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by dehrmann 1455 days ago
Unrelated question, but since you work on Yahoo Mail...

What's its association with AT&T? My parents have an old AT&T email they want to keep after leaving AT&T. AT&T claims it's possible (which I find shocking), but it's not really clear who actually runs the account. I think it was originally sold as AT&T/Yahoo, so was it Yahoo mail under the hood? Is that still the case?

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I don’t know the policy for email account retention for AT&T Internet email, so I can’t speak to anything about it…

But for your last two questions: Yes, it’s Yahoo Mail under the hood! That is still the case. Yahoo provides email hosting services for AT&T Internet users under a contract between Yahoo and AT&T.

However, all customer support for AT&T Yahoo Mail is handled by AT&T, so the best resource for help for those accounts would be AT&T customer service or their help site: https://www.att.com/support/topic/email-support/

Any chance it's from the SBC/Yahoo days?