Ah ha! Good questions!

1 Yes, it is DSL service here.

2 I'm not sure what a DSL account id would be (an email address provided by at&t for our DSL account?), but info@826michigan.org is probably what you mean by 'additional email id.'

3 Yes, I did escape the @.

4 No, http://att.yahoo.com/mail does not let me login! Username and password are valid, however, as login is possible via http://webmail.826michigan.org.

A bit of background. 826michigan is a small, educational non-profit. I'm merely a part-time volunteer without a whole lot of technical expertise, though perhaps more than the other liberal arts folks here. My supervisor, who confessed she had no idea what a router was, also had no idea who our ISP was. I had to determine this from a telephone bill, then call at&t for an smtp address. smtp.att.yahoo.com was the address given me by the sbcglobal tech for our DSL account.

Our organization's website and the email addresses associated with it aren't likely hosted by at&t/sbcglobal/yahoo, however. It was setup and is maintained by some guy up in Canada -- just another do-gooder like me. Could therein be the source of my misery? Do I need some sort of 'account id' directly provided by at&t/sbcglobal/yahoo to be recognized and authenticated by same?

Thanks, again and again. -cypress

Be glad, sitting in your gray-walled cubicle, that at least you weren't an English major.

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