and then email glitches

ok, so i checked email and found ATT email was not working, again... i check all my settings, nothing changed... i re-created new accounts using the correct settings, nothing... i checked online and found that the incoming and outgoing mail server addresses were different, but that was information for existing and new att internet customers and i am not an att internet customer (just paying $250 a month for phone service) and my old att internet account email addresses were grandfathered in some five years ago when att did away with their worldnet service and combined with yahoo mail which screwed up my yahoo and att accounts because i had different accounts and they could not combine them so i was locked out of my yahoo account and all years of the games (fantasy sports, for one) and stuff i did there since the 90's for a couple of years until i found a fix... so like they did when they deleted my att website, ten years worth of web writings, blogs, rhymes, graphics, and other work, they changed something and locked me out of my mail...

so i went only and chatted with a tech who could not help me because my old emails are not considered free att email accounts and they are serviced by the dial-up department which is not open now... so i tried the different inbound and outbound mail server addresses and got lucky, one worked... nice of att to send a notice that they were shutting down their other mail server that i've been using for almost fifteen years...

after all that, i decided to finally connect to my other att email accounts... i only use two of the five primarily because the primary account was spammed way too much after the worldnet shut down and they went "free email" in 2008... free bullshit, they gave my private email that i paid for as a loyal customer for over ten years to whomever and suddenly spam was flooding that private email address... connecting now, hoping that ended... and i am currently downloaded 21,625 emails from that one address... 553 megabytes of email... most are being automatically sorted into the junk mail folder... the att server is horribly slow, dial-up slow, so this could easily take hours...

meanwhile, as you may have noticed, i did not get back to sleep...