Posted on 02/08/2021 10:59:49 AM PST by ml/nj
He should put the two computers side by side and go thru the email setups and note any differences..........
I guess I wouldn't have thought to say "almost never" if it weren't almost never.
FTR, I think the problem has increased toward never since I've been down in Florida. It may even have worked normally when I first got here. I just don't remember.
I am the only user on both machines, but the client's machine (which doesn't exhibit the problem) was set up by someone else more than a year ago.
ML/NJ
You clever people probably don't have clients that you did work for ten years or more ago who might wish to contact you. (Or friends even.)
ML/NJ
I have to log in to yahoo periodically as my email address
is rather old and from bellsouth.
Is there any VPN involved on either yours or your client’s computer?
Yahoo email was compromised years ago by it’s own employees. I know from experience. That means everyone on your contact list was compromised too. I use hushmail now, never one piece of spam.
if it’s ‘almost never’ then it complicates things- if it is ‘almost never’ then it could be something like a VPN not connecting to a server yet, thus not allowing you to connect to the internet- (Not saying this is the problem, just giving a scenario that could cause it to happen ‘almost all the time’)
If it is ‘almost never’ then it sounds like some program is is causing it- one way to test would be to shut down all browser adons,
If you could never connect, then it points to a setting, like a firewall setting always preventing it
If you run a firewall, i would turn that off and try connecting a frew times, to see if maybe that is preventing you sometimes from connecting to yahoo-
How in the world do you manage moving your physical residence and get your mail???
/s
Receiving email to yourself from your own account. You think there might be a problem!
Hint:
Showing results for how to auto forward yahoo mail
Search instead for how to autoforward yahoo mail
Enable automatic email forwarding in Yahoo Mail
Click Settings .
Click More Settings.
Click Mailboxes.
Click the primary mailbox account.
Under Forwarding, enter the Forwarding Address.
Click Verify.
Log in to your forwarding address and follow the instructions sent there.
No VPN.
ML/NJ
Is it *only* e-mail that you are having issues with? Any other sites?
[[I guess I wouldn’t have thought to say “almost never” if it weren’t almost never.]]
no i guess not- but folks sometimes say ‘almost’ when they really mean ‘never’ or something similar- force of habit- which is why i asked-
One other thing i thought maybe- You could try clearing your cache, if it still persists- you could try running a network connection troubleshooter- look up how to do that if you don’t know how- there’s a few steps to do that- Sometimes the troubleshooter can fix a connection issue- sometimes not
Just set up auto-forwarding of yahoo email to your current account. Then you will not need to login to the old account.
Way back in prehistoric times, we would use these utilities to speed up web access and what a lot of them would do is add a website and its IP address to the .hosts file to bypass looking it up. That worked great until the IP address changed, of course, and then you were SOL, and if you didn’t know that’s how it was done, you were really SOL. (Which makes the .hosts file a good way to lock out the young wisenheimers in your family.)
Probably not what’s going on with you but always good to mention it nonetheless.
Clear out you cache!
Move back to New Jersey.
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Thanks to deoetdoctrinae for the ping!
Looks like clearing out the cache did it! Mail came right up like old times.
ML/NJ
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