Mac Mail setup instructions incorrect

The instructions for setting up a BT mail account in Mac Mail are wrong. It says that the account should be a POP account and that the check box to set up automatically should be unchecked. Well, there is no checkbox (on my Mac, anyway) and the account gets set up automatically as an IMAP account with totally different settings to those shown in the setup guide. Never-the-less, it all works perfectly so there is no problem. I just thought you all should know.

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All of a sudden the Mac Mail does not connect to my ATT/Yahoo mail .
I have contacted ATT and Yahoo and reset email passwords. Still connot connect to Mac mail.
Any setup information or trouble finding tips would be appreciated.

Donald J. Weis wrote:
I solved lthe problem by creating another email account that mimicked the problem one and it connected to the server. I then deleted the other account.
That's good, I'm glad you resolved it

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I'm setting up a Mail account on my new Mac Mini (Lion). I've set up everything like the Mail account on my original Mac, but I've got 3 problems:
1- The Incoming Mail Server setup box refuses to save the password I type in, even though I hit Save after I type it in.
2- I've set up the signatire correctly, but I doesn't show up on new emails. The "chose signalture" option on the signature setup pane is always greyed out.
3- When I retreive emails from the server on my iPhone, and then on my Mac the email stays on my iPhone.

It's probably best to ask your Exchange support administrator for the correct EWS settings for your scenario.
Here are some guides for rackspace hosted email, but they might give you some hints:
http://www.rackspace.com/apps/support/portal/3957
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/manually-configure-mac-mail-for-email-hosted-on-exchange-2007
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Mac Mail setup pop, imap....etc Server Settings

Is there a list or spreadsheet showing all the mail service providers server settings?? I can setup .Mac, AOL. but in the case of Yahoo,, Earthlink, Gmail, Verizon etc. I can never get them to work. I've been through the setup assistant and doesn't help. I really dig the Mail app. but I have other email accounts that I'd like to bring em' to Mail app.
I work in legit theater and we're 95% mac and less then half use the mail app. for this problem.
I can never find server settings on their sites. If there was a list somewhere it would be helpful. Its easy enough to setup mail manually.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Andrew

For Gmail, you first need to enable POP access on the Gmail server.
For Earthlink, follow these instructions.
The server settings are usually on the ISP's site, if you search their support for "POP", "SERVER", "EMAIL" etc, you should be able to find it. There are a lot of servers, especially with the major ISPs that may run a different server for every geographic region they serve.- As an example, those Earthlink instructions are dependent on your email address.
If you still have trouble finding the server settings for a particular ISP, give them a call or send someone at their support an email.

When I hit reply on the .Mac Mail site, an incorrect address is generatedW

When I'm using the mail program on the Internet .mac site, and hit reply to respond to a letter I received, inevitably the automatic address generated by the program won't function. The reply button puts the person's name and then e-mail address in brackets on the address line. When I hit the command to send, I receive a message that the address is not a valid e-mail address. Then I have to go back and erase the name and remove the brackets-then I am able to send the e-mail. Is everyone having this problem with mail on the .Mac site? I mean I am not typing in the e-mail address incorrectly. The program generates the return e-mail address when I hit reply and it is always incorrect because it puts the person's name as part of the e-mail. Am I doing something wrong?
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Jim Lindsey

Hi,
This happens to me when the person's name you are
replying to contains a comma and webmail tries to
send it to two people.
eg if a mail comes from SURNAME, FORENAME
<[email protected]> then I will get an
error as the program thinks that SURNAME is an
invalid address
but I get an error message every time. It brings up the person's name followed by the email address in brackets. Then when I try to send, I get the message that this is not a valid address. Is this happening with everyone on .Mac site? Surely not or they would fix it.

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Mac Mail deleting emails too soon

Hi everyone,
I have Mac Mail setup to delete all emails after one month, this includes the Sent, Junk, and Trash. However Mail is only keeping one week's worth. I use iCloud as my sole email account. This issue has been occuring for a few months now.
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Chris

In iPad, open settings, Mail settings, select the account in question, click on the advanced tab. Set the to delete message like you want. I think default is 7 days.
For iPhone, I can't tell you because I don't have one. Probably similar to iPad.

