Mail - Send & Receive Problems

Looks good. What error does appear? Try (for testing only) with SSL disabled.

I had a similar problem. Everything was fine and then my computer (MacBook Pro) crashed. When I got it restarted and opened Mail only one of my IMAP accounts (.mac) was still there. I re-added my two other mail accounts, but it is still screwed up. It won't send mail from any account. One of the accounts looks like it is offline, but I can get to it from another computer so the server seems to be okay.

This has been a widespread problem with both earlier OS's and Leopard, starting a few weeks back. I am experiencing it also, but not when I dual boot into Vista on the same machine and run mail using Outlook. So this almost assuredly is Mac OS related. When I can't SEND via either Apple Mail OR Entourage and it gives me an error, "Mail Can't verify the identity of "smtp.gmail.com" and it says the certificate is invalid. Now, I have everything setup right. I have worked in the computer field since the days of the first Apple II. I know how to setup email to work. And It worked a few weeks ago, as it did for most everyone worldwide posting to this issue. My VISTA dual boot partition works FINE with Gmail. All my Vista and XP machines in my small universe still work fine. The Mac OS now does not. AND I can use the Mac to log into Gmail with my browser and can send and recieve mail just fine.

I believe it was a bug with the last OS upgrade from Apple, given the fact that the same hardware running a different OS gives a different and correct result. We need a way to rollback these OS installs without reformatting and reloading the os. Windows allows that. Why doesn't the Mac? Am I missing something?

Anyway, the APple community needs a fix for this send mail problem. Obviously, not Everyone has this problem, but there are a lot of posts on this lately. Way too many to be random.

Apple? You listening? What is the story here?

Just thought I would add that I am having the same problem as of an hour or so ago. I can receive but not send. Mail is not connecting to smtp server it tells me via the connection doctor. I only use Mac.com accounts. I am forced to send via the mac.com website for now...

Mine suddenly started doing the same thing. Does anyone know why? All the settings are fine. I havent tried sending via the website, but I will now. I just don't get it.

I have the same problem.
Can receive mail on my .Mac account but can't send. Says server error.

Can someone fix this?
Thanks

Rob

I'm in the club, too... Just started last night for me. Won't connect to the server for sending mail but I am receiving mail fine. I'm running Leopard but I am having the same problem on my office iMac running Tiger as well. Really frustrating....

Let me add my name to list of people having problems. It came completely out of the blue, and I cannot figure out what is going on. On three different computers we are unable to send mail in our household. Receiving mail is not a problem. Last night I experimented by checking the SSL box. For a time I was able to send mail again. Today it's not happening. We use Comcast. Could the issue be with Comcast? If someone has a clue what is going on, please raise your hand.

For what it's worth, I'm using Comcast at home but we have Qwest DSL at my office and I'm having the same issues there.

As a wild stab in the dark, I think its an Apple issue on there server. You can't have this many machines go belly up on the same day with the same problem, regarding the internet. I assume they will fix it soon.

Rob

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Nt such a huge stab in the dark as a stab in our back. For those of us dependent on .mac to run their business as I am its a huge frustration. Like all of you, I can receive but can only send sporadically if at all. Most times my messages sit in my Entourage outbox for several hours until they mysteriously find a way out. For what it is worth, the Entourage error codes are 3253 and 3260.

When you check the system status at .mac they tell you everything is currently fine but "100% of .mac users were unable to send mail" for very limited times of 30 minutes or so 2 times in the last few hours. What BS, more like 30 minutes being able to send messages in the last 12 hours. C'mon .mac tech guys, hop to it and either fix the problem or tell us the truth so we can find another way to keep our e-mail life blood going.

I have a .Mac account, but I also set up a GMail and you can send emails through the GMail smtp server, even though they are sent through the .Mac account in Mail.
I'm doing it. Works fine, until fix.

Rob

OMG... I am having THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM. Just started yesterday (May 14, 2008).

I can receive email but I can't send any email on my .Mac acct on my Macbook.

It works fine on .Mac Webmail, but I get "can't connect to SMTP server."

I called Apple's 1800 and they "emailed me an article" which absolutely provided no support.

This is absolute nonsense.

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