Wed 12 Jun 2024
It’s just not been my year. Thankfully this latest thing doesn’t affect the blog, at least not directly. It seems as though Cox, my Internet provider, has decided to go out of the email business and has shut down all of their customers’ email accounts. The good news is that they have made arrangements with Yahoo (you’ve heard of them) to take over all of their previous email business. They promise a smooth transition.
Me, I’ve heard people tell me that before. Combine this with back-to-back afternoons of previously scheduled medical appointments, and you’ll have to excuse me for closing down the blog again for a few days while I tackle all this. It shouldn’t be longer than that, but as past experience tells me, who knows.
June 14th, 2024 at 3:25 pm
Sympathies, Steve. If you haven’t already done it, get your mail downloaded to your computer. I use Mozilla Thunderbird. Microsoft Outlook would work too but they did a redesign recently and I haven’t heard good things about it.
Best of luck and hope things go smoothly, but having a backup, especially your contacts, will save a lot of hassle.
Best
Sai
June 14th, 2024 at 5:03 pm
Thanks, Sai. Because of the medical appointments I’ve had to deal with the last couple of days, I haven’t felt up to tackling the transition yet. The basic switch from Cox to Yahoo sounds easy enough. Hooking my Thunderbird account to Yahoo as part two of the process sounds a lot more daunting. I’ll wait till the weekend, I think, before giving it a try. Fingers crossed!
June 15th, 2024 at 1:48 am
I was suggesting that you get your mails and contacts downloaded from Cox before they shut email down totally. It’s the only way to be sure you won’t lose anything in the transition.
June 15th, 2024 at 11:45 am
Good advice. I haven’t completely checked what’s there and what might be missing, but after the initial transition to Yahoo, my Inbox is as it should be, including the mail I missed in the interim.
Next, to reconfigure Thunderbird to read the new Yahoo account, Fingers double crossed!!
June 15th, 2024 at 3:38 pm
For what it’s worth, our transition from Cox to Yahoo was pretty smooth, although as with all such changeovers, the slightly different Yahoo interface takes just a little bit of getting used to.
June 15th, 2024 at 5:15 pm
Transition complete, but I wouldn’t call it completely smooth, but the hitch was is setting up Thunderbird as my email app. I got to a certain point and floundered a while before deciding to call Yahoo. The young lady on the other end took over my screen, created three apps and only then did a flood of folders files and emails start downloading to Thunderbird.
I could have stayed with Yahoo mail online, if I’d wanted to. I didn’t see much difference between it and Thunderbird, but the latter is like an old pair of comfortable slippers.
June 15th, 2024 at 6:42 pm
Ahhh. All is well. Until the next time.
June 17th, 2024 at 1:37 am
> I could have stayed with Yahoo mail online, if
> I’d wanted to. I didn’t see much difference
> between it and Thunderbird, but the latter is
> like an old pair of comfortable slippers.
A great description that can only truly be appreciated by someone over middle age 🙂 .
Glad that everything is now sorted out.