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Has been about two days now with no problems (touch wood!). Appears that it may have been a problem with the original server I was using.

I was aware of the timeout setting. Early on I progressively set it for longer periods, right out to two minutes. Unfortunately it does not seem to retry the login during that period, but just waits in vain for a response to the original attempt. All that does is just delay the appearance of the pop-up :^_^:.

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I have successfully tested setting up an Outlook account to send (SMTP) but not receive (POP3). Instead, the webmail account concerned is set to forward to another email address.

Thanks for showing me how to do this.

Cheers,
Pete.

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Have set up both Yahoo accounts using: pop.mail.yahoo.com.AU and smtp.mail.yahoo.com.AU.

Both seem to work OK. Will let them “soak” for a day or so and see if I still get the timeouts.

Pete.

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Thanks, I didn’t know that. I will try “pop.mail.yahoo.com.au” and see if it makes any improvement.

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The servers for the two domains seem to be different, so it may indeed matter whether you use one or the other. Have you tried a quick contact with yahoo’s tech support?

The POP server is “pop.mail.yahoo.com” which does not seem to be specific to the AU domain.

I couldn’t find Yahoo tech support when I first looked for it, but I will look again. Anyway, my understanding is that there was no support for a free service.

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This is just what I was looking for. I will set it all up and test it later today and report back. Many thanks for all the help.

Pete.

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That was also my suspicion. It has been happening so often for the last 2-3 weeks that I thought there might be another Lounger on the same server who could confirm the problem. Some additional info FWIW — my Yahoo email domain is @yahoo.com.au — don’t know if this would be significant.

Thanks for your quick response! And the welcome.

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