My SMTP address is correct in Mail Preferences but I cannot send mail since it says the SMTP is "offline"; I've hit Try Later multiple times but it never sends.
Am receiving emails just fine; how to I get my SMTP to be "online" so that I can send emails?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 4GB RAM
Click on the Apple button on the top left hand side of the screen, select Force Quit..., select Mail, select Force Quit, and select Force Quit from the next menu. Restart your computer - then when you turn on your computer back on click Mail.
1 Force quit mail program
2 Reboot
ALSO
3 Check that you do not have two email accounts i.e IMAP and POP accounts
4 Delete IMAP account.
Steevo
Robert, thank you for your help. MY SMTP was offline due to a password change, but I didn't know I had to update it in the Outgoing field too. I followed your instructions and everything works.
Ok. I don't know why but all of a sudden it started working and sending emails. Who can figure?
After I upgraded to El Capitan, my Gmail account was offline.
I went to Mail/Preferences/Accounts and put in my password. Thank you for steering me in the right direction!
Thank you so much - it was touch and go between tears and tantrums...
Great fix.
This worked for me , sign in to your google account ,go to sign in & security, turn on allow less secure apps to on . not an apple problem lies with microsoft !
Thank you! This worked for me...
Thank you so much for this. I have been trying to fix my Comcast email for a long time and now it works!
This works the same with Yahoo. Thank you for posting.
This worked well for me. Thank you
Mail shows my SMTP is "offline": How do I get my SMTP "online"?