In Gmail I can setup other accounts to "send" email from- can I use these other addresses in Mac Mail

In Gmail if you click the 'cog' button under your username you can choose "Settings" from the drop down menu. From Settings you choose the accounts and import tab and can enter other email addresses. This is useful to me because I have an email address [email protected] and while foobar.com host a server, the is no actual mail server but it can forward emails to aliases on that domain to some other another email address setup by admin.
When I compose a message in Gmail in the browser I can choose [email protected] or [email protected] as my send address. I almost exclusively use my gmail account through Mac Mail on my MBP as an IMAP account.
My question is, can I set up Mac mail in some way to send an email from the gmail server but using the alastair@foobar alias(es) as the send address?

Hi...
Thanks for your repaly .
and i am not bale to post a question in developer forum i tried hard but i didnt get .Can you plz explain me how to post a question in developer forum this is very helpfull for me.Because i never did this thing.

Why is the "From:" field being changed in Mac Mail. I have multiple gmail accounts setup and it seems to change the "FROM" field even though I've selected which account to use to send the email.

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I've got multiple gmail accounts setup in Mac Mail.
Somtimes when I send or forward emails, it uses the wrong FROM field even though I'm declaring
specifically which account to use.
This becomes apparent when the person replies to my message and it goes to the wrong account

Check you accounts in Mail and make sure each account has the correct outgoing server address. Check the box to use only that server.
Second, go to the gmail website and in settings under the account tab, make sure you have the correct settings for replying to messages.

On Mavericks Mac mail tells me my password is incorrect.

My Mac is on Mavericks. I have 2 POP email accounts. These two accounts are setup identically on my Mac my iPad and iPhone. On iPhone and iPad they work fine. On my Mac both emails tell me my password is wrong - it is not - HELP please.

i also am unable to get mail from my iCloud account on my iPhone, iPad, Mac Mail.app, or even on the iCloud.com site (mail fails to load). No indication of anything wrong @ http://www.icloud.com/status

Mail setup and .mac authentication

Baffled… I have been trying to setup my Mail account. I have an active .Mac account which I can access via the internet, so I know it works. I am trying to use Mail as my automatic mail for sending Aperture photos and iWeb announcements.
In going through the setup procedures in Mail I enter all the required information and the application tries to authenticate my .Mac account… it spins and spins… then an error message is received indicating “failure to connect to .Mac”. I have verified my settings with a friend who uses the same ISP, Mail and .Mac and all our settings are the same.
Is this a keychain issue, do I need to reset permissions?
Why can I access my .Mac account through Safari yet the computer can’t do it automatically?
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So you get mail from your .Mac account not via IMAP,
but via POP3? Or what do you mean by "as for IMAP I
am not using that"?
And no, I did not talk about pinging the server
(which just sends ICMP echo requests), but about
trying to connect to the server using telnet. That's
a real big difference.
I only get mail via the web ~ Safari ~ Yahoo... .mac mail can be received and used onlt as a web application, Mial does not connect via .mac.
The problem is .Mac authentifcation when setting up a new Mail account, error message says can not verify/connect to .Mac server, yet I can access .Mac via the internet.
IMAP ~ in my system preferences for Accounts/Advanced I do not sync to any IMAP mailbox and the greyed out port is 143 nad SSL is not checked.
Terminal ~ yes it logged in, sorry if I used the wrong term "ping"... so yes it did connect.

Is there a best practice for multi location server setups including mac mail server?

