Yahoo! POP3 email

[jeremyc]

Yesterday my access to my Yahoo! email account (via their POP3 server) stopped working, and I get the following error message:

Outlook said:

Task 'Yahoo! - Sending and Receiving' reported error (0x8004210A) : 'The operation timed out waiting for a response from the receiving (POP) server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).'

I can use Outlook to test my account settings and it says everything is OK. I can also ping the POP3 server.

1. Anyone else had any problems with Yahoo! email today/yesterday?
2. Anyone know how I can contact Yahoo! UK to ask if their server is OK (I couldn't find any contact addresses or numbers)?
3. Is there anything else I could try?

Thanks in anticipation of your help. The cynic in me says its got something to do with the changeover of BT Broadband to BT Yahoo! Broadband which started this week, but I'm jiggered if I can work out how.

[Podie]

Check the account settings within Outlook... need to use SPA IIRC... Yahoo has all the settings on their help page.. so have a nose via the website..

Open your mail... click "mail options" then "POP Access and Forwarding"...

>> Edited by Podie on Wednesday 4th February 15:09

[jeremyc]

Had checked all those - thanks for the suggestions.

All fixed now: in true IT-helpdesk-stylee I restarted the PC (its been on for a couple of days continuously) and magically all is restored. Guess I should have known to try that first....

[slinksport]

As an experienced tech support chap, I think I can say that a reboot seems to fix 75% of all known faults..

15% are resolved by a jolly good kicking..

The rest, god knows, pass those to the dev team!


To kick a computer once is to boot
To kick a computer a second time is to reboot