Reading email from a Yahoo POP server (inbound.att.net)

Reading email from a Yahoo POP server (inbound.att.net)

[Alan]

I've made an effort to get email from a POP enabled Yahoo server (inbound.att.net), but the buffer " trace of POP session to inbound.att.net" ends up with content:

+OK password required.

-ERR [SYS/TEMP] Service is not available; please try again later.

*** Fatal error: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.
*** Server has terminated the connection abnormally.

and I seem stuck--for the moment.

If others have succeeded, I'd be interested in some of the relevant details.

My version information is:

GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN
Gnus v5.13

and I have gnutls, openssl, etc. from Cygwin installed.  My operating system is Windows XP Home.

From my customization file:

 '(gnus-secondary-select-methods (quote ((nnbabyl ""))))
 '(gnus-select-method (quote (nnnil "news")))
 '(mail-sources (quote ((pop :server "inbound.att.net" :port 995 :user "USER" :authentication password :stream ssl))))
 '(pop3-stream-type (quote ssl))

where I've edited out the actual user name and inserted USER (for posting).

The AT&T Yahoo email service comes with my AT&T U-Verse subscription (but dates back to Southern Bell Company and DSL).

Thunderbird has no such problem getting email from inbound.att.net.  Examining its log file for a logged session with this server does not give me useful clues.

Re: Reading email from a Yahoo POP server (inbound.att.net)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Alan <alan.wehmann@gmail.com> writes:

> I've made an effort to get email from a POP enabled Yahoo server
> (inbound.att.net), but the buffer " trace of POP session to
> inbound.att.net" ends up with content:
>
> +OK password required.
>
> -ERR [SYS/TEMP] Service is not available; please try again later.
>
> *** Fatal error: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.
> *** Server has terminated the connection abnormally.

Yahoo asks for a password, and then terminates the connection.  The
error message seems to indicate that Yahoo says that this is a temporary
error on their side.

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