@kit laughlin This thread is about an issue with receiving mail using POP or IMAP. You seem to have an unrelated issue with sending mail from Lion Mail.
@ssj152 I think people should no longer wait for a fix. The issue obviously only affects a minority of users, Apple could easily have it fixed with 10.7.1, but decided to keep it as it is. By the way, I am not on this thread for fun, but I had the same issue, I could no longer receive mail after upgrading to Lion.
Instead of whining I tried to find out what is causing this issue, and in my case it was a bug on the IMAP server software, which was revealed due to a change in the way Lion Mail authenticates with the server. I read all threads about receiving mail issues with Lion Mail, and all I have found fall into one these two categories:
- A bug in IMAP-UW, where authentication fails, if the sum of characters in user name and characters in password plus two can be divided by three. Either the service provider can install the latest version of IMAP-UW, where the issue has been fixed, or the user can chose a password with a different length.
- A misconfigured Perdition mail proxy, which returns bad CAPA results (IMAP capabilities, instead of POP capabilities). While Mail in Snow Leopard just ignored this, Mail in Lion is more picky about the content of the CAPA response, and decides not to connect. The service provider can fix the configuration, or the user can switch to IMAP instead of POP.
If you have an issue which does not fall into one of these two categories, please post it, so we get a more complete list of known issues. I completely understand that people expect these issues to get fixed by Apple, as mail retrieval worked fine in Snow Leopard and fails after upgrading to Lion.