I ported my main email address to my new U-verse account. Pop3 worked fine with the same password I had been using.
I created a new ATT account for bill viewing and paying access. The name it wanted to use for that login was the same as my main email address. It asked my security questions, and it asked me to create a password (not asking for the existing password on the email). So I made one I will call NewPass. I was able to do my business on the ATT website.
I then saw that my POP3 email program on two different computers was failing due to a bad password. So I changed the email program server info to NewPass. The POP3 access still showed a password error. I suspected that the problem was because the old password would have been tried many times, so I might have the password disabled already. I disabled automatic checking of my POP3 for the main email account on the computers. I left checking a secondary account (which is most of my email) to happen, and that still works I decided to go back to the ATT.com login, and say I forgot my password. After the security questions, I "changed" my password to NewPass. I proceeded to Yahoo web mail login for my main email login. NewPass got me in to that. I was going to change the password for Yahoo to something else, but I found myself back at ATT during the process. There clearly was interaction.
I re-enabled POP3 using NewPass on one of the computers. It worked. I figured that there may have been a propagation delay earlier. So things "work" now, but want to get some information.
What is the relationship between the login for billing etc vs the login for my main Yahoo email account? Ideally they would be separate logins and/or passwords. They were different when I was on DSL. That main email address is what is used to log into AT&T Wi-Fi Hotspots, for example. What should I do?
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