Mail and smtp servers

Am I very happy to see a, for me, major update of the Mail application.
In the Preferences, Accounts, Information about this account, it was (and is still) possible to specify the smtp server to use.
What is new is the possibility to check or uncheck the "use only this smtp server" (I translate freely from my French system).
Doing a simple upgrade of Tiger to Leopard, these options where checked in my case.
As soon as I unchecked this option, each new message or reply got a new pulldown menu of all smtp server names making it specially easy when using my MacBook Pro on the go.
This is a feature I was waiting for since the birth of Mail.

Sorry! This should be in the Leopard forum...

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Apple Mail and SMTP servers

I have several identities set up in one Gmail account that I would like to use with Yosemite Mail. I also have two SMTP servers set up for outgoing mail -- one for Gmail, one for work. Is there any way that I can change the settings so that Yosemite Mail automatically chooses the right SMTP server depending on whether I am using my work identity or my Gmail identity? Thanks!

Hey Dan,
You can edit and change the outgoing SMTP servers in mail. To do that take a look at the article below to walk you through changing it as well as making it to where you choose what outgoing server that you want to use when sending mail.
Mail (Yosemite): Verify an account’s outgoing mail server
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH19182
Take care,
-Norm G.

How to make email client account setup automatically select inbound mail and smtp server.

I have the mail service successfully running on OS X Server 10.8.2. I am able to send and receive email as well as setup email accounts on various email clients (iphone, ipad, mac, etc). I notice that when I set up a new account that I have to specify both the inbound and smtp mail servers as well as specifying the user id for each. I am using an SSL certificate that appears to be working. The ports are selected (993/995 and 587) automatically and the default is to use SSL.
However, when I set up a Comcast account - (configured as "other") - I only have to enter Full name, email address and password - and from this it is able to determine that the incoming mail server is "mail.comcast.net" and outgoing smtp server is "smtp.comcast.net". It also fills in the userid and password for both inbound and smtp servers - as well as the ports. I have been trying to get this to work automatically when setting up accounts for my mail server - but have not been able to figure out how to do this - or if it is possible.
In googling - I have found that I can set up several different SRV records such as (_submission._tcp, _imap._tcp, _imaps._tcp, _pop3._tcp, _pop3s._tcp) and these are supposed to provide this functionality to email clients that are able to use the SRV records. I have set these up externally at my registered domain provider - and I am able to query them via nslookup, dig and host.
Is Comcast using some other special method of providing the server names to the mail client setup - or am I doing something wrong - or is this a functionality that needs to be supported on the mail server side as well. I am relatively new to mail servers and trying to work my way through the learning process.

Understand the functionality you are wanting, basically one can use Outlook / Exchange mail server as an example. It just happens.
As I understand in the background the DNS _SRV records point to a machine which serves up an XML file and that is the information which tells the client how to configure itself.
I did some research before posting my first reply and found that, in the Apple client situation, even when someone setup the the SRV records + the XML it didn't work seamlessly.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12949449#12949449
Here's some other links that give some more background.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/macenterprise/qIKUMxMae8o/iLnIkMgeOX0J
http://www.virtuworks.com/how-to-setup-outlook-autodiscovery-for-your-domain/
If you were going to persue it you will need to find out the format for the autodiscovery XML file. Also the XML file will have to be hosted on your server, you couldn't likely put it on the public DNS server.

Mail and SMTP server settings of ASA Certificate Authority for cisco anyconnect VPN

Dear All,
i have the folloing case :
i am using ASA as Certificate authority for cisco anyconnect VPN users,the authentication happens based on the local database of the ASA,
i want to issue a new certificate every 72 hours for the users ,and i want to send the one time password via email to each user.
so what the setting of the mail and smtp server should be ,
was i understand i should put my smtp server ip address then i have to create the local users again under(Remte VPN VPN--Certificate management--Local certificate authority --Manage user Database) along with their email addresses to send the one time passsword to them via their emails.
i sent the email manually ,hwo can automate sending the OTP to our VPN users automatically vi their emails?
Best regards,

Thanks Jennifer.
I did manage to configure LDAP attribute map to the specific group policy.
Nevertheless, I was thinking whether I can have fixed IP address tied to individual user.
Using legacy Cisco VPN Client, I can do it using IPSEC(IKEv1) Connection profile, where I set Pre-Shared Key and Client Address Pools. Each Client Address Pools has only 1 fix IP address.
Example: let say my username is LLH.
Connection Profile for me is : LLH-Connection-Profile, my profile is protected by preshared key.
Client Address Pool for me is : LLH-pool, and the IP is 172.16.1.11
Only me know the preshared key and only me can login with my Connection Profile.
Using AnyConnect, I have problem. User can use any connection profile because I cannot set preshared key for AnyConnect. In that case, I cannot control who can use my Connection Profile and pretend to be me.
Example:
AnyConnect Connection Profile for me is : LLH-Connection-Profile, without any password
Client Address Pool for me is : LLH-pool, IP is 172.16.1.11
Any body can use LLH-Connection-Profile, login with another user name, let say user-abc which is a valid user in LDAP server. In that case, ASA assign 172.16.1.11 to user-abc and this user-abc can access server which only allow my IP to access.
I hope above description can paint the scenario clearer.
Thanks in advance for all the help and comment given.

