I checked the spam folder at Yahoo and the e-mails are not there.  They are not in my junk e-mail folder.  I made a trip to my son's house and sent myself an e-mail from his computer and it did not come through.  The e-mails appear to be disappearing into a black hole.

I went back until Feb 2nd and looked at all of the e-mails I had received from BellSouth.net senders.  I had received dozens of e-mails from bellsouth.net but every single one was either forwarded to me or were a reply to an e-mail I had sent.  I did not have a single original e-mail.  There appears to be a serious problem that no one at AT&T seems to be concerned about.

Another suggestion would be to open a yahoo or hotmail SMTP (webmail) account to receive messages.  It would prove out the domain level security theory one way or another.

How long has this issue been occuring, if you don't mind me asking. Has it only been since you've had U-Verse? Or did it start sometime after getting the U-Verse service?

Uverse Guy said:

durrence said:

Problem solved.

Yesterday, I found most of my missing messages in a spam folder at Yahoo.  When I logged on to Yahoo several times before yesterday and clicked on the mail icon it showed no messages in the spam folder.  Yesterday I checked it and there were 71 messages in the folder, some a month old.  Only 10 of them were spam.  What kind of idiot programmer writes a program that blocks 61 good messages in order to block 10 spam messages?  Also, what kind of system designer activates a spam blocker program with no input from the customer?  I turned the spam blocker off and now my e-mail is working again.

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I'm glad your able to get your e-mail. However, I would be more upset with the spammers than the people trying to prevent spam. Remember, those are the guys trying to help you and keep you from getting e-mails you don't want. Sometimes they get it wrong but it's nice to know they give you a option to retrieve that e-mail. If we had no spam we wouldn't even need a spam blocker. Just food for thought.

Well I know it was resolved, but I work in U-Verse for Tier 2 technical support, and a while back we were having some outages with the Yahoo portion, and people not being able to access their online accounts (att.yahoo.com) and if they could get in, it would show no e-mails, so of course if the member is using Outlook, and he/she was opening the web-site during that time, it's possible he/she saw nothing. Also I can walk him/her through turning back on the spamblocker and taking that e-mail off the list.