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Rio - Sep 23, 2005 5:42:13 pm PDT #4654 of 10003

Are you ready to be strong?

OK I have a big problem. My computer crashed violently a few days ago. I had to erase and reformat my hard drive, which was very painful, as I lost a lot of stuff that meant a lot to me. Not to mention all the songs in my iTunes. ANYWAYS. I reloaded my programs, and now I can't send email from my house. I could send it from the Apple store, which leads me to believe it's a port problem. I don't understand why the port number would have changed just because I reloaded Apple Mail, which is my mail program, but whatevs.

We get Internet access from my upstairs sister's Airport. Her ISP is Ameritech AND/OR SBC Yahoo, she's not sure. Any idea what my settings should look like in Apple Mail? My mail account is a .mac account, and right now the settings are as follows:

Incoming mail server: mail.mac.com
Outgoing mail server: smtp.mac.com:[MY NAME]
Server port: 25 [I'VE CHANGED THIS TO 143 BUT THAT DOESN'T WORK EITHER SO I CHANGED IT BACK]
Authentication: password

PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT I'M DOING WRONG. I AM GOING CRAZY OVER HERE.

Please note that I can receive mail just fine; I just can't send it. I get a "port timed out" message when I try.

Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2005 5:47:50 pm PDT #4655 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Are you using Apple Mail?

Try these settings:

Outgoing mail server: smtp.mac.com
Server Port: 25
✓ Use SSL
Authentication: Password
Username: [YOUR NAME]
Password: [YOUR PASSWORD]

Rio - Sep 23, 2005 5:48:41 pm PDT #4656 of 10003

Are you ready to be strong?

That's how they're set right now, but still, no go.

Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2005 5:52:23 pm PDT #4657 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Are you sure that the username and password are correct? Does your iDisk work? Can you log in here using the same username and password?

Rio - Sep 23, 2005 5:54:58 pm PDT #4658 of 10003

Are you ready to be strong?

Yes, I can log in there. Well, on there it says my username is [myname]@mac.com, whereas in Mail I had it set to just [myname]. But when I tried to add the @mac.com, it just erased it automatically, like it didn't need it. So what now?

Rio - Sep 23, 2005 5:59:01 pm PDT #4659 of 10003

Are you ready to be strong?

How can I tell if my iDisk works?

Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2005 6:00:03 pm PDT #4660 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Try port 587.

Rio - Sep 23, 2005 6:01:42 pm PDT #4661 of 10003

Are you ready to be strong?

WOOOO TOM SCOLA WILL YOU MARRY ME???!?!?

Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2005 6:04:19 pm PDT #4662 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

YES!!!

Its likely that port 25 is getting filtered by your ISP, in an attempt to block outgoing spam. Port 587 is an alternate port that some mail servers use, which luckily includes .mac.

Rio - Sep 23, 2005 6:05:03 pm PDT #4663 of 10003

Are you ready to be strong?

I'm so excited!

Where's my ring?!

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