How to set up two POP e-mail accounts using the same POP and SMTP servers

I have an e-mail address based on a domain I purchased which is based on my company name. Now retired, I have purchased a new domain with a simpler, personalised name. My original e-mail account uses the incoming (POP3) and outgoing (SMTP) mail servers operated by my ISP; mail.btinternet.com.
I have set up a new account on my PC in Microsoft Outlook, and have successfully sent and received emails using the new e-mail address taken from my new domain name.
I have now tried to mirror this on my iPhone, but every time I enter all the relevant data for the new e-mail address, user name, password, mail servers etc., and then press 'save', I get a pop-up which says: "xxxx" is Already Added This POP account has already been added to your iPhone. ("xxxx" is the name given to my original e-mail account). Nowhere have I input "xxxx" in the course of setting up the new account.
I need both accounts operational during an extended switch-over period as I alert everyone to the e-mail change over. Can anyone suggest a solution to this problem?

What targeting the Mail.app preference file, do the following:
Quit the Mail.app first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Move the com.apple.mail.plist file to the Desktop.
Note: Moving the com.apple.mail.plist file out of the Preferences folder will require re-entering all email account information when re-launching Mail.
The only exception to this is if you have a .Mac account which will be recreated automatically and/or if you created an email account as part of the computer setup assistant when first turning on the computer when new.
Launch Mail and decline any prompt to import mailboxes. After re-entering all email account information, the Mail.app should rediscover the existing account named folders and mailbox files at Home > Library > Mail.
After confirming all mailboxes were successfully rediscovered, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder and old com.apple.mail.plist file from the Desktop.
Test if this resolves the problem.

Ovi Mail IMAP and SMTP servers constantly down

I'm reading my ovi.com emails with a Lumia smartphone and with Outlook. I constantly fail to connect to the IMAP and SMTP server and thereby do not get or cannot send emails. Webmail works fine, but especially sending emails from Outlook or from Lumia is currently impossible. Mails just get stuck to the outbox folder and both Outlook and phone keep asking for the password, as if my password was wrong.
This has happened randomly after the Yahoo transfer, but now it is happening on daily basis. I haven't been able to send emails from my Lumia in a week. The settings both in Outlook and in Lumia are correct, have checked several times. Usually when I leave my phone alone for a night, in the morning it has synced the inbox, but not the Outbox.
Anyone have similar problems?

Ok.. if you guys have a final configuration please share...
I spent all morning and this after over 30min chat with nokia care support... final answer? they told me to contact Yahoo!
In the meantime, I also contacted nokia through tweeter and they were like: .. but nokiamail has been deactivated! I found it strange because my last income email on my cel was on Aug13... and I can still access nokiamail through webpage (www.nokiamail.com) so it´s not dead.
I´m using my name on the site as ******@ovi.com (cool, right?) but I want to have access to it on my ipad and another cel...thx for any help!
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Issues with Mail and SMTP and Gmail Accounts

So this isn't a question....more like a solution that I had to figure out.
We have multiple gmail accounts in our family and after upgrading to OSC Yosemite our gmail accounts wen't haywire. My wife was sending emails that eventually were sent from my gmail account (mass neighborhood emails at that.....and all replies came to me instead of her). I spent about 2 hours investigating and put together several different threads that finally fixed out problem. The root of the issue is that you can share the same Incoming Mail Server for all of your gmail accounts and your mail will go to the accounts that it is supposed to go to, but you have to have individual Outgoing Mail Servers for each of your accounts otherwise all outgoing mail will come from one account only. I don't know why this happened, it is a pain in the butt, but here's how I fixed it with 3 gmail accounts running through 1 mac.
1st - you need to remove all of your gmail accounts from mail via Internet Accounts in Settings. Just highlight the account and hit the minus sign at the bottom. You won't lose anything if you have your gmail settings set to default which backs everything up to Google's servers....it will all load back to you mac and it will all be available online at gmail.com
2nd - you need to add back all of your accounts one at a time (and follow all of the following steps for each account before adding another). Select the plus sign and choose Google (for gmail accounts only).
3rd - Give your gmail account a recognizable name in the "Name" field (if you have multiple Gmail accounts to add, you will want to distinguish between them).
4th - type in your username ([email protected]) and password. Make sure to add the suffix @gmail.com.
5th - Check the boxes that you want to add to your mac (mail, contacts, calendars, messages, notes).
6th - Click the "Details" button to ensure that you have an adequate description (see # 3 above) if you are going to have multiple gmail accounts to add.
7th - Open the Mail app.
8th - From Mail Preferences/Account Information Tab - make sure that you account is Enabled (check box next to "Enable Account", make sure that you have an adequate description name, email address is correct, Incoming mail server is imap.gmail.com, Username is your normal gmail login username (absent any suffix like .gmail.com), password is your gmail password.
9th - Then, from Preferences click on the Advanced tab and....Uncheck "Automatically detect and maintain account settings".
10th - Then, go back to Account Information Tab and.....from the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) dropdown box, select Edit SMTP List....
11th - You need to create an individual SMTP Server Account for each gmail account that you plan to add.
12th - To do this click the plus button. Server Name should always be smtp.gmail.com. Type in your own Description (I recommend naming it after the gmail account that you plan to attach it to).
13th - TLS Certificate should be "None"
14th - Click the Advanced Tab - From here, uncheck the box for "Automatically detect and maintain account settings". Then make sure Port is 587 (default is 25 for some ungodly reason). Check the box for "Use SSL".
15th - Set authentication to "Password". User name MUST contain a suffice (i.e [email protected]). Password is your normal gmail password.
16th - Click OK.
17th - Now your back at Preferences/Account Information - Link your account to the SMTP server that you just created by using the dropdown box next to Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP).
18th - Save all changes and close out of Mail App.
19th - Restart Mail and recheck steps 8-15....for some reason my passwords kept getting erased, but they eventually saved and took.
20th - Add another gmail account by following these steps and then recheck all along the way for passwords, suffixes, everything. You will want to make sure that your accounts are all properly linked to their respective Outgoing Mail Servers (hence the distinct naming descriptions).
21st - Once you have added multiple accounts send email between them to make sure that they are being sent from and received to the correct accounts.

