FYI re email attachments

I recently began having a problem with attaching files to my Yahoo/att.net emails. I simply could no longer attach a file to an email.
 
I first blamed the fact that I have upgraded?? to win10 but now think that Yahoo is at fault. After doing some googling I found that I wasn't alone with this problem and it was suggested that  turn off my Firefox adblock plus addon.
 
So far this has seemed to work for me. So maybe this will save some the trouble and time that I spent struggling with it and maybe someone can tell me if they are having the same problem and have they found a work around to save adblock.
 
Mike.

I gave up on sending attachments from Yahoo about 2 or 3 "upgrades" ago. Only use it for some basic emailing and to receive attachments that are stripped or delayed via corportate email

Do you use a local email client? I used to use outlook until they started charging money for it.
 
Mike.

I have an email account on almost every platform. Even have my first AOL account (I know I know). I don't run a local client for anything but the M1. I also have an old email from enom central.

Thank you Mike.  I utilize the attachment stuff all of the time relating to my OP2 panel and Homeseer boxes.
 
Here utilize gmail and ISP mail for stuff.  (also have outlook, personal email box, yahoo, et al).
 
Verizon switched over to using AOL emal (for the advertising stuff) then to Frontier (still using AOL email).
 
I was using Verizon email for other automation stuff.  Looks that the move to AOL email was mostly relating to advertising.
 
Think there was a mention of having to use the web interface for email or lose the email box.
 
I do attachments here via my gmail / T-mobile acount and it is working relating to CCTV snapshots and such.
 
Seems too lately that Outook email has less spam than the others lately.  (well I do not see it and just clear out the spam box about once a month.)

Windows Live Mail aka Outlook Express continues to work just fine as an IMAP client to hotmail, outlook, gmail, yahoo and anything else that has an IMAP interface for e-mail.  I only use the web interface when I can't use a real e-mail client program.  Or, in rare situations, where I need to do an 'all mailbox' search and that's often faster than using WLM locally.

It seems to me that imap is imap whether you access it through windows mail or the yahoo web page. What are the advantages of using windows mail over yahoo web page? Isn't the data still stored on yahoo servers?
 
I liked the old outlook that used pop and smtp servers and stored the emails on my pc.
 
Mike.

A local client tends to be quicker to use and, of course, has no sidebar spam.  It's just the mail, none of the advertising crap.
 
Yes, with IMAP the advantage is you get local performance, but mail is kept in sync on the servers.  So you can use WLM on a PC and email software on tablets/phones and not have mail get out of sync.  It's quite nice and a damned site better than using POP because of that.

wkearny99
 
I just added my yahoo mail to windows 10 mail client and I'll see how that goes in the next few days.
 
Thanks, Mike.

I greatly prefer using the native web-based interface for my Gmail account. I like that it's practically the same interface across all devices that I access my email from no matter where I check it.
 
I haven't liked POP since around 2003 when I did have Outlook setup with my hosted email. All emails were downloaded to my computer, which crashed. All emails had been downloaded to that computer, and were then gone. I've used webmail almost exclusively since then.
 
The only client that I've used in recent years (not for myself) has been Thunderbird. I do tend to like the look and feel of it overall, but I just don't really have a use/need for it.

Well I just spent an hour wrestling with win10 mail and it is very very slow to retrieve mail in both my gmail and yahoo accounts. Very disappointing.
 
Mike.

In fairness, any e-mail client that uses IMAP is going to take a while to make the initial sync.  The speed of which is entirely dependent on your internet connection all the way along to that e-mail server.  So if the target site is busy or your network isn't the speediest then it'll take a while.  Once it makes the sync, however, it's generally pretty quick to maintain sync with new messages.  You can usual set the sync frequency.  I don't typically bother making it any faster than 5 minutes as nothing in e-mail needs anything faster, most of the time.  

Yeah I'll let it stew overnight

@mike
 
Are you using email relating to automation stuff where you need to see attachments instantly?
 
Are you using mobile functions / phone text, push or email clients?
 
Or is it just emails / attachments unrelated to automation that you are having issues with?
 
Mozilla Thunderbird was mentioned above.  You can give it a try to see how it fits for you.

pete_c said:

@mike
 
Are you using email relating to automation stuff where you need to see attachments instantly?
 
Are you using mobile functions / phone text, push or email clients?
 
Or is it just emails / attachments unrelated to automation that you are having issues with?
 
Mozilla Thunderbird was mentioned above.  You can give it a try to see how it fits for you.

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No automation. I have been using att.net mail since I switched to att as my isp years ago and have been accessing it through Yahoo's web since then. It's a little slow but has been OK with me until I upgraded to Win 10. After doing some trouble shooting I am thinking that it is a problem with Yahoo objecting to my adblocker addon to firefox.
 
I think that now it's time for a change and I'll give Thunderbird a shot alongside Windows Mail.
 
Mike.