I had the exact same problem - after 50 min on the phone with cust service,
the rep told me it is NOT mandatory to migrate your accounts to the yahoo
servers. I have a primary bellsouth account and 5 subaccounts. After hassling
and finally getting the primary & one sub account migrated, I am not doing
the rest and the rep assured me it would not be a problem. She did tell me,
however, that you have to click on the link to migrate and then when you get
to the TOS, do NOT accept the terms, but rather click on Reject. That will
leave it as before with no changes required to your Outlook.
On the accounts that you have already starting migrating which do not work
properly on Outlook, make sure that your email address is completely spelled
out rather than just the email name (
[email protected]) not (name). That is
the problem I was having. Also, the instructions for the Outlook settings
have the port numbers in the reverse order that they show up on the account
properties. Once I got those two things fixed, things are woking fine. Good
luck. I feel your pain big time!