IChat with .mac account and intermittent connection failure

Recently using my .mac login with iChat has been a little troublesome. Sometimes it connects, sometimes it doesn't.
This morning there's no connection. Seems to be dead.
An AIM account can log in, and my older (now unused) .mac login will also connect, but my current login simply cannot connect.
Is it possible that this is another issue at AOL where accounts were deleted or misplaced?
Anyone else having a similar issue?

I see a couple things going on...
A.) The accounts were definitely not deleted. I've been able to log in since posting this. But there IS something going in. Many people are posting new topics about the "timed out" error with .mac accounts right now. True, the specifics seems to shift from post to post, but everyone's set up is different (usually) and that stands to reason. However, the common thread in all the posts is the "timed out" error.
B.) iChat tried to log back in when waking from sleep. I time out because my wireless network hasn't connected yet. So the reconnection is slower than the attempt to log back in.
This produces the "timed out" error.
C.) The port suggestion seems to make a lot of sense. Indeed if everyone is using the same port (and aren't there millions of us?) then using a variety of ports, or rather, any other port should help provided the server is up and running, and our accounts are working (and we're connected to the inter-web and everything else.)
D.) There seems to be an issue with errors in iChat AV, or perhaps with Mac OS X 10.4.X or possibly only the macbook pro where once an error is returned "timed out" or "could not connect" for whatever reason a certain operation (unknown) or amount of time (unknown) must occur before connection can take place.
I'd love to see all these problems resolved.

Similar Messages

Problem with .mac account and mail 2.05 (os x 10.4.4)

hi!
i am not able to add a .mac account in mail 2.05. system is os x 10.4.4.
.mac settings in system preference work fine, on my cube with os 10.3.9 i can add the .mac account without problems.
in mail under 10.4.4 i can´t even select accounts besides IMAP, POP and EXCHANGE. if i delete mails plist and even the mail file and achieving a "virginal mail" i just can select these 3 accounts (POP,IMAP,EXCHANGE). strange because if i setup .mac settings in system preferences before setting up a POP mail account (i have 3 POP accounts besides .mac), the .mac account is automatically set up in mail. but even than i can´t set up manually (another) .mac account (can´t be selected in account pulldown menue) as well as soon as i delete it it can´t be resetup.
no way with new user, same procedure. i reinstalled mail from tiger-dvd as well as reinstalling 10.4.4 combo update and repair disc permissions. no way to get .mac to work the normal way.
has anyone any idea?
thanks so long,
peter

the empty folder ~/Library/Mail/ at root level seemed to be the problem of not being able to activating the .Mac account in mail. after copying this folder onto harddisk again (i have a new "20 iMac at work with 10.4.4) the problem was solved. no idea how to get this folder again besides installing a blank 10.4.x install onto external firewire hdd or having a second system...
thanks so long.
i guess i made a mistake when migrating my old mail prefs from 10.3.x to 10.4.x blank install when moving the folders to 10.4.x maybe i have first choosen the ~/Library/Mail/ folder at root level and when recognizing that mail is not working with new user, i´m sure i might have deleted the whole mail prefs and mail folder on root level and copied the whole stuff again into USER/Library/Mail/. Therefore the folder ~/Library/Mail/ at root level became empty. i purchased .Mac just a few days ago so i recognized this failure just now...

I can't log in iChat with .mac account

since i changed my .mac password, ichat (i used million times before) ask me for log in AOL and then don't accept my log.
i tried to use old password with the .mac ID and the new pass with the same ID but this does'nt work.
then i tried to cancel my isight account and redo with my actual .Mac id and pass.
but after the log in procedure, AOL block me again with a new login request.
Someone can help me?
iMac G5, Ibook G4, G5 dual 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.6) mac user since IICx

I fonud the answer in an other discussion: it was because of the password lenght: AOL accept only 16 character max password.
My pass was 20...

Mail issue with .Mac account and Gmail

Hi everyone,
On Friday my email account began to exhibit some weird behavior. Suddenly, out of nowhere and for both accounts (.mac and Gmail), my iPhone stopped getting new email messages from the servers; it said that there are no passwords stored on the server and I should go into Mail settings and put passwords in. This was never an issue before; I checked on things and both passwords are still present. I've done all of the resets and re-synced my iPhone to iTunes but nothing's changed. I can still send messages from both accounts. Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Julie
Message was edited by: jkozarsky

Christoph's instructions translated for the iPhone:
Go into the Settings app.
Select (tap) "Mail, Contacts, Calendars".
Select (tap) your Google account.
Select (tap) "Account".
Verify that the Name field is your full name, or change it to be your full name.
While there, you might make sure the Description field says something like "Google" or "my Gmail" so it's easy to spot.

