[AuckLUG] Xtra-Yahoo Webmail

[Michael McCallum]

funnily enough my pop access to my xtra account has been broken for the last 
year, it would just hang on a POP list, it started working again after the 
weekend...
 
can't comment other than that

On Monday 20 August 2007 18:58, Mark Foster wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Bill Keesing wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:47 +1200, Ton van den Broek wrote:
> >> We all have probably heard of the "problems" Xtramail is having at the
> >> moment. Apparently you have to download a Yahoo application to read your
> >> webmail. Is that app working under Linux as well? Has anybody tried it.
> >> I haven't, because I'm not interested in a YooHoo ID.
> >> If it is not working under Linux (or a Mac), we have another reason to
> >> yell at Telecom.
> >
> > The changes that Xtra makes are very hard to remove. We have an intranet
> > at work and a script that we run to set certain settings in the users
> > account. Even after removing the Yahoo/Xtra crapware the scrip could not
> > change the homepage from the Xtra/Yahoo site to our intranet site so we
> > have blocked the site until we can determine exactly how Xtra is
> > screwing things up so we can fix it properly.
> >
> > Anyone remember the infamous Xtra disks that did things like borking the
> > TCP stack and broke existing Netscape setups? Looks like they are at it
> > again.
>
> I'll keep saying it.
>
> Vote with your feet.
>
> I spent a long time using Xtra as my ISP (I was employed by them) but
> eventually I just got sick of it.  I've switched and never looked back.
>
> Unfortunately, however, I still manage some Xtra-based services for work
> and other reasons - and am presently fighting with Yahoo's stupidly-broken
> registration system (just so that I can try to use Webmail again.)
>
> If you havn't switched provider yet, now seems like a good time...
>
> Mark.
>
>
>
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