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Old 28-09-2004, 11:08   #1
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Question Yahoo Mail oddness

Hello all,

I have been trying you use Yahoo Mail (UK) with Internet Explorer for the last week and a half ( I was on holiday for 2 weeks prior to that).

As soon as I log in to Yahoo mail IE tries to download the login result rather than display it! I have tried 3 other machines all with the same problem! I have tried using 2 proxies directly (colchester )

When I use Opera all is well! (no proxies)
IE works fine at work and always used to work at home!

Any ideas?

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Old 28-09-2004, 11:19   #2
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Re: Yahoo Mail oddness

to Cable Forum, Nigel. I can heartily recommend that you click the little graphic in my signature In all honesty, I think it's the best thing you can do.

As for IE, I'm afraid I can't help you there.
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Re: Yahoo Mail oddness

Yahoo mail UK working fine for me, was last night at home, and right now at work.
Not had any problems with it, also using IE 6 and FireFox, both working fine with it.

Does it say what type of file it's trying to download?
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Old 28-09-2004, 14:53   #4
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Re: Yahoo Mail oddness

First post.. lots of lurking

It doesn't say what type... but the location is the login page...

Could be my router IPcop... ?

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Old 28-09-2004, 18:54   #5
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Re: Yahoo Mail oddness

Ok, it is the NTL proxies that are the cause of the yahoo mail problem. Some proxies work ok, some don't.

I'd suggest you just go though a list of proxies until you find one that works. The belfast 7 one seems to be fine, for now
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Old 04-10-2004, 23:04   #6
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Hmm this is getting silly!

I pick a proxy... works for a few days... then it stops!!

So I try Firefox... same problem...
But Opera still works ok?!

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Re: Yahoo Mail oddness

Hi,
I have tried to login with yahoo with two different accounts.
One account works perfectly and the other brings up the download file box (It also happens on a btopenworld email account).
If I change the proxy settings both work ok.

From nchampion's post I can see it will stop working again in a few days, so what are ntl going to do about it ?
Presumably thousands of less techy people are suffering from this problem.

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Re: Yahoo Mail oddness

If its those damn proxies again then I'm afraid all I can suggest is having a look at www.adslguide.org for a new ISP. That's what I did
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how can u change proxys?
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Re: Yahoo Mail oddness

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how can u change proxys?
Have a look at:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...trancache.html

Specifically the bit about 'setting a explicit web proxy in IE for Windows' (assuming you're using IE)
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Re: Yahoo Mail oddness

hmmmm.... I use opera...
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