iPhoto email - "Your email did not go through because the server did not reply. "

No one here can "Fix" any thing - we are all users just like yourself

We can explain how to use iPhoto and in some cases help with workarounds to bugs

From my view this does not appear to be a "bug" - it usually is simply incorrect entries by users and is corrected as follows:

Often going to the iPhoto preferences ==> accounts and deleting the problem e-mail and re-entering it will resolve problems - some times it is necessary to the the e-mail service tech support involved and set ports or other advanced settings - only they can supply those for your service

This also can be caused by third party software - Little snitch used to be one of the worst offenders although I've not seen much about it lately so maybe they addressed the issue

IMHO the best solution is not to use iPhoto as the e-mail client and use Apple Mail - set it in your iPhoto general preferences Since iPhoto does not work for your e-mail I'm confused why you prefer using it to using mail that does work - but certainly that is your choice. I personally prefer using programs that work for me to using ones that do not work for me

LN

What ever - that is a really compicated workaroud - but if you like it better than the suggestions then enjoy

LN

I'm having the same issue DRD2 and suspected it was tied to my Google Apps account as I'm able to successfully utilize my Gmail.com account.

Will be happy to utilize the solutions you have posted and report back here.

-Josh

Thanks for posting. It's ridiculous that Apple didn't just put an option to import settings from imail. Furthermore, it was not 1/10th as difficult to get gmail working on imail. I tried yahoo email and it worked immediately. Perhaps this is an attempt by apple to get gmail users to switch over to apple mail. Oh, and a big "whatever" to the pretentious apple pundits on this thread.

Regardless, it's working now. So much for "it just works". Fyi, I'm an IT admin.

Wow, an "IT admin" who doesn't know the difference between Yahoo's free and paid services, who doesn't know the name of the Mail application (it's Mail, by the way, there's no such app as "imail"), and iPhoto does import the Mail settings on first run.

On my sixth attempt to add a (yes, sixth email client) I succeeded. Fortunately my partner has a yahoo account which worked fine.

I sympathize with this iPhoto user as sometimes you invest in the "Email" export screen with all sorts of content (photo descriptions, scrapbook templates, etc) that you cannot otherwise save.

unfortunately, the 2-step verification gmail fix didn't work for me. giving up, putting photos on a thumb drive. too bad apple doesn't have smooth client-side synchronization between iPhoto and Mail -- no reason to set up an additional account if you don't have to (e.g. if you use both of those Apple applications, like many OSX users do).

+1 to yakapo's comment about "pretentious apple pundits". seems like every time i end up on apple forums there are one or two apple snobs who claim it's never apple's fault, it's the user's fault. apple has a rep for great UI, and that's generally deserved. but one central tenet of UI design: if the user can't figure it out, it's not the user's fault. it can be designed better. case in point with this issue.

too bad apple doesn't have smooth client-side synchronization between iPhoto and Mail

It does, and I use it all the time, on three different mail services - Cloud, Gmail and a Private server. It works flawlessly on all three.

it does not work flawlessly with gmail. hence this thread.

what i meant by that comment was that iphoto should be able (if the user grants it access) to use the accounts already set up with mail -- they're both apple products and they could be better integrated.

if that's possible, please let me know how.

Grigger wrote:

I sympathize with this iPhoto user as sometimes you invest in the "Email" export screen with all sorts of content (photo descriptions, scrapbook templates, etc) that you cannot otherwise save.

Precisely. The layout options in iPhoto are very nice, and it makes it possible to send a "card" to someone via email with nice pictures without much trouble.

I've been having this issue for a while and I cannot get anything to work. I have tried deleting and re-entering my mail settings (exactly as they are set in Mail), and it will not work. It will send if I show Apple Mail as the mail client, but then you don't get templates. I have tried different port settings - no go.

This feature used to work for me a while back, so I'm pretty confident that this is some sort of bug, but I don't want to get into some sort of argument about whose fault it is.

It will send if I show Apple Mail as the mail client, but then you don't get templates

Mail has templates - and more of them. Check out the Stationery.

I have the same issue, on a machine and configuration that was previously working, and from which I could send photos by email from inside iPhoto.

I shut down the iMac and relocated it from one location to another in the same room, then re-started. Network and peripherals are all wireless so apart from power there were no other cables or devices involved. After the re-start the error message "Your email did not go through because the server did not reply" appeared when I attempted to share photos by email from iPhoto.

However, before posting, just to be sure, I quit and re-started iPhoto. The issue did not re-appear. So at least for me that was a "fix" which I suggest others could try.

I agree with ddease2 that the exchange with LarryHN was not helpful. Forums like these only work when posters have respect for each other.

I stumbled across this thread because I was having the exact same issue trying to send photos from within iPhoto using one of the built-in templates. NONE of my email accounts including iCloud would work. No matter how many settings I changed and how many times I confirmed they were exactly right I received the same error message.

FIX: Ultimately I wiped every email account listed in iPhoto Preferences, closed iPhoto and reopened it. Then I added one, single email account for which I knew all of the settings (matched with the same account in my Apple Mail program). I closed iPhoto, reopened it and it (finally) started working.

I then added my iCloud account back in...most of the settings auto-filled except for the password - which I entered - and it began working as well.

FWIW after clicking on "Send" the progress bar fills quickly but then it seems to sit there a while, presumably because the file it's sending is fairly large...but eventually iPhoto confirms that the email was sent.

I can't guarantee wiping all of the email accounts listed in iPhoto and starting fresh will work for everyone or anyone else, but hope it helps!

Thanks. I was able to simply remove my gmail account, close iphoto, reopen iphoto and select email under share. When I setup the email account again, it works.

The trick is having to close iphoto before setting it up again. As with many email issues, email settings in general, do not "really" save until apps are completely closed and reopened.