Q: Do I need these SMTP account names?
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Oct 2, 2014 7:50 AMby brenden dv,Hi Roger Barre,
For each email account there will usually be two email servers listed, one for incoming mail and one for outgoing mail. In the case of iCloud, IMAP is used for incoming and SMTP is used for outgoing, as listed in the following article:
iCloud: Mail server settings for email clients
If you are having issues sending email or connecting to the iCloud SMTP servers, you may find the following article helpful, in particular the portion under the heading If you can receive messages but not send messages:
iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Mail
Regards,
- Brenden
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Oct 2, 2014 8:01 AMby Roger Barre,The odd thing is I have no problem sending mail at all through these two accounts. But still, in Mail Connection Doctor, the two IiCloud IMAP accounts have green lights next to them, and the two smtp.mac.com accounts have red lights next to them.
When I go into Mail Preferences:Accounts I see the outgoing mail server selected for each is iCloud, not SMTP.
Does this make sense?
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Oct 2, 2014 2:20 PMby Roger Barre,It gets weirder.
I went into Preferences, and for each count chose the SMTP server and checked "Use only this server".
I closed Preferences and re-opened it: the SMTP server choice had reverted to the iCloud IMAP server. And it works fine. So I'm still able to send and receive, but Prefs keeps choosing iCloud IMAP as the outgoing servers. That's all fine ... my only question remains why when I open Mail Connection Doctor do I see a red dot next to the SMTP servers and a message saying trying to log in failed?
