Cox email to yahoo email transition

BTW, can I ask what state you are in? I am tracking which areas are being transitioned and when.

Thanks, I live in RI

Cool, me too! Thanks. So it looks like east coast, AKA New England market, is going first.

Oklahoma.

Thank you for your post. All currently available information can be found at https://www.cox.com/emailmove but at this time we don't have any dates confirmed. Customers will begin receiving email communications 60 days prior to migration. I hope this helps explain. 

The email address is still Cox.net but the POP/SMTP/IMAP are yahoo.com now. Doesn't the documentation confirm that? Isn't the whole point of this that the email is being transferred to Yahoo's servers, so shouldn't we be using their addresses? Would it help if I got moderator confirmation?

this is for after transition  POP access settings and instructions for Yahoo Mail | Yahoo Help - SLN4724

I don't see cox mentioned

POP settings for Yahoo Mail

Incoming Mail (POP) Server

• Server - pop.mail.yahoo.com
• Port - 995
• Requires SSL - Yes

Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server

• Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com
• Port - 465 or 587
• Requires SSL - Yes
• Requires TLS - Yes (if available)
• Requires authentication - Yes

Have you actually set up a client with these settings with Cox email to confirm or are you just going by documentation?

My area isn’t migrating yet

How does it add to it? I think yahoo is better then the no name company Cox had outsourced their email to. Cox could have just canceled Cox email service all together. If you want help with your service, start a new post.

Why don't you get verizon fiber and THEIR email.. Oh, "Verizon has retired our email service. We have completed our notifications regarding this change, and customers no longer have the option to keep their Verizon Email".. That's why! ROTFLMAO. Keep complaining, at least I still have my cox email address that I have had since the 90's. 

Darkatt wrote:

and customers no longer have the option to keep their Verizon Email

That's as of now, 7 years after the migration to AOL. Verizon did something very similar to Cox except they did it way before Cox. See here for more info. I switched to FIOS about 5 years ago but already had Gmail for email service so it wasn't a issue for me. I think this change is great because now people no longer feel held hostage by way of their email. They can cancel service and keep their email. The down side is the security issues Yahoo has.