Alternate OS 9 email application?
On my G4, I have OS 9.2.2 on a separate partition and OS X on a separate partition. I spend most of my time booted in OS 9.2.2, since I have many more classic applications than I have OS X applications. I have been using Outlook Express (currently v5.0.6) as my email application for many years. Although I can use Mail in OS X, I prefer to have all of my emails in one application.
Starting several months ago, I started receiving emails from AT&T Yahoo stating:
+Dear AT&T Yahoo! Customer: We noticed that you are accessing email using non-secure settings in your email software. We would like to ensure that your AT&T Yahoo! Member ID, password, and email messages are transmitted securely between your mail software (such as Outlook or Outlook Express) and the AT&T Yahoo! Mail servers. In order to meet this need, please enable SSL via the instructions that are available on the Help site.+
During this time, I was still able to use OE, even though I still continued to receive the AT&T Yahoo messages. Then I started to receive error messages stating:
+"Security failure. Personal Certificate Required."+
I followed AT&T’s security setup instructions and even called tech support. Apparently OE, even with the SSL setup, doesn’t have the necessary “communication” code to meet AT&T’s requirements and a week ago I could not send or receive emails. Apparently, I’m not the only user having this problem. See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1712482&tstart=0
Tech support stated that AT&T put in higher levels of security (SSL) on their servers to cut down on SPAM. This causes the problems with older email clients on both PCs & Macs.
I looked for an alternate OS 9 email application. I have Office 2001 that includes Microsoft Entourage. But it also won’t work, since it’s probably an OE clone and from the same era. I found another email application – Eudora v6.1.1. It works, but I’m still getting the AT&T Yahoo email messages about non-secure operation. So I don’t know how long it will still continue to work.
I realize that time and technology moves on and OS 9 applications are old and don’t always meet current computer technology. For example, I can’t access a few web sites or render pages properly (especially those that require the current Flash application) using the Moxilla v1.3.1 browser in OS 9.2. I have to boot up in OS X and use Firefox.
Are there any other OS 9 email applications to try? Especially an email application that works with AT&T Yahoo mail without SSL security problems. I could use the Mozilla email feature, but my preference is not to use the browser email.
Don Archibald, since you only use OS 9 - What email application are you using?
Cheers, Tom 😉
Starting several months ago, I started receiving emails from AT&T Yahoo stating:
+Dear AT&T Yahoo! Customer: We noticed that you are accessing email using non-secure settings in your email software. We would like to ensure that your AT&T Yahoo! Member ID, password, and email messages are transmitted securely between your mail software (such as Outlook or Outlook Express) and the AT&T Yahoo! Mail servers. In order to meet this need, please enable SSL via the instructions that are available on the Help site.+
During this time, I was still able to use OE, even though I still continued to receive the AT&T Yahoo messages. Then I started to receive error messages stating:
+"Security failure. Personal Certificate Required."+
I followed AT&T’s security setup instructions and even called tech support. Apparently OE, even with the SSL setup, doesn’t have the necessary “communication” code to meet AT&T’s requirements and a week ago I could not send or receive emails. Apparently, I’m not the only user having this problem. See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1712482&tstart=0
Tech support stated that AT&T put in higher levels of security (SSL) on their servers to cut down on SPAM. This causes the problems with older email clients on both PCs & Macs.
I looked for an alternate OS 9 email application. I have Office 2001 that includes Microsoft Entourage. But it also won’t work, since it’s probably an OE clone and from the same era. I found another email application – Eudora v6.1.1. It works, but I’m still getting the AT&T Yahoo email messages about non-secure operation. So I don’t know how long it will still continue to work.
I realize that time and technology moves on and OS 9 applications are old and don’t always meet current computer technology. For example, I can’t access a few web sites or render pages properly (especially those that require the current Flash application) using the Moxilla v1.3.1 browser in OS 9.2. I have to boot up in OS X and use Firefox.
Are there any other OS 9 email applications to try? Especially an email application that works with AT&T Yahoo mail without SSL security problems. I could use the Mozilla email feature, but my preference is not to use the browser email.
Don Archibald, since you only use OS 9 - What email application are you using?
Cheers, Tom 😉
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