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Doug Lassiter wrote:

> 
>> > Flytrap wrote:
>> > Have you validated your outgoing (from) address with yahoo?  That is
>> > required now if it is not the address that sbc gave you when you
>> > signed up.
>>
>> I had to do that a few weeks ago, when a random selection of my outgoing
>> mail would just hang (using Eudora as the POP client).  The help desk
>> person I got originally had such a bad telephone connection (to India?)
>> tha
>> I gave up.  The second one correctly diagnosed the problem and helped me
>> get it straightened out.
>>
>> My only complaint:  No notification.
>>
>> His answer:http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=6239  Nothing has
>> changed.  It has ALWAYS been like that since the
>> internet was installed.  [Yeah, right, kid!]
>>
> 
> I'm embarrassed to say that while I did this validation a week or so
> ago (while on the phone with glacial tech support), I've now forgotten
> how to get to the link where you do it. Can someone point me to it?
> I'm being asked how I did it!
> 
> The ATT/yahoo help files are not that helpful, and actually point to a
> page
> 
> http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=6239    where is basically says
> you can't do it!
> 
> "Make sure you have entered your AT&T Yahoo! Mail Address as the
> "From" address in your email client. You will not be able to send mail
> if you have entered another address."
> 
> Well, that's precisely what I was told how to do -- sending FROM:
> dougl@joeblow.com, when my account is dougl@swbell.net -- and it works
> fine. Those help pages are pretty scattered, and read as if a dozen
> people co-wrote them without ever talking to each other.

Go to www.yahoo.com
Click my mail
log in with your swbell email name and password
Click on Options in the upper right corner
Click on Mail Addresses under Management
Click on Add and then follow the prompts