Many SBC Global/Yahoo users like René are having trouble collecting their POP mail.

They receive this message:

The POP server “pop.swbell.yahoo.com” rejected the password for user “myaccount@swbell.net”

or the polling attempt just times out.

MaxFixIt has collected a number of user experiences. It also offers four work-arounds while SBC Global/Yahoo tries to fix the problem:

1. Set Mail.app to poll for messages every 30 minutes instead of every five or one.
2. Delete existing keychain entries for SBC Global/Yahoo
3. Click “Cancel” on the error dialog and allow Apple Mail to try again by itself later.
4. Use your full email address as your user name.

(SBC Global/Yahoo is a large ISP in the USA. Customers at the following franchises/affiliates are affected: SBC Global Ameritech, SBC Global Flash, SBC Global NVBell, SBC Global Pacbell, SBC Global Prodigy, SBC Global SNet, SBC Global SWBell, SBC Global Wans and SBC Global Yahoo!)

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Tags: Apple Mail, email, mail.app, SBC Global, Yahoo

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