Alternate outgoing server
When the primary outgoing server is not available, can Mail be set up to automatically send using an alternate server? In the general settings dialog box, the only choices when outgoing server is unavailable is "show a list of alternate servers" or "automatically try sending later." I have only two outgoing servers on my account, and if the primary is not available, I'd like Mail to automatically use the other one.
no, you can't automate this. an alternate smtp server always has to be chosen by hand.
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Can I use an alternate outgoing server in mail on ipad2?
I would like to use the gmail server gmail as my primary outgoing server rather than my me.com account. I can't seem to turn off the primary server it only allows me to add an additional sever as a secondary or back up. Thoughts?
Basically I want my reply emails to show as from my gmail account.yes you certainly can. and by searching those keywords on google you'll find very detailed step by step setup guides.
but i recommend you using a third party app instead of the apple Mail for one big reason:
if you use Mail to send messages, your sent mail will not be stored under your gmail server, meaning, as you go on to the actual Gmail webpage, you wont be able to find the messages you sent from apple's Mail app.. if you have been using Gmail as your primary email database, i highly recommend you not to use the default Mail app.. I only use apple Mail to download attachments to iphone/ipad and open/save them with different apps (such as Phone Drive, Downloads..etc) which have the ability to open different file formats and have a file manager system. -
How can I avoid re-configuring my outgoing server when travelling?
I have always "reconfigured" my 'outgoing server' -- the smtp setting under MAIL preferences -- when travelling outside my ISP's service area. (For 12 years with Eudora, and now 4 years with MAIL). But often at hotels, or in airports, it's not possible to get the info, that is, the smtp designator for the ISP serving the hotel or airport. When unable to get that info, I have to revert to using my home ISP's "webmail" which is clunky, limited, slow, inflexible, and doesn't integrate well with my Apple MAIL later. I hate using it.
When I AM able to get the local smtp designator info when on the road, it nearly always does the trick and I am able to do all my email work as I would back at my home office.
However, recently, I stayed with a friend on the west coast, (let's call him Brian) who is something of a Mac expert, but he was unable to confidently give me the smtp designators for his local ISP-- apparently because he never has to change his smtp configuration when on the road! Like me, he uses two servers, that is, he is connected at his home via the phone company's DSL service using a high speed modem, but he likes to retain the email address he had originally got from an earlier ISP he used, back when he was on dial-up. So he pays that ISP a monthly $5.00 to allow him to continue to use the email address he has had since being their customer way back when. So we called both of Brian's ISP's and got their smtp designators. However, neither of these, when plugged into my MAIL preferences, would allow me to "send" using Apple MAIL and I was again obliged to use my clunky webmail.
Now, it seems to me he is being "relayed" (is that the right term?) by the phone company sending outgoing mail over to the older ISP, and the older ISP relays his mail over to the phone company's server to give him his incoming mail. When I am visiting him, this may be to confusing for the smtp configuration in my MAIL.
I would think not, though, because I have a similar setup: I connect to a cable company modem from my home on the east coast, but my address is the one I got from our local phone company before high-speed became available to us via the cable TV service. When we switched from the phone company's dial-up to the cable company's high- speed, we kept the original email address --which was specific to the phone company-- and we pay $5.00 per month for the privilege. Seems very similar to Brian's setup.
However, at Brian's, changing the smtp designator doesn't work to allow me to send emails from Apple's MAIL program.
Brian tells me he doesn't have to do this smtp change when he travels, with his Apple MAIL. He doesn't know why I do it, nor why I should have to. I suspect, that unknown to him, his ISP has some kind of setup whereby his smtp designation is a sort of "universal" outgoing server designation, and his outgoing emails are accepted no matter which ISP he is using when away from home. And I think my MAIL configuration must be incompatible with that. This is just my suspicion.
So my questions are:
1. why doesn't Brian have to re-configure his smtp outgoing server when he travels? and...
2. how can I get that kind of universal "email send-ability" when I travel, and not have to be challenged with having to re-do my outgoing server when travelling, using Apple's MAIL?
Any insights will be most gratefully received!!!!
PS I'm using Snow Leopard on MacBook 10.6.8; I think Brian is using Leopard on a 15-in Powerbook.Many email providers allow you to send from outside their network if you set up authentication to their servers in your outgoing mail server setup. You may wish to confirm this with your email provider, but you can just try this:
1) Go to the Accounts preference in Mail
2) Select your email account
3) On the Account Information tab, locate the "Outgoing Mail Server" section and pull the menu down to "Edit SMTP Server list"
4) Select the appropriate outgoing server and go to the Advanced tab
5) In the Authentication pulldown, select "Password" and enter in your email account ID and password
6) Click all the applicable "OK" buttons to close it all up and save the information.
