Gmail not sending messages in Mac Mail

I have recently switched to Gmail from Hotmail. I have linked my Mac Mail to my new account and I'm able to receive messages fine. However, when I try to send a message, it just sits in the Outbox. I also get the spinning wheel next to the Sent folder. Please help!

Hello tahm77,
Thanks for the follow up. If your issue persists after looking over the article above, you can contact Apple Support or take your device to the nearest Apple Retail Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider for additional assistance.
If you plan to visit an Apple Retail Store, you can make a reservation at the Genius Bar.
- Matt M.

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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.

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Well, since your iPhone receives perfectly, use it as the model to set up your iPad and MacBook Air.
On your iPhone, check Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > (your Yahoo account). Check the Incoming Mail Server settings, particularly the host name and server port (if you have that, it may be under "Advanced").
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I deleted the account and set it up again, but still can't get the mail out. Same messages
If I go on to iCloud, mail send is working fine.
Can anyone see anything wrong or suggest what to do?
I've deleted the user name below for the screenshot.
Thanks in anticipation.

TryinMyBestest wrote:
My Mac Mail send stopped working during a large number of mail sends yesterday.Could that be an issue? If so, what to do?
Message further reads - The sender address [email protected] was rejected by the server smtp.mail.me.com.
I deleted the account and set it up again, but still can't get the mail out. Same messages
If I go on to iCloud, mail send is working fine.
Can anyone see anything wrong or suggest what to do?
I've deleted the user name below for the screenshot.
Thanks in anticipation.
There is no user name entered in your SMTP (advanced) preferences.

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Hi blueandgoldforever83,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I would suggest using the Mail Connection Doctor in this case to see if you can isolate where the issue is. Please follow the steps in the following article to isolate and resolve this issue.
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
I hope this helps,
-Joe

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I am now using explorer.
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Hi Gorgiana,
Can you tell me which email you are trying to use? What is the name of it or the website you go to when you send email?
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I haven't changed anything on my G4, haven't upgraded anything, and the problem started about the time .Mac reported some customers were unable to use Mail for a couple of days in October.
I see nobody answered your post. Did you ever get your mail to work? I have repaired permissions, but I don't think it has anything to do with that.
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When I send an email on the Hotmail website, it does not register in my Mac Mail sent box.
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You have to send it from the Mail program on the Mac not the website. When you send it from the website it is in the sent folder on the website.
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mail with multiple gmail accounts sending messages from wrong email, other than the one i select:
i'm using mail on osx 10.7 with multiple gmail accounts. when i create an email, i check to be sure i'm sending/replying from the correct account. after i send it, somehow it actually sends it from a different account, other than the one i've selected "from." this is evidenced by the reply email i receive. how can i fix this?
in preferences, i have "send new messages from : account of selected mailbox"

From the Mail menu bar, select
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The Mail preference dialog opens. Select the Composing tab from the row of icons at the top. From the menu labeled
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choose
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Note that this setting may have no effect if you start a new message while a VIP or smart mailbox is selected in the mailbox list. Those are saved searches, not actual mailboxes.
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My iphone will not send messages in mail. It will receive messages. Is this a problem with my carrier or is it something in settings. I have reset my password and this does not help I don't know who to call about the problem.

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Thanks for your answer. Apprciate it very much. Just prior to receiving your email, I got back online. However, as I had tried what you suggested (and a lot more as I am 'reasonably' competent), and had been so doing since yesterday afternoon, I do believe that what you suggested was correct - that it was my third rate ISP that was at fault.
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Outlook for Mac has no option to import from Apple's Mail application. The best suggestion I can offer is that you use an IMAP account to transfer your messages.
Get a free Gmail IMAP account from Google and connect to the account in Mail. Drag your messages into the account to copy them to the server.
Connect to the same account in Outlook and copy your messages from the server to folders under On My Computer.
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One tool that I am familiar with is Apple Mail Export
Or you can find more on
google or
yahoo for more results
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              <input type="text" name="LastName" id="LastName" value="<?php print "$lastName"; ?>">
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          <tr>
            <td> </td>
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              <span id="sprytextfield3">
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tonyb1117 wrote:
It works! Thank you very much for pointing that out "bregent" and "osgood_". I have one more small problem though, when signing out my contact form the phone number field does not accept any phone number?
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<span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Please enter your phone number.</span></span></td>
Any solutions?
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Have you looked in that direction.
I presume what youre saying is when you hit send you get a red message saying phone number is not valid or something along those lines?

"Could Not Send Message Using The Server...:

I never have any trouble sending from Apple Mail, except now I am trying to do a mass-mailing for our business. Is there a limit on how many people you can BCC?
For the 1st message I put 200 people in the BCC field, and the message sends fine. Then I setup the another message with the next 200 people, and the send fails. Get a notice that Apple "Could Not Send Message Using The Server SMTPOUT.secureserver.net". And gives me the option of selecting other servers, neither of which work either.
I am curious, are there limits on how many people you can copy on one message?

Most, if not all ISPs and email account providers have similar limits per the following for personal/non-business email accounts as part of an overall effort to eliminate or reduce bulk spam emanating from the ISP's or email account provider's domain.
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The number of recipients that can be sent to each day (400 recipients)
The number of recipients a message can be addressed to at one time (100 recipients)
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