SBCBglobal is one of the commonly used email service providers. It stands for Southwestern Bell Corp. While, its domain name comes under AT&T services, which means if you need to access its emails you need to use AT&T emails. SBCGlobal has been in the market for quite some time now. However, many users face glitches with this email till the time it got merged with Yahoo. From then onwards, many SBCglobal users are facing this issue- SBCGlobal Care Code 205.4 which is the most common one.
It is also difficult to look for a solution for its code or you are unable to access Yahoo SBCglobal.net due to this error. This article can be helpful for you and will tell you about ATT care code 205.4.
What is ATT care code 205.4?
This error code will be seen if you are trying to use AT&T email or SBCGlobal email. This implies that AT&T servers are not been able to recognize the email or password because of which a user is unable to recognize your email or password. Because of this, users may not be able to sign in with their email ID. So, if any user is unable to sign in to Yahoo or SBCGlobal, this may be because of the error code. Yahoo’s other projects like currently.com, and att.net can make it difficult to sign in because of care code 205.4.
How To Resolve ATT care code 205.4 for SBCGlobal?
To fix issues like SBCGlobal.net error code 205.4, users can try these troubleshooting methods mentioned below.
If any user is facing issues in signing in, they may reset their password for the SBCGlobal email. This may help them if they are unable to log in to their email because of care code 205.4 because of a number of login failures. If you are writing correct login details, but still it is AT&T is unable to recognize it and you may face excessive failed login attempts. If may also happen if you have changed your password and now you have forgotten it. This is done for maintaining security. So, instead of logging in again, it is better to reset or change your password.
For this, you need to:
- Visit the reset page for the ATT password
- Write user ID and last name of the account and click on ‘Continue’ and then select ‘I’m not a robot
- Then, you will be directed to the verification page of the account. You will see various methods for verification:
- Recovery using the contact number
- Recovery with the help of another email address
- Recovering by answering the security questions
- Recovery using the temporary password
- Use the method that you want to follow on-screen to get code
- Now, mention the code that you just received
- Once verified, you are allowed to make a new password
- Now, try to sign-in
2. Recovery using SBCGlobal User ID
If the above method doesn’t work for you, the issue can be due to the password and ID. Now, the next step should be to recover the SBCGlobal username if you are facing ATT care code 205.4. If you don’t remember the correct username and user ID of the account, then you can retrieve them by using the below-mentioned steps:
- Visit AT&T’s page where it says ‘Find your user ID’
- Mention the email that is associated with the SBCGlobal email and then press ‘Continue’
- Log into your email, then you get the user ID of the AT&T SBCGlobal account. Using the latter’s password, if you can see on-screen care code 205.4. This means you are still facing the same error code.
3.Use SBCGlobal.net Configuration Settings
If you can see ‘Care code 205.4’ after entering wrong configuration settings while setting SBCglobal net on Outlook or on any other service. Then, you must make the required changes in configuration settings.
These settings can be updated by yourself. You need to go to the section of ‘Account settings’ in Outlook.
You may refer to the table given below
| Account Type | Select from IMAP or POP3 | |
| Incoming server | Write imap.mail.net | Write inbound.att.net |
| Outgoing server | Write smtp.mail.net | Write outbound.att.net |
| Incoming server | Enter 993 | Enter 995 |
| Outgoing server | Enter 465(in both POP3 and IMAP) | |
| Encrypted connection | Shut SSL in both |
- Other troubleshooting steps
If the above-mentioned steps don’t give you results, then the error may be occurring due to a poor internet connection. For SBCGlobal email, you need to have a strong internet connection. Otherwise, you will keep getting AT&T care code 205. If there is a problem in the network, then you must change your modem and its settings. If still persists, you must call your internet service provider.
Conclusion
Make sure that you are using an updated browser as an old version can have such errors and you will not have a better experience with SBCglobal. You should also have the latest version of these browsers-Chrome, Firefox, and even Safari. These above-mentioned steps can resolve ATT Care Code 205 and you will be able to login into your SBCGlobal account.
