Cannot send/receive mail on POP account

Sorry I read previous threads about hotmail.
I have been trying to configure a pop account and an exchange account and have been unable to do such. Using a different macbook with OS 10.5.3 I was able to successfully. Any ideas what the issue might be or how to resolve?

Hi! If you have done it successfully on another Mac then use it to confirm the settings on each mail setup page including the advanced options to make sure every field is correct. Tom

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Now what??

The plugin no longer works and will not be updated.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=818174

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Can someone help me? I can't receive emails on my POP account. I am using 10.6.8 os and apple mail 4.6. I'm able to send messages using port 587. Trying to get ready for business launch on Wednesday. Thanks for your help!

Just curious - were you ever able to receive mail or did you recently set this account up and encounter the problem?
As a paying Dreamhost customer, you should have access to their 24/7 tech support. The basic Apple mac.app account set-up is very straight-forward (at least with web mail).
If this is a new account with no received messages, simply deleting it and going through the set-up again is no big deal. Remember, use IMAP instead of POP3 to receive messages. POP3 pulls the only copy of the message off the server and delivers it to your mail client/computer. Since there is no back-up copy of the data on the server, this is bad news if anything happens to it locally.
Here's a basic tutorial on adding/deleting accounts (just in case):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84cYMuVsLp0
Check out this thread as well - appears that even after deleting an account the name of the old account might remain:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4094214?start=0&tstart=0
To summarize, I would try the following:
1.) Contact Dreamhost and explain your issue - it could be a problem on their end. Don't be shy about using their tech support; you pay for it!
2.) If Dreamhost finds nothing amiss on their end, you could delete and re-enable your account via mail.app (keeping in mind the caveats about backing-up all received POP3 messages and the potential sender account bug from the thread). Use IMAP if possible.
3.) If that does not work for you, try another Mail client. I recommend Thunderbird, but there are other free options:
http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/communication-roundup/8-awesome-alternatives-to -mail-app-on-your-mac/
I doubt that this is causing the problem, but you could also disable your firewall (System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Firewall) and see if that changes anything.
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As of 2014-March, the same thing happening on my system. This seems to have occurred, after the latest batch of 28 patches (including SP2 - KB2687455) from Microsoft Updates applied on 13-Mar-2014 and 19-Mar-2014. I have been running Outlook 2010
since it was first available.
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Not Implemented
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While reviewing the list of installed updates (Control Panel > Programs and Features > View Installed Updates), there are 28 approximate patches -
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Microsoft, what the #$%# is going on?
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issue. In fact, the new profile would not allow me to view/manage the associated accounts or data files.
(1) Remove your current Outlook Profile. No worries - this doesn't affect your mail data (.PST files):
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/outlook-help/remove-a-profile-HP010356455.aspx
(2) Create a new Outlook Profile:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/outlook-help/introduction-to-profiles-HA010355553.aspx
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I was able to resolve this issue as follows. However, why it occurred is unknown at this time and
unrelated to a corrupted Outlook Profile, as mentioned on my prior post. It seems highly probable that it was caused by the recent batch of Microsoft Updates for this product which included Service Pack (SP) 2.
1) Performed a "repair" of Outlook 2010, via the Control Panel > Programs and Features.
2) Rebooted.
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Cannot Connect to Port 26 - Cannot Send/Receive Mail

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The server “mail.mydomainnamel.com” cannot be contacted on the default ports.
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I installed the heirloom-mailx package so cronie can send messages but I cannot send a test message to myself.
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/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
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http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … y-for-cron
Edit: Tried https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dma/ - works:
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