Summary:
You can use AT&T Mail to send email from a non-Yahoo! email address. This means that if you have your own domain email accounts and wish to send email using your att dsl (for example) connection, you need to login to your ATT Yahoo! customer panel homepage and enter / verify the domain email accounts you will be using. As of the writing of this they allow customers to have 10 domain accounts entered. The below process goes quicker than you might think, but requires your scb/att primary email account login information from when you opened your account. Example: myacct@sbcglobal.net password: 123abc
smtp.att.yahoo.com will not authenticate out going mail with a non-Yahoo! email address. If you received an error message (553) while sending an email via Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Eudora or other external email client, your non-Yahoo! email address or Yahoo! Mail address is not verified. To properly use the att.yahoo.com SMTP service, please follow these instructions.
Perform the domain email verification Process for sending email messages from a non-Yahoo! email address:
1). Goto Yahoo! Mail and log in with your user-name and password.
2). Once you’re logged in, click Options in the upper-right area of the page.
3). Select “Accounts” from the side menu. Then Select “Add or Edit an Account”
4). Click Add.
5). In the Account Name field, enter a name for your own reference (for example, Work, School, My Domain, etc.) and click Continue.
6). In the Name and Email fields, enter the name you want the person receiving email from this address to see, and the alternate email address you would like send mail from (we’ll send a confirmation code to this email address, which you’ll use to complete this setup). for example “you@yourdomain.com”
7). Click Continue in the lower-left corner.
8). Next, you’ll see “Step 3 Setup Mail Server.” Click Skip this Step in the lower-left corner.
9). On the next page, click the Send Verification button.
This transmits a verification email from Yahoo! Member Services to the email address you just specified. Here’s the easiest way to complete your setup and start sending mail from the new address:
- Leave the “Verify Account” page open.
- Retrieve the email sent by Yahoo! Member Services to your alternate email address.
- Enter the “confirmation code” from this email into the Confirmation Code field in the “Verify Account” page in Yahoo! Mail.
- Click Verify Account.
- Sign in with your Yahoo! Password on the final page.
- Your alternate email address is now verified and can be used for sending emails through Yahoo! Mail or your email software.
Note: Every primary and secondary Yahoo! Mail ID can verify up to 10 alternate email addresses each.
Special notice for Outlook 2003 users: You might need to download a program update to resolve this problem. Please click here for detailed instructions.
Modify your email client software SMTP settings for att.yahoo.com
Once your non-Yahoo! email address or Yahoo! Mail address has been verified. Open your email client software and modify the smtp settings as below:
1). Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:
smtp.att.yahoo.com
Use SSL, port: 465, and use authentication
2). Enter your Account name/user name: Your Email address (such as you@yourdomain.com)
3). Enter your Password: Your Email password
4). Save
Now you should be able to send email using your Non-Yahoo! email address without any problems.