At&t now charging for mobile email 2.0 ?

My mobile email stopped allowing to access my account today I got error message 20. So I call att and after of speaking to customer service they get a tech on the line he tells me that att is now  charging $5 a month for email weather it is 2.0 or 3.0 and the reason why i got the error was because i have a block on any charges to my bill otherwise it would have just added the new fee to my account. Has anyone else experienced this ? So he tells you might as well upgrade to 3.0. So it seems they are forcing 3.0 anyways.

they better not be.  They get enough of my money.  I see the next app to be deleted from my phone.  It is not even that great a program.  I am off to see my account now and verify...

What? a rep who doesn't know anything...? shocking. but I will keep close tabs on my account this month.

This morning I got the error 20 again when trying to log in to my yahoo account so I created a hotmail account and added to mobile email 2.0 and signed in without issue so idk whats going on. I have deleated my yahoo and tried to add it and know cant get past verification. might be something with yahoo. I can still access through my web browsers. Guess I will give it some time and see if it clears up.
update:
Called att again and was informed that yahoo is requiring you to have mobile email 3.0 to access your account and receive push email. No others are doing this at this time. This supposedly went into effect on september 17th.

I have the yahoo account as well.  Besides seeing the error message 40 for about half a day, it works just fine.  I did not have any problems retrieving my emails today.

@yahoo.com and @att.net are both functioning on my phone. The @att.net is a yahoo address also.

of course, they want the money- any paid app MUST be better than the free one, right?

Are you saying you get the notifications through your event widget but when you hit the "view" button it does not open mobile email? Are your emails there when you open the program yourself?  I ask because there are times that I get the notification and the event widget does not open the program, but when I manually do it, all my emails are available.  Then there are the times I do not even get the notifications, but have emails waiting for me...This seems to be a random thing, but since flashing last week, it works fine.