That may work with your email provider, or they may have additional settings needed such as "Use Security Sockets Layer (SSL)". Your provider should be able to tell you what specific settings you need if the basic user name and password don't work.
Regards. -
Some time ago I used to use an outgoing mail server, which I will call 'XYZ'. However I changed email providers and now have a new outgoing server which I will call 'ABC'. I tried deleting that old outgoing server when I changed email providers but had problems doing so. So what I did was completely delete all email accounts from my iPad and then reinstalled the two new email accounts from scratch, complete with the new outgoing server 'ABC'. That appeared to be successful, and I can receive email OK. Also the new server 'ABC' is the ONLY outgoing server listed in my settings on either account
However despite the new server being the only one in my settings the iPad will not send mail and shows an error message saying that the settings for the OLD server 'XYZ' are incorrect. I cannot amend or delete that server as it has already been deleted and is not listed in my settings.
It is like the iPad is somehow still remembering that old server and thinks it's the primary one. Or it's getting old server info fron iCloud or something.
My iPhone has the same two email accounts and identical settings and does not have this issue.
Any ideas, other than a complete factory reset?
Many thanks
RobFrom the Mail menu bar, select
Window ▹ Connection Doctor
Click the Show Detail button. A drawer opens. Click Check Again and post the text that appears. Anonymize any personal information before posting. -
Can't SEND email from Telus account in Alberta, Canada, unless I go to web mail. Does anyone know how to set up the Outgoing server? Incoming is fine. Outgoing used to work. We changed it when we went to another location, and can't get it back. Telus support can't fix it. Neither smtp.telus.net NOR mail.telus.net works for Outgoing server to send mail. Please help! Thanks.
iOS: Unable to send or receive email
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3899
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http://appletoolbox.com/2012/01/server-does-not-allow-relaying-email-error-fix/
Why Does My iPad Say "Cannot Connect to Server"?
http://www.ehow.co.uk/info_8693415_ipad-say-cannot-connect-server.html
iOS: 'Mailbox Locked', account is in use on another device, or prompt to re-enter POP3 password
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2621
iPad Mail
http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/mail/
Try this first - Reset the iPad by holding down on the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. (This is equivalent to rebooting your computer.)
Or this - Delete the account in Mail and then set it up again. Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Accounts Tap on the Account, then on the red button that says Remove Account.
Cheers, Tom -
Thunderbird will not send email through default, outgoing server.
I have two outgoing email servers: Optomum (NY) and TWC (North Carolina). In North Carolina TWC worked perfect. Now I am in NY and changed the default setting for the outgoing server to Optomum. This is the error message I get, “Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to SMTP server mail.twc.com timed out. Try again…” At first I thought that a change to the default outgoing server would not take effect until Thunderbird was shut down and restarted. That was not the case. Then I thought to reboot computer. Still NG. Although Optimum is set as default, Thunderbird still wants to send through TWC. Need fix.
jkI think you mis understand the default. It is usaed when the one assigned to the account can not be determined.
Tools menu (alt+T) account settings > select the account name and change to the appropriate SMTP server in the drop down list. -
Mail takes a long time to connect to outgoing server
This has been touched upon in a number of threads but I'll post my own particular version in case anyone can throw any light on it.
When sending emails (Mail 3.6, OS10.5.8) it can take up to 1 minute for Mail to connect to the outgoing server. In the "Activity" window I get the message "Connecting to [server name]" for up to a minute, then finally Mail connects and the message goes through instantly.
This happens with any of three or four outgoing servers I have available. If I send another message immediately after the first, it is sent straight away.
I've tried the usual disk repairs, repairing permissions etc. I've thrown away Mail prefs and the Envelope Index etc. Tried with and without SSL. MY ISP can see no problem at their end and no problem with any of my settings, and other computers on the same network have no problem.
Anyone have any further ideas?