IChat using AIM account suddenly won't work with MAC accounts

Hello,
Our company is all Mac and uses ichat on a daily basis for employees to communicate around the world. I have a user in Canada who is experiencing a perplexing problem.
Until recently, her iChat text ability worked just fine, whether it was to another user with an AIM or Mac ID. She is using an AIM ID. However, there are now 2 users that have Mac ID's that she is unable to receive or send text messages from. If they send her a message, it shows she has an incoming message but she cannot open it. Nor can she send them a message. She can however, video chat with them. I thought at first it had something to do with her having an AIM account and them having Mac accounts, but she is still able to send and receive messages from all other users with Mac accounts.
I have gone through all her settings that I can think of; nothing is blocked. I asked her if she noticed the problem after an update or something like that. She thinks she was prompted to do a software update shortly before the problem started, but she's not 100%. She's on a MacBook running Mac OS X 10.5.8 and iChat 4.0.2 (604).
Any insight into fixing this would be greatly appreciated!

Hi,
Check the two @Mac names are not set to use Encryption.
9:21 PM Wednesday; November 3, 2010
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

IChat 4. Using my .mac account and my AIM account simultaneously

Can I set up my .mac account and my AIM account with different Names and Pictures? At the moment, every time I change one the other one changes too!
Do I need to alter the Server Settings and Port for each account? If so, to what do I change them to?

Hi,
You can have both open and show Both Buddy list.
Same Picture though in All Buddy Lists
3:52 PM Sunday; November 11, 2007

Dont connect with mac AppStore and iTunes store, but Safari and other apps is working good. pleeeease help.(OS X 10.8.5)

Dont connect with mac AppStore and iTunes store, but Safari and other apps is working good. pleeeease help.(OS X 10.8.5)

Error message?

Can two peeps use iChat with different accounts on the same computer?

What do I do to REMOVE an old AIM account and replace it with a new account in IChat?
Can two peeps use iChat with different accounts in the same computer?
(Actually, two people share a laptop, but one of us cannot use her AIM account cuz mine is in iChat already... And, when traveling, I have the computer - and I would like to use iChat on the computer...)

In iChat 4 you can have more than one AIM Valid name logged in at once.
AIM valid = AIM, @mac.com or a MobileMe name.
What you are then stuck with is that iChat is linked to one Buddy Picture and The one Mac User Account's Address Book which may or may not have Full Names, emails details, or a Nickname in iChat 4 linked to the Screen Names.
Whilst it does let you both log in whilst using one Mac User Account there are drawbacks about who uses the keyboard and reading meesages from the other persons Buddies.
8:50 PM Sunday; November 30, 2008

SUGGESTION ON BEST External HD to work with Mac Air and Logic - for sample streaming.

SUGGESTION ON BEST External HD to work with Mac Air and Logic - for sample streaming.

huge storage, low cost, high quality, very small and portable.
BEST FOR THE COST, Toshiba "tiny giant" 15mm thick 2TB drive (have several of them, lots of storage in tiny package)    $100
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Connect-Portable-HDTC720XK3C1/dp/B00CGUMS48    /ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1390020791&sr=8-3&keywords=toshiba+2tb
best options for the price, and high quality HD:
Quality 1TB drives are $50 per TB on 3.5" or $65 per TB on 2.5"
Perfect 1TB for $68
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-Hard-Drive/dp/B005J7YA3W/ref=sr_1_ 1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379452568&sr=8-1&keywords=1tb+toshiba
Nice 500gig for $50. ultraslim perfect for use with a notebook
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B009F1CXI2/ref=s    r_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1377642728&sr=1-1&keywords=toshiba+slim+500gb
*This one is the BEST portable external HD available that money can buy:
HGST Touro Mobile 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive $88
http://www.amazon.com/HGST-Mobile-Portable-External-0S03559/dp/B009GE6JI8/ref=sr    _1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383238934&sr=8-1&keywords=HGST+Touro+Mobile+Pro+1TB+USB+3.0+7 2 00+RPM
Most storage experts agree on the Hitachi 2.5"
Hitachi is the winner in hard drive reliability survey:
Hitachi manufacturers the safest and most reliable hard drives, according to the Storelab study. Of the hundreds of Hitachi hard drives received, not a single one had failed due to manufacturing or design errors. Adding the highest average lifespans and the best relationship between failures and market share, Hitachi can be regarded as the winner.

