what to do, when your outgoing mail gets stuck in the outbox, the server comes up as offline...grr
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
What does Mail's connection doctor say when you attempt to send?
Have you tried 'Take All Accounts Online' on the Mailbox menu?
I'm having the same problem. At first I couldn't get incoming mail on my Leopard MacBoook Pro, but I could send from Mail. Then I read how to fix the "incoming" problem. That's fixed, but now "outgoing" isn't working. I've tried with both the old server and the new iCloud server. This is getting to be a real problem.
iCloud mail server information is here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864
Have you checked all of these settings?
Changing the port to 587 seems to have done the trick.
Thank you so much.
Changing the port to 587 seems to have done the trick.
Thank you so much.
Ah, but there was a step 2. I had to change my email address to @me.com, instead of @mac.com.
Well done Betty.
I wonder if aj hunter still has the problem originally reported.
I am having the same problem. Could the out going Yahoo server be down?
I had this problem too but I fixed it today.
Go to the mail menu preferences.
Click on account in question.
Select the outgoing SMTP mail server (the one offline), this has a drop down list, click on the edit server list.
Click on the advanced button.
Make sure use default port is checked.
Make sure SSL is unchecked (unless your provider requires it, mine does not work with it checked).
Have authentication set to password.
User name should be your email address for that account.
Make sure correct password is entered (for some strange reason my password box was blank on this account).
Push the ok button.
For me the SSL box was checked and the password was missing. This is strange to me considering I have unchecked the SSL Box on the mail preference advance page. Also, I went through the complete set up account when I first created the account, why was my outgoing server password box empty?
I hope this helps.
Here is a link to some visual aids with the steps from my ISP
http://support.knology.net/content/smtpauth/smtpredirect.cfm
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