to me that it's a network problem, probably at their end. I certainly haven't changed any of my settings. There is, I suppose, a possibility that it's due to the openssl upgrade I did on 25th March (I'm using version 0.9.8n now) but if it's a failure in authentication, how come it sometimes works?

[hazel]

Well, I finally got a response from a human being. She said, more or less, that if I insist on running Sylpheed - an email client that Yahoo! don't recognise - it serves me right! Isn't that typical of the anti-linux world we inhabit.

In the mean time, the problem seems to have eased. I'm almost 100% convinced that it was at their end, not mine.

[oz]

Well, I finally got a response from a human being. She said, more or less, that if I insist on running Sylpheed - an email client that Yahoo! don't recognise - it serves me right! Isn't that typical of the anti-linux world we inhabit.

Ouch! I like Sylpheed quite a lot so if their service won't work with it, that would probably cause me to switch to another provider.

[hazel]

Ouch! I like Sylpheed quite a lot so if their service won't work with it, that would probably cause me to switch to another provider.

But that's the whole point. It does work, most of the time. At least it did before and it seems to work now. There was a week or so during which it didn't, almost certainly because of a glitch with one of their servers. What irritates me is the way they blame me for using Sylpheed and not themselves.

[oz]

They might be providing support from a pre-defined script like so many other support personnel do these days. If that's the case and you mention something not on the script, they are clueless about how to help, so it must be your fault.

[minimike86]

could always switch to a googlemail account

[tuxr99]

could always switch to a googlemail account

That's what I did. Thunderbird and Gmail work seamlessly. I hit the email button on my keyboard, and all 3 gmail accounts pop up instantly. I tried to get yahoo to play nice with T-bird, but no dice.