Afternoon all,
Last year I setup a client with Snow Leopard Server including hosting his mail on the server with Mac Mail Server and calendaring. He now has plans to open other sites with the same setup, how can this be done using Mac Server? The implementation of a new server on the new site would be straight forward my concerns / question are:
1. How would the two servers communicate?
    a.)Do they need to communicate?
3. How will mail across the two sites work?
    a.) How will DNS work for email internally?
    b.) How will DNS work for emai externally?
4. How will calendaring work across the two sites?
Is Mac Server the best platform for moving ahead with this type of business need?
Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
Anthony

Camelot,
many thanks for the speedy reply. Your comments are very helpful thank you, if I may I will give you some for information and some other questions.
The offices will be from 5 miles to 25 miles apart, the new office and ones that follow will be considered as branches of the main office for example the company name is Sunflower and it serves area 1, then new will office will serve area 2 and so on. So in theory I could leave the main server domain and mail mx record as sunflower and then add further servers as 2.sunflower.com, 3.sunflower.com as domains and mx records? This would then provide unique mail records and users within the organisation such as [email protected] and [email protected], which doesnt look to good I would prefer all users to be name@sunflower how can this be acheived?
With regard to user activity in the whole users will be fixed but their will be floaters such as managers and the owners that may at times float from one office to the other and would beneift from logging into any machine and getting their profile.
I have thought about VPN's as I have acheieved this type of setup with Microsoft server products, I have found speed issues in some cases, how can this be acheived using OS X, are there any how to docs around? In the Microsoft setup I acheived this using netgear VPN Firewalls which ofcourse adds an overhead, can this be acheived using OS X propietary VPN software?
So ultimatley I would prefer to have the one domain without subs "sunflower.com" and users to be able to login to their profiles from either location. The main location now will remain as headoffice and the primary location and the new will be satelites.
I hope that covers all of your other question, again many thanks for your comments and time.
Kind Regards
Anthony

Can someone tell me why the Yahoo mail server (IMAP) keeps requesting my Yahoo email password and says it's incorrect? Yahoo is my Mac mail server. This has happened before, but this time I can't get it to 'Cancel'

Can someone tell me why the Yahoo mail server (IMAP) keeps requesting my Yahoo email password and says it's incorrect? Yahoo is my Mac mail server. This has happened before, but this time I can't get it to 'Cancel'.

You will have to contact Yahoo Support.

Yahoo and outlook mail setups on mac mail

how to setup yahoo and outlook mails on mac mail?

Yahoo is a mail system, Outlook is a mail client, so what email system are you using in Outlook?
To set up Yahoo go to Apple>System Preferences>Mail Contacts and Calendars> select Yahoo and follow the prompts ...
Answer the question regarding Outlook and I'll tell you how to do that as well.

Mac Mail displaying incorrect name to the "To" and "from" field of all of my Hotmail emails

When Hotmail is viewed via Mac Mail, the To: field displays the recipient’s name & Hotmail address. There is a serious problem with my incoming Hotmail … instead of displaying my name and Hotmail email address it displays my friend’s name (initials are RB) alongside my Hotmail email address ... for every Hotmail email that is sent to me no matter who emails me. My contact/address book entries for my name and my friend are correct in Mac Address Book and Hotmail Contacts. Very strange.
Mac Mail seems to be adding recipient name to the To: field of all of my Hotmail emails & putting in the wrong name next to my email address! I say this because the officialwww.hotmail.com site only displays a recipient email address in the To: field (no name appears). This error is only happening in Mac Mail with my Hotmail emails (not happening with my Gmail and Yahoo emails).
How/why is a wrong name/my friend's name displayed next to my email address in every Hotmail message I view in Mac Mail?
This error is only occurring in incoming Hotmail messages addressed to me. Emails that I send using my Hotmail show my name & email address correctly in the From field.
Thank you

Mail has Smart Addresses that will display the name and email address under Preferences > Viewing, but your issue sounds like a different issue.
Did you setup an outlook.com alias in Outlook.com when it made the transition? If not, add an alias and see if that helps. You can also test sending from the outlook.com alias to see if the results are as expected.
For example if your Hotmail email is [email protected] then setup an alias [email protected]
If that fails, test in a new User.
Create a new User in System Preferences.
Log into your new User.
You can skip the Apple ID setup unless you are testing iCloud.
Select Don't Sign in > Continue > Skip
Open Mail and enter your Hotmail account.
Does the problem go away?

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