After fixing the Outgoing Mail problem, I found I had another with an applet I use called MailForward. It gathers up email from Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. and brings it to my ISP, Comcast.
Comcast automatically downloads it into MacMail on my computer. I believe Entourage does that also, but I don't trust Entourage.
Anyway, I emailed MailForward because it stopped working about the same time as MacMail.
This is the reply I received:
Several of our Comcast Mail Forward users have reported that Comcast recently changed the login requirements for their SMTP server. You will need to change your settings in Mail Forward to the ones shown on our SMTP Server Settings web page:
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.comcast.net
SMTP Options dialog (click SMTP Options to display):
Secure Connection (SSL): ON
Authentication Type: Login
User Name: Your Comcast account user name
Password: Your Comcast account password
===================================
It's possible that other ISP's changed login requirements for their SMTP servers.
Well I was excited about the smtp server change from:
smtp.att.yahoo.com
to:
smtp.mail.yahoo.com
That's been more reliable but not 100%. Often I get sends that seem to stall and then get a "read failure" - a try or two later and it goes through but it's still a problem.
Brennan and Deerfield.com are by no means alone, judging from DSLReports threads here, here and here. All these forums report a familiar pattern: people who get their email from Yahoo.com, PacBell.net, BellSouth.net, or other domain names controlled by AT&T noticed a big drop in the amount of spam beginning sometime late last week. But at the same time, many of these users also found they were unable to receive email from legitimate sources.
In addition to killing spam they have killed my ability to use my business email address with their dsl service, my problem can't send mail correctly it started in the last 1-2 weeks
my dsl service recieveing but not sending unless I hit the send button a dozen times
smtp.att.yahoo.com - port 465
pop3 third party mail.leaseorsale.biz - port 110
the problem att/yahoo will authenicate my third party incoming email address from my pop3 account to allow my mail to go out using att/yahoo even thlough the att login is varifyed.
i've tried everything. 6-8 hrs reading ,calling still no fix
i also have sbc/att dsl internet here at home and have for months been using internet email instead of my old trusty Mail.app on my powerbook g4 that i used to use when i was overseas and the internet providers just didnt give me such troubles.
i had tried to fix it in the past and got so frustrated that i always gave up! i entered "mailhost.worldnet.att.net" as my outgoing smtp server at port 465 with SSL, and i for the first time i was able to SEND an email! (from my gmail acct.)
however...while the other person successfully received it, it simply disappeared from my outbox, never even went into the Sent box and the proof that i ever wrote it is nowhere to be found. where did it go? why didn't it go into my sent box? where do i turn to fix this?
i am so lost...any help, please? im not too techy, but im tryin. thanks a lot.
I could receive but not send from Mail also for the last few days (early Dec 08) -I am using Leopard but with my Hong Kong ISP (netfront) - tried changing back to no password, then resetting back to my normal name/password again - but still failed. But resolved the problem simply by editing the outgoing mail server and setting it to "no password" at all and "whoosh" away when all my stored/failed "sent mail". Seems like I only need a password to receive and not to send email - but at least it now works
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Comcast automatically downloads it into MacMail on my computer. I believe Entourage does that also, but I don't trust Entourage.
Anyway, I emailed MailForward because it stopped working about the same time as MacMail.
This is the reply I received:
Several of our Comcast Mail Forward users have reported that Comcast recently changed the login requirements for their SMTP server. You will need to change your settings in Mail Forward to the ones shown on our SMTP Server Settings web page:
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.comcast.net
SMTP Options dialog (click SMTP Options to display):
Secure Connection (SSL): ON
Authentication Type: Login
User Name: Your Comcast account user name
Password: Your Comcast account password
===================================
It's possible that other ISP's changed login requirements for their SMTP servers.
smtp.att.yahoo.com
to:
smtp.mail.yahoo.com
That's been more reliable but not 100%. Often I get sends that seem to stall and then get a "read failure" - a try or two later and it goes through but it's still a problem.
Brennan and Deerfield.com are by no means alone, judging from DSLReports threads here, here and here. All these forums report a familiar pattern: people who get their email from Yahoo.com, PacBell.net, BellSouth.net, or other domain names controlled by AT&T noticed a big drop in the amount of spam beginning sometime late last week. But at the same time, many of these users also found they were unable to receive email from legitimate sources.
In addition to killing spam they have killed my ability to use my business email address with their dsl service, my problem can't send mail correctly it started in the last 1-2 weeks
my dsl service recieveing but not sending unless I hit the send button a dozen times
smtp.att.yahoo.com - port 465
pop3 third party mail.leaseorsale.biz - port 110
the problem att/yahoo will authenicate my third party incoming email address from my pop3 account to allow my mail to go out using att/yahoo even thlough the att login is varifyed.
i've tried everything. 6-8 hrs reading ,calling still no fix
i had tried to fix it in the past and got so frustrated that i always gave up! i entered "mailhost.worldnet.att.net" as my outgoing smtp server at port 465 with SSL, and i for the first time i was able to SEND an email! (from my gmail acct.)
however...while the other person successfully received it, it simply disappeared from my outbox, never even went into the Sent box and the proof that i ever wrote it is nowhere to be found. where did it go? why didn't it go into my sent box? where do i turn to fix this?
i am so lost...any help, please? im not too techy, but im tryin. thanks a lot.