Cannot send mail after upgrading to Lion

Thank you! That sequence of actions enabled me to once again send email.

Awesome!

It worked immediately!

How did you figure this out?

Thanks greatly

Hey Ridemo. Hope this fixes it. Appreciate keeping us updated.

Tried all of the above and I still can't send mail with Mail (5).

So I deleted the Mail.app account and downloaded and installed Thunderbird.

Entered my username and password and it all worked straight away, including send.

So I went back and set up the Mail app account and tried it but its still wouldn't send mails.

I think that I will just give up and use Thunderbird.

I've been following the posts about the inability to send with Mail on Lion using Mobileme. I deleted the MM account as per instructions. Force quit Mail. Let it repopulate. But when I tried to send, it still it does not connect to the utgoing smtp server. It invites me to select another smtp, then spins and gives up.

I have another account that is not mobileme, but an old POP account. Could it be confusing the two? So far this thread is the closest to resolving my problem, but it hasn't done it yet. Would a Mac Genius figure it out?

After re-adding the account via  > System Preferences > Mail,Contact,Calendars with Mail closed , if you are attempting to send using your MobileMe account and it prompts for an outgoing server, choose the one that says "MobileMe ( MobileMe)" or "MobileMe (membername@me.com)"

Hopefully this works. Keep us updated.

I spoke too soon...

It did work immediately after following the steps of jeffrey512.

And then immediately didn't work afterwards.

Each time, I can get outgoing mail to work once by following these steps, and then it fails after.

Since it takes so long to re-cache or re-sync the mailboxes, this is a poor solution.

I don't know why this would happen; I cannot even imagine a mechanism where the settings would change themselves. I am now officially frustrated.

Tried the fixes only to just find this on the apple site:

System Status

• MobileMe Mail
• Some MobileMe members cannot send MobileMe Mail. Normal service will be restored ASAP. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thanks Jeffrey. I did select my mobileme account when prompted, and yes, eventually it was sent, after about 5 minutes of spinning i circles. But here's the wierdest thing. It only sends test emails that I send myself. But when I sent an actual email to someone else, I get the same dialogue box telling me it can't connect to the smpt server. No matter what I click, it refuses. So my only option now has been to import all my emails from my gmail account. And sending with Gamil works everytime. So from the above message from NLKapple, it looks like this miught be a temporary system failure at Apple. Ever seen that at Gmail?

Jeffrey's solution worked for me also... momentarily, then I got the same problem as EricN identfies. I can send messages to myself but not to anyone else...My problem was also that the spinning i circles never stopped...after an hour I just closed the window.

This has happened within the last 2-3 days... Apple has to be doing something about this, I don't think it has anything to do with my Lion update.

Same here. Jeffrey512's solution fixed me up for a whole two days of trouble-free mail, but today the problem came back. MobileMe system status fluctuates between reporting mail difficulties and saying that all services are functioning normally, so clearly they're working on this. Equally clearly, the problem is not yet solved.

i have the same issue...many of the fixes seem to work for about 48 hours or 10-20 emails then it all dies on me.

i fiddle with settings, then it works again for another 24-48 hours.

just one mobileme account. you would think that apple would be able to design an email program that works by now !!!

Now, all of a sudden I can send emails again, both to myself, and others. It took all morning to get it to work.. But the problem was not with my settings or my computer. It was a Apple problem, from the Mobile me site, in which the whole system went down. That actually pleases me, because I know if it happens again, I'll just have to wait it out, and use Gmail.. No need to fiddle endlessly with settigns.