mac mail 4.5 and smtp.mail.yahoo.com

BDA,

No. This was a brand new computer and the only thing I brought over was the old email files which are put into a separate folder. The mail program however was started from scratch, and this was a new install. What was interesting was that I was having the same promblems on a different older computer, with an older version of mac mail. Funny thing is that it's working today, though a bit slow, and I didn't change a thing. It is just one of those things that crops ups from time to time with no explanation. When it does fart out, my other mail programs still work fine.

While observing the connection doctor I could see that it was connecting, then discconecting, and connecting again, in like an endless loop. So when it is trying to send mail I don't even get a message saying it can't connect it just goes on and on with the spinning "im working on thing" as opposed to the color wheel of death. And that will get stuck like that until I delete the outgoing message and quit mac mail and restart. I'm still of the opinion that it has something to do with some kind of handshake problem between mac mail and the yahoo server.

thanks

Art B.

It wouldn't work with pop so incoming is imap. Which was not my first choice. And this is just the regular yahoo mail server that is connected with att, it is not the yahoo plus service which is a totally different thing.