(I did post a similar problem in an earlier thread: in that case (OS10.4.11) mail would connect straight away but on sending the "100% complete" message would be shown for up to a minute. It is possible and even likely that the new behaviour is just a different manifestation of the same problem. Weird that it's still there after upgrading to OS10.5)
IanGHi,
This is a characteristic of some, but not all, ISPs, and not the SMTP itself. It involves DNS. See:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10391853�
Ernie -
I love my apple email and do not want to use google mail on safari. However, I have 2 gmail accounts set up on apple mail, but when I send mail from one of my gmail accounts (I choose the specific gmail account in the drop down window), it actually goes out as if it is from the other gmail account. I can't have that happen because one is my job, the other is a personal business account and unfortunately, the mail from both gmail accounts want to send through the personal business account. How do I make it send from a specific gmail account? I even tried deleting the accounts and setting them up again hoping I set it up wrong in the first place, but to no avail, it is still doing the same thing except this time I set the job account up first and then the personal business account and now everything goes from the job account! The only good thing is that the incoming messages work properly and they go into the correct inbox. Somebody please fix my outbox!
In Mail Preferences/Accounts/each GMail account, set up the SMTP Outgoing Server for each account separately, going into SMTP name/edit/Advanced and specify the Username of each account. The Outgoing servers must be two different servers, authenticated by the Username and Password of each.
Otherwise, the GMail SMTP server will change the from address to that of the account where the SMTP server was setup.
Ernie -
Dealing with two email accounts that use the same SMTP (outgoing) server
Folks:
re: mail.app 5.2 (MacOS 10.7.4) with respect to POP accounts only
I've read this thread multiple times, spent many hours experimenting, and my web searches haven't come up with any more useful help.
How do you persuade mail.app to accept settings for two similar, but distinct email accounts that use the same SMTP (outgoing) server? Say, the accounts are "blue.example.com" and "[email protected]". These have different user names and passwords. The SMTP server is "smtp.example.com".
I think this is the appearance of success: the SMTP Server List (as seen in edit-the SMTP-Server-List mode) shows:
Server Name In Use By Account
smtp.example.com [email protected], [email protected]
(Description column omitted for brevity. And of course, mail.app doesn't show the little envelope icons.)
But I cannot reliably achieve this result. When I select the SMTP server from the list for the second account --as suggested in the above-referenced thread--- I see the credentials (user name and password) for the first. Should I overwrite them? No, I don't think so -- I think that will break the first account. I feel mail.app should present me with empty credentials boxes instead. Maybe this happens -- sometimes. But I can't see how to make it happen. Am I simply overlooking something?
A slightly different way of asking about this issue: Suppose I manage to do a proper setup for the two accounts and they work. Then I change the password for "[email protected]" on the server. What is a reliable way of reaching the SMTP credentials for that account to make the edit? Same question for "[email protected]"? Even when I successfully attach two accounts to one SMTP server, I seem only able to reach the first listed one to make changes. (In this case, "blue.example.com").
It is possible I'm missing something incredibly obvious... I know the credentials for each account are distinct, but maybe mail.app copies them from the POP (incoming) settings. Nah, that can't be, can it? Or what?
Maybe I'm seeing bizarre things due to scrambled mail.app preferences. I've seen it before on other apps: delete the current preference file, get an auto-generated fresh one, and sanity returns. But with mail.app, with the prospect of losing years of emails --yeah, I've done it-- I'm extremely reluctant to mess around.
Suggestions, please.
TIA
Message was edited by: Hen3ry to clean up the table a little and add a parenthetical explanation.OK, I'm convinced. The mail.app UI is BROKEN -- in my primary user account. Such that it cannot reliably select an outgoing server for editing.
I created a new user account and installed some relevant example accounts in mail.app in that account. No problem. Well, a bit obscure, but still fully logical and reliable selection of individual SMTP accounts for editing.
For the sake of clarity, I think it is best to mark this "answered" and repost, focusing on the symptoms and asking how one might go about repairing the problem. So I'll do that. -
Outgoing server settings for MAC MAIL with multiple accounts?!
if i got paid to do this, my outgoing mail server issues would be somewhat amusing but as it stands they are really extremely annoying.
i have multiple email accounts (multiple addresses with multiple hosts - gmails, domain based email, me.com address etcetera).
does ANYONE know if there is an FAQ on what is recommended with respect to the settings on whether to tell mail to ONLY USE the one outgoing server and/or anything with the other settings?
i feel like i am in a pachinko parlor when i send mail because there is constantly an error of some kind and then i try dropping the mail through a different outgoing server by selecting a different one from the list and i just do this until it goes out. oftentimes i don't find out it didn't go out until the NEXT DAY becasue i am working and this alert gets hidden behind my other windows where i do actual productive work.
any ideas? i have two domain based websites (multiple emails with two SMTP addresses), two GMail accounts and me.com...
