Hello Ancy, Justin, Maria, Tess / AT&T Community Specialists - re pop3 att email w/Outlook cllient not working

Here are some things to try if your AT&T POP3 email client isn't working:

>Check your settings: Recent security upgrades may require you to update your settings.

>Disable security software: Firewall, antivirus, and anti-spyware software can sometimes conflict with email programs. >Try disabling them one at a time to see if that helps.

>Check your password: If you've entered the wrong password too many times, you may need to wait an hour or reset your password.

>Check your POP3 server settings: For POP3, the outbound server is outbound.att.net and the port is 465.

This Here may help if it is the new security measures with Oauth perhaps.

Nothing to do until AT&T realizes they have problems with their POP servers. The problem is intermittent. I have it from both my PC app (Thunderbird) and phone.

Until then, you can use mail.yahoo.com from a web client (if you have your associated account credentials, not your email credentials).

Same issue going on w/ Outlook 2021 on Windows PC... sometimes it will sync/download my email, other times I have to keep re-pasting my Secure Mail Key into the password field over and over until it finally decides to sync...... been going on for 6+  hours now... ATT support is clueless.

authorpvh & rest of ATT Community Specialists - email seems to be working again - thank you for bringing this to attention of ATT email server group!