Cannot send messages in gmail after uploading Yosemite

Like many others, I have not been able to send Gmail messages after uploading Yosemite 3 days ago. The response is always the same, a server notification, Gmail (offline). I've tried several different "fixes" on the Gmail side with no luck. They include the deactivating/reactivating SHOW IN IMAP function and deleting my Gmail account and re-loading it. Does anyone have anything new on this? This really stinks.

I'm not sure what exactly I did that finally fixed it, but I erased my iCloud and Gmail accounts, restarted the phone, and added Gmail first. But I removed Gmail so many times who knows what actually did it.

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Since updating to iOS 5, I cannot send email from my Gmail account on my iPhone. I receive email fine, but when trying to send I get the error:
Cannot Send Mail
Check the settings for the outgoing servers in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars
I have erased my Gmail account and re-set it up numerous times, and restarted my phone in between doing so. The wizard works perfectly fine, my password is accepted, and like I mentioned email comes in perfectly. I do not have this problem sending mail from iCloud on the same phone.
One thing I did do is attempt setting Gmail up as an Exchange account so that I could use push, but it killed my battery so I erased it. This might have been when the problem began but I'm not positive.

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I cannot send emails, only receive, after upgrade to Yosemite today, Apple should resolve this issue. Any help more than welcome. Thanks in response to Pita Fito I have contacted three more people that made the upgrade and they have the same problem

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in response to Pita Fito
I have contacted three more people that made the upgrade and they have the same problem. My advise is not to upgrade until Apple solves the serious issue, I would hate to have to re-install Outlook...

I can send e-mails just fine with apple mail on yosemite...
Might not be a generic problem but rather a personal problem..
You should try find a fix rather than waiting on apple.
Hopefully somebody can help you out.
More than happy to help with your settings/preference pain... And compare mine with yours...
If you send some screenshots... I can send you my equivalent... So maybe you can figure it out.
Is it a gmail or icloud email acount? Can be of more help if it is.

After TB 31.5.0 cannot send or receive gmail. Spinning status wheel. Server timeout.

Updated to 31.5.0 and now cannot send or receive gmail from my desktop. Message is that the server timed out and there is a spinning status wheel. Windows 8.1. Tried reinstalling, rebooting, running TB in safe mode, turning off Win firewall, disabling Avast system security, compacting folders. I can get/send mail at the gmail website and on my iPhone so the problem appears to be specific to Thunderbird 31.5.0 My laptop has an older version of TB and it does not have the problem. Luckily I was able to shut it down before TB 31.5.0 could automatically download.

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Cannot send messages after crash, the solutions offered didn't work.

On Tuesday (april 7) there was an update to 31.6. On Thursday there was a crash. Since then cannot send messages. The solutions offered didn't work.
I'm getting the message that the SMTP-server doesn't support the selected authentication.
I tried the solution mentioned. But nothing helps. I configured the outgoing server on the different types and deleted the password as mentioned. After that I did the configuration with the different types of configuration again. No solution.
There is not a web-mail possibility. So I'm stuck now.
There is no problem with the incoming messages, they are coming in. Should this password be deleted also?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Greetings,
AZ58.

Check with your email provider about the correct server settings, and compare that with your account settings.
There is no point guessing or trying arbitrary combinations of settings.

I cannot send emails, only receive, after upgrade to Yosemite today, Apple should resolve this issue. Any help more than welcome. Thanks

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BTW. I have seen posts suggesting age of Mac has an affect. Mine is MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
The mail I am having problems send is Exchange and google mail. The google client I re-installed and this had no affect.

I tried to send a mail message to too many addees. when the rejection came back "cannot send message using the server..." the window is too long to be able to see the choices at the bottom of it. how can i see the choices at the bottom of that window?

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I'm not concerned about sending to the long address list. I just can't get the email and window that says "cannot send emai using the server..." to go away. The default must be "retry", because although I cannot see the choices at the bottom of the window if I hit return it trys again... and then of course comes back with the very long pop up window that I cannot see the bottom of so I can tell it to quit trying...

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AllanQuatermain wrote:
Yes, I'm getting this as well. Anyone know what gives here please? Mod comment would be appreciated. Thanks.
"An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: Transaction failed : Cannot send message due to possible abuse; please visit for more information. Please check the message and try again."
It is almost certainly a server issue of some form affecting some users. I expect the message is being received due to a strange condition being interpreted poorly by the system.
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Disable mail.app message "cannot send message"

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I'm working offline from time to time, but Mail.app keeps generating these annoying messages saying that he "cannot send message" and that "the server cannot be contacted", after trying to send alert messages (generated by Calendar.app)
Well I know that the server cannot be contacted.. that's because I'm not connected, because I don't have an internet connection.
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Nokia N95 Cannot send messages

Hi I hope this is the right place to post this!
I can't seem to be able to send messages on my Nokia N95. I got it in the middle of December. Great phone and no problems whatsoever.
However the other night I was unable to send messages. They would immediately go straight to the outbox and sit there saying they would resend.
However it fixed itself randomly and began sending messages again. I did nothing. Kept the phone on changed no settings.
Today though it's gone again and this time i haven't been able to send any messages for the past 12 hours. I can make calls, receive calls and receive messages I just cannot send messages.
I've checked my message centre details. Everything is correct for my network 02.
I tried my sim card in my other phone and it sends messages fine.
You name it i've tried it...deleting message centres...adding new ones...it still just sends them straight to the outbox though!
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As for the message problem, if you are getting the same issue after your restore, I would say it is probable a program or file that is causing the conflict and the only way to deal with that is by process of illimination.
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On PC Suite I can only restore the entire backup. How do I restore only parts of the backup? I really only need to keep my contacts. Everything else like the maps I can download again if need be.

