Any Yahoo pop/smtp problem recently?

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Harry

Hope this post does not bother you too much. I am not sure where to post
it!

My Yahoo smtp mail suddenly got problem recently. It will not send any mail
out if I choose to sned by Yahoo.
I am not sure if it is a Cox problem (not allowing external mail server...)
or yahoo. I did not change any pop/smtp setting...
 
Harry said:
Hope this post does not bother you too much. I am not sure where to post
it!

My Yahoo smtp mail suddenly got problem recently. It will not send any mail
out if I choose to sned by Yahoo.
I am not sure if it is a Cox problem (not allowing external mail server...)
or yahoo. I did not change any pop/smtp setting...
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In your e-mail client, is the e-mail account's SMTP (outgoing) server
configured to use a Yahoo SMTP server or an SMTP server for your ISP
(Cox)?

Check with Cox. It is possible that they've decided to stop the
spammers from abusing their network but no longer allowing SMTP requests
to pass through their network to an SMTP server somewhere off their
network (i.e., they no longer will be an open relay for spammers to
abuse). They might require that you use *their* SMTP server for
outbound e-mails. You can still define your Yahoo e-mail account to
yank your e-mails from Yahoo's POP server but you will have to specify
Cox's SMTP server in your Yahoo account.
 
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