Latency and Intermittent connection since 24th of July.

There is a large tree branch leaning on the cable wire in the back rinning from the main box to the pole. The wire looks intertwined in smaller branches and a larger branch leaning heavily on it making like a v effect. This would cause noise frequency and an intermmittent connection according to what I read online. Accordingly any weight on a cable wire would cause for an signal interference. The area was affected by several outages in the last 2 weeks, which appeared to be resolved, one which was a lightning strike on one of the Nodes. I believe there still be something wrong because others in the area are getting intermittency and weak signals at certain times and not others. Since I use the internet for work purposes I need the connection to provide over 100mbps of download at least 99 percent of the time. This is what I am paying for. I am getting 30 at times and 100 at others causing it to be difficult to do my job. I have had the service checked several times and they keep reporting yellow signal of high noise frequency comming to the co-axle from somewhere. There were not able to pin point it, but the large tree branch may be the issue. After speaking to several reps. over the last 2 weeks and reporting the need to free the drop wire from the tree branch at least a dozen times to reps in technical support, I found out yesterday that there is no NOTES taken anywhere on the account reporting a tree branch issue. This convinced me that comcast is falsifying/modifying the support call notes for some reason. In fact since the 29th of July when a technician took pictures of the issue and allegedly reported this to maintenance, NOTHING has been done about the tree branch or the latency and intermittent connection I still have. I also had a major CREEPY experience with the technician that came out here that day. I now have an appointment for Monday which was rescheduled again from Thursday without notice and I waited hour on Thursday for someone to show up, but no one did and they rescheduled it until Monday without an explanation. Supervisor said it might be because they needed a bigger team to come out on Monday. If this is not taken care of on Monday Corporate will be hearing more of me.

Dear Complaining,
I am so sorry for the delay! I have sent you a private message so that we can discuss your service concerns more freely.
At the top of each Forum page, you will see a small gray envelope icon. This icon will have a number next to it if you have any new messages waiting. To open a PM to read it, double click on the envelope. If you click on the white envelope a window will open with tabs for your Private Message Inbox, Sent Messages, Friends, Ignored Users, and Compose new Message. You can also access this area by clicking on the Username in a Thread or post. By default, Private Messages are enabled. You can disable this feature in My Settings>Preferences> Private Messenger.

I have 2 macbooks each with an account for me and one for my wife. I use one Macbook logged in with my account and my wife uses the other Macbook only loged in on her account. We both make regular time-machine back-ups each on a separate external disk

I have 2 Macbooks each with an account for me and one for my wife. I use one Macbook logged in with my account and my wife uses the other Macbook only logged in on her account. We both make regular time-machine back-ups each on a separate external disk. Is it possible to update her account on my macbook using her external disk without overwriting my stuff on the same Macbook and vice versa?

Time Machine does not do individual accounts. It records the complete drive. So if you were to use her TM backup on your Mac it would make your Mac just like hers. Both yours and her account on your MAC.
Just copy the missing files over from her Mac to yours. If there are differennt programs on each then they would need to be installed on both.

I have a .mac family account, a personal .mac account and separate iTunes id I use for my work iPhone and the associated apps. How do I keep them separate in the iCloud change?

I have a .mac family account, a personal .mac account and separate iTunes id I use for my work iPhone and the associated apps. How do I keep them separate in the iCloud change?

Welcome to the Apple community.
Could you tell us a little more about what you want to do. Bear in mind that iTunes has nothing to do with your iCloud account.

Will ichat with mac os x 10.5.8. talk for free to window 7 skype

will ichat with mac os x 10.5.8. talk for free to windows 7 with skype and will it work?

No, it won't. Skype and iChat aren't interoperable.
(58608)

Ical not synching with .mac account

We have our set up in our preferences to sync ical with our .mac account, so we can access it away from home. Everytime we log on to our account, it still show it hasn't ben synched, although when I go in the preferences, it shows the box checked so it should sync. Any suggestions? This is frustrating, because it is showing not synched in .mac account and synched on my computer....

iCal does get synced with the .Mac servers, but there is no webinterface available for calendars. However, you can sync your iCal between multiple Macs using that feature.
The only way to access your calender using any machine and the web is to publish your calender. See here for more details:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Dotmac/Other/en/cal4.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61809

I'm trying to set up Continuity with mac mini and iPhone 5s and not working

I'm trying to set up Continuity with mac mini and iPhone 5s and not working, bluetooth not pairing

Your Mini is not supported.
Connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac using Continuity

IChat with .mac account and intermittent connection failure

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for