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"Cannot send message using the server....."

Hi all,
Considering the nature of the problem I am about to relate I would have to say at the outset that I would be very very surprised if other people have not come across this problem, so here goes...
We have around 60 users of Apple Mail from both 10.4 and 10.5, so varying degrees of versions of Apple Mail however most if not all are updated to 10.4.11 and 10.5.2.
We have been plagued with people being frustrated about emails bouncing back with an immediate error which is basically the following...
"Cannot send message using the server smtp.xxx.com:user
Sending the message content to the server failed.
Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below etc etc"
I am sure a lot of you have seen this error.
However, it is totally random but I am at the end of my tether with it. It generally revolves around emails with attachments and can be totally random. I was trying to send a screenshot today, very small screenshot, using the Apple-Shift-4 technique, sent the .png file, then saved it out as a .jpg, nothing. Tiny file, around 5k. Got the error above, took it out, sent no problem. Other similar files on the desktop refused to send but a .pdf did. I then thought it might be our server, so sent teh same attachments using my .mac account. Same result and failed to send. Reports from other users in our group show that they too get random results, maybe moving the attachment in the email makes it go, sometimes putting it before your signature, sometimes putting your signature copied and pasted in so many times makes it work, all sorts of methods but all resulting in the same conclusion, Apple Mail can be very unreliable.
We have even migrated some users to Entourage and the problem disappears. Even to Thunderbird, but those users miss the search capability as it is quicker and more reliable. So they want to go back.
Considering I have been struggling with this issue back in the day when we were on the Apple Mail related version in 10.4 I was hoping that the version released in 10.5 would remedy the problems. Sometimes I feel it has just got worse.
Is anyone else experiencing this sort of difficulty in Apple Mail, I really feel isolated and at a loss with how to remedy this for so many users.
If anyone can share their experiences and how they have got around similar issues in Mail I am all ears and open to any suggestions.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to read through this. There is more but the experiences are so random it is not worth trying to put it all down.
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I went in to Connection Doctor and. oddly enough, for this Mac account it said I was on Port 25. Si I changed it to Port 587 and saved the changes.
Still, I have the same problem with the same error messages.
I go back to the mail preferences > Accounts > Advanced and it shows Port 143 still there grayed out.
What about SSL - it's not checked.
Odd that this problem only seems to be from one .mac account emailing to another .mac account. Could the server be down?

Cannot send message using the server (null)

i use mail 2.1.
i have a .mac account and have three other email accounts attached to my mail account.
lately, i cannot send any email.
the switchiing ports fix hasn't helped either.
this is the error message:
CANNOT SEND MESSAGE USING THE SERVER (null)
The server response was: 5.1.0 <email [email protected]>...
From address does not match authentication.
Use the pop-up menu below to try a different outgoing mail server. All messages will use this server until you quit Mail or change your network settings.
Message from: email <[email protected]>
Send message using: [there is a combo box here with all the four accounts servers listed]
no matter which one i pick it doesn't work and no email is sent.
anyone have this error before? or now how to fix it?
i'd be appreciative.
thanks
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I was having a similar problem (don't feel like typing all the details)
I was about to to delete my com.apple.mail.plist, when finally it hit me.
I ran ethereal (again, I'm sorry, but learning how to use ethereal is a topic unto itself). Following the TCP stream (ie. looking at the smtp messages being sent back and forth) I came across two problems. For some reason my port number was set to 567 or something like that, when it's supposed to be 25, as I had originally set it to.
Once I corrected the port number I started receiving an error message from the smtp server. It said the return email address could not be authenticated. (using xyz.com as an example) The correct return email address was supposed to be [email protected], but for some reason it was changed to john@xyz in the account settings.
Anyway, to get to the point, another thing to check is that your return address has been set correctly, and if all else fails, make sure you have X11 installed and use fink to install and run ethereal. This will let you know if you are actually connecting to the server, and will show you any error messages.
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Cannot Send Messages Using the Server

I am dependent (during the day) on a wireless connection to the Minneapolis Wi-Fi system (U.S. Wireless).
I've got an e-mail account with comcast and I have successfully interfaced this with the Apple Mail application that came with OS X 10.5.4 and for many weeks have been happily sending and receiving e-mails. But....
I've been on the road and had to connect with Hotel internet services and I was picking up free WiFi in NYC when I was there.
I first noticed the problem when I was staying at a hotel in Vermont.
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CANNOT SEND MESSGE USING THE SERVER __________.
Select a different outgoing mail server....
Now, I am back home and using my U.S. Wireless connection (which has been really bad lately).
I keep getting these blasted messages and my mail sometimes goes through but more than often, I get these "cannot send message.." notices and my e-mail just sits there going nowhere in the outbox.
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Beside the SMTP name -- smtp.comcast.net -- there is a pair of arrows, with one pointing up and one pointing down. If you click on those arrows you will be presented with a list of all SMTP ever enter (you may only have one), and also the command to Edit Server List. If you choose Edit Server List, you will be presented with a completely new setup window, dealing only with SMTP servers, and that window will have two tabs, one of which is also Advanced.
From the name, smtp.comcast.net, without your Username appended, would indicate that an Authentication of None is currently in effect. With changes that Comcast has made recently, whether you use Port 25 or Port 587, I believe you would have to use Password Authentication, most certainly if the latter Port 587 is chosen.
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