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Scottie Mom

(5,815 posts)
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 10:50 AM Jun 2022

Anyone else having Yahoo email problems, Code 205.2 [LU003]?

Anyone with a good solution? ATT is about as helpful as nothing. They to wait 24 hours and try logging in again. As some know, I am hearing impaired and not having email is a disaster in my life. Along with texting, it is my only method of communication with people I must have contact with.

All help will be greatly appreciated!

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Anyone else having Yahoo email problems, Code 205.2 [LU003]? (Original Post) Scottie Mom Jun 2022 OP
Question: are you able to login ? Tetrachloride Jun 2022 #1
Login page appears, but states I have made too many attempts even after one try. Scottie Mom Jun 2022 #3
My experience is limited. I tend to believe the stores have an extra trick Tetrachloride Jun 2022 #6
Reading the ATT/Yahoo forums, Scottie Mom Jun 2022 #7
It's working fine for me. QED Jun 2022 #2
Worked find for me for 17 years and then WHAM! Scottie Mom Jun 2022 #4
I just checked and my Yahoo mail is OK Otto_Harper Jun 2022 #5
Having problems as of today dweller Jun 2022 #8
Found this long thread on the ATT forum ... fyi. CloudWatcher Jun 2022 #9
Will not open on my iPhone...get the same message. Scottie Mom Jun 2022 #10
Mail reading programs CloudWatcher Jun 2022 #11
tried that...server will not let me in. Scottie Mom Jun 2022 #12
From the thread ... CloudWatcher Jun 2022 #13
Been there and have done that. Last wait time was 72 hours. Scottie Mom Jun 2022 #14

Tetrachloride

(8,482 posts)
1. Question: are you able to login ?
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 10:54 AM
Jun 2022

1. Does the login page appear?
2. Are you able to login successfully?

If there is an ATT store near you, go there in person.

Additionally, I suggest to create a new email account with either Google Gmail or Apple iCloud. I myself recommend Apple because there are stores to visit.

Scottie Mom

(5,815 posts)
3. Login page appears, but states I have made too many attempts even after one try.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 11:00 AM
Jun 2022

If I reset my password, it starts all over again. There are several websites discussing this. It appears that AT&T knows of the problem but just has a script to tell people to re-set the password. This goes on every day all day long.

Tetrachloride

(8,482 posts)
6. My experience is limited. I tend to believe the stores have an extra trick
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 11:04 AM
Jun 2022

( people to contact).

Scottie Mom

(5,815 posts)
7. Reading the ATT/Yahoo forums,
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 11:32 AM
Jun 2022

it seems to be a server problem with ATT and they are well aware of it. Has been going on for about 7 months or so...only hit me a few weeks ago.

Scottie Mom

(5,815 posts)
4. Worked find for me for 17 years and then WHAM!
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 11:01 AM
Jun 2022

It appears to not be an isolated problem and I was hoping someone on the DU had had the problem and found a way to get around it. I can only get into my email on one desktop, not the other one, and not on my iPhone.

Otto_Harper

(759 posts)
5. I just checked and my Yahoo mail is OK
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 11:03 AM
Jun 2022

Earlier last night (about 04:30 AM Eastern) there was some problem with Cloudflare which caused a large number of websites (including DU and RS) to be unreachable for a while. That seems to have been corrected now.

dweller

(25,175 posts)
8. Having problems as of today
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:40 PM
Jun 2022

First thing to load in my email is an ad at the top of my list of emails, until that ad loads I can’t get my new emails … no ad will load, so can’t see new emails
I can see it says I have 4 new emails, but they aren’t in my list either
Last nite I checked and had 2 emails unread, was going to read them eventually, but left them unread

Today the are no longer shown as unread … I didn’t open them to read

So can’t get new mail to load so far today … something is up with yahoo


✌🏻

CloudWatcher

(1,932 posts)
9. Found this long thread on the ATT forum ... fyi.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 01:57 PM
Jun 2022

Just fyi, some info about what that code means:

https://forums.att.com/conversations/att-mail-login-security/help-with-care-code-2052-lu003/5eebfd6a6880ca6501d96b38

I'd suggest trying to access your mail via a different path. E.g. if you're using a mail reading program, try
logging in with a web browser and read it there. Or if you normally use a browser, try reading it with a
mail program on your phone or computer.

Fyi my mother has an SBCGlobal account that was working fine with Mail.app on an old Mac. But then
they recently changed the servers and she can now only access it from her (new) iPhone or from the
web server. I wasn't able to get the old Mail.app program on her ancient iMac to work.

Scottie Mom

(5,815 posts)
10. Will not open on my iPhone...get the same message.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 02:17 PM
Jun 2022

The forum...I have read every day for days. But thank you for taking the time to look and try and help.

Checking in and trying different browsers. Same result. What is an mail reading program?

CloudWatcher

(1,932 posts)
11. Mail reading programs
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 02:31 PM
Jun 2022

On the iPhone and on the Mac there is a program called "Mail" that you can use to get to your mail. You configure it to tell it about the servers and your login information.

Or ... you can use a normal web browser to connect to their server and use their web interface to read (and send) mail.

Basically the "Mail" applications are designed to be faster and offer more features than using the simple web interface, but are slightly more difficult to configure -- since you have to tell it your login information and info about the mail servers.

And my point was that ... sometimes ... the application will work when the browser does not ... or vice-versa.

There are applications for Windows and Android called "Mail" along with lots of third party applications that offer similar features.

CloudWatcher

(1,932 posts)
13. From the thread ...
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 02:59 PM
Jun 2022

This quote from the AT&T forum ...

@TryGmail so I got it fixed.... I chatted with customer support and they were great. They reset my account and sent me a temp password. It didn't work the first time, but the second time we finally got it to work.

It looks like the error "Code 205.2 [LU003]" basically says that you've been locked out of your account for 24 hours because of excessive failures.

So yeah, I think you need to either wait 24hrs for the timer to expire so you can try again, or find someone in AT&T customer support that is willing to reset the account and not make you wait.

This all seems like a really bad policy ... e.g. I could just try (and fail) to login to someone else's account and lock them out of it!?

Anyway, suggest you try again to get a customer support person to do their job and not assume it will fix itself in 24 hours. That they need to reset the password and let you in right away

Oh, and then eventually move your email to another provider. AT&T/Yahoo are basically idiots.

Scottie Mom

(5,815 posts)
14. Been there and have done that. Last wait time was 72 hours.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 04:28 PM
Jun 2022

From what I am reading, it seems that ATT is simply having their account people read a script.

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