THANKS!hi. CS. thanks.
do you know what this does as a practical matter? i mean, is it NECESSARY to check this box? will it try other outgoing servers and NOT WORK if you don't check this box? conversely, will it NOT try other outgouing servers if this one is unavailable if i check this (presumably the answer is yes here). i mean - am i likely to run into fewer problems by checking this box and i assume it is necessary to use the OUTGOING SERVER of the actual domain you are trying to send mail from as opposed to - for example - using GMAIL outgoing server for everything because you think you will get less errors than sending from your email domain outgoing server.
you know what i am saying? i mean, i get a bootload of errors and actually can't send mail these days even though Connection Doctor is telling me everything is hunky dory.
also, what is meant by "Offline"? do i have to go in and tell it to take everything on line for some reason and is this totally separate (telling it to go online) from checking things in Connection Doctor?
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Trying to set up my iPad for mail and despite my clearly writing my outgoing server as AAPT it changes itself to big pond by default and so I can't send or receive . How do iI get the system to accept AAPT as my outgoing server? Help please
JackfromqldI am trying to figure out what you said, but I haven't a clue. Can you be much more explicit about what your issue is?
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How do I get my outgoing server to work on my Iphone 5
I bought my Iphone 5 from Apple when it was first available. I have had an ATT acount for many years along with an MSN email account. I have had issues with sending email from my IPhone 5 since I have recieved this phone. I have deleted and readded the email application numberous times(sometimes 10 times a day), I have reset my phone a number of times, I have also changed my email password a number of times and readded to both my incoming server and outgoing server passwords. I have spoken to ATT tech support, Apple Tech support and Msn tech support multiple times, they have not been able to help me. I sometimes have gotten it to work for a few minutes to a couple of hours but as soon as I try to send an email from my phone again it will no longer send an email from my phone. I use my phone for work and this is very annoying as I have to use my email for work.I need help! I have had Iphones since the first Iphone and Mac computers for over 10 years but I am now over it, at this point I would not recommend Iphones. I am now at the point of buying a phone that I can use and it will not be an Apple Iphone.
jenylark wrote: I have deleted and readded the email application numberous times(sometimes 10 times a day),
No, you simply have not. It is not possible to delete the email application on the iPhone.
Let's assume that the email accounts were deleted and re-added, if this is done properly, the email accounts simply work.
So delete whatever account is on the phone, add them back correctly and it will simply work.
Follow the instructions provided by the email provider to add the account to the device. -
I have an iMac, and have a Verizon DSL account (3 email addresses). Recently, my Mac Mail keeps requesting the passwords on my accounts every few minutes, and will not allow me to send messages using Mac Mail (the message says that the outgoing server was rejected. I cannot edit the outgoing server, and the keychain will not save my passwords (the ports are valid). How can I change the outgoing server to send emails, and how can I avoid having Mail request my passwords every 2 minutes? Verizon, as usual, will not provide support to iMacs.
Is there an email saved in your drafts or outbox folder? I suspect that Mail is continually trying to send it, and each time Google is rejecting the email message.
You can open the message and then delete it from your Outbox folder. Then try removing all @gmail email addresses from it and seeing whether you can send to the other folks. I suspect that will work.
With email, if an SMTP server *can* verify email addresses, sometimes it will and it will refuse to send messages. If a message has to be relayed across servers, no verification is done, and you'll get a bounce if an email address is bad. -
How do i put in password for outgoing server on email account
From yesterday afternoon I cannot get emails, or send them, on ipad, ipod or PC using Mozilla. On Ipad and ipod it tells me my password is wrong. I have tried re-entering password but cannot remember how to put password in for the outgoing server. Can anyone help please?
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Your Email Account > Outgoing Mail Server > Outgoing Mail Server you want to edit > User Name & Password
Be sure to tap on Save or Done When finished. -
I have a work email account where the password for my incoming server is different than the password for my outgoing server. I cannot find how to change this in the outgoing server settings on thunderbird. Any help would be very appreciated!
Try to add another SMTP server using correct password then tell the mail account to use that smtp server.
* Tools > Account settings > Outgoing Server (SMTP)
* click on 'Add'
* enter a Description so you can easily tell which server this is.
* enter server details.
* userbame = full email address
* password = correct smtp password.
* click on OK
Then tell your mail account to use that smtp server.
* select the mail account name in left column
* bottom right section 'Outgoing server (SMTP)
* click on drop down and select the smtp server you just added.
* click on OK to save changes to Account Settings.
Note: Account Settings can be located via various methods:
Menu Bar
* Tools > Account settings
Mail Toolbar:
* menu icon > Options > Account Settings
FolderPane:
* right click on mail account and select 'Settings'
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