Wow! Oh my goodness Patrick, thank you so much man. That's a ton of informatiion to take the time to write out step by step and share with strangers. I really, really am grateful to you. I've been dealing with this for a month, half the month I kept changing my passwords and kept assuming I was making some mistake. It used to work fine. About a week ago I started looking for a solution and couldn't find one that worked.
You have changed that sir! I'm good to go, stress level will lower when I am on my Mac, and I'm so glad to not have all these messages popping back up that I was done with!
Muchos Gracias Amigo! Owe you one...

Do Verizon's POP3 and SMTP servers support SSL?

The Mail account setup wizard on Mac OS X 10.6.2 successfully added my new verizon.net email account in a couple of easy steps. During the process, the wizard warned me that my password would be sent in the clear; I told it to continue.
After successfully sending and receiving test messages, I tried enabling SSL for the incoming and outgoing servers. At that point, both sending and receiving failed.
I read the minimalist Support description about email app setup -- no mention of ports or SSL.
Is SSL possible on Verizon's servers?
-- Ward
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Verizon's servers do not support SSL.
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Mac Mail and POP Servers

I recently switched from pc to mac. My old MS Outlook program deleted messages from my pop server when i checked for mail and downloaded them. Mac Mail does not appear to be doing this. Is there any way to set it up so that this happens automatically when i hit the 'get mail' button?

Hello Peter.
I think what Matt suggests only works for POP3 accounts
True and the same with a POP type account with any email client.
on my .mac account the only options seem to be whether to download
it to the computer.
A .Mac type account is really an IMAP type account and behaves in the same way. This is beneficial when accessing the account with an email client on a different computer being able to keep the account's Inbox mailbox and any other server stored mailboxes synchronized with the server with both email clients.
With the Mail.app, you can create a .Mac account as a .Mac type (by default) or as an IMAP or POP type account.
With other email clients you can create a .Mac account as an IMAP or POP type account.
If you want to change the account type from .Mac to POP with the Mail.app, you must delete and re-create the account choosing POP as the account type.
Doing so will delete all locally stored messages in the account's Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk mailboxes so before deleting and re-creating the account you must do the following.
Create/utilize "On My Mac" location mailboxes creating one for the account's Sent mailbox and another if you have any Drafts you want to save. No need to create additional mailboxes for messages located in the account's Trash or Junk mailbox unless you want to save these messages.
Transfer all messages from the account's Sent mailbox to the user created "On My Mac" location mailbox designated for the account's Sent messages.
Delete and re-create the account selecting POP as the account type. Any received messages that remain on the server when deleting the account will not be lost and will be downloaded by the Mail.app. Select the settings for removing messages from the server under the Advanced tab for the account preferences.

Mail & phantom SMTP servers (and dotmac/me)

Hi,
I've had this annoying problem for awhile and I don't understand it. Sometimes when I try and send a message with the Mail application it will fail. It fails because it tries to send it via a non-existent SMTP server account. That is, the account it tries to send on is one that I deleted years ago. (Related to an old edu email account). Sometimes the only option for sending a message are those old settings. (Which, of course, I can't connect to). I hope this makes sense.
Also, my present email account is dot mac/me if that has anything to do with it. Today, for example, I tried to forward a message via a dot mac/me alias account. Mail would not send it using the corresponding SMTP settings. It also would not let me use a gmail account setting either.
There's no mailbox left to delete or any account info I can find. Any idea why Mail keeps dredging up this (.edu) old account info? Or how to fix it?
Thanks for your help.
Jen

Hi Jen,
Mail>preferences>Accounts, click on the "Outgoing SMTP Mail Server" dropdown, choose Edit Server List, highlight the no longer used one, click the "Remove Server Button.

Can't send email on yahoo mail, keeps switching to windows mail and smtp errors ?

When browsing using Firefox if I try and send URL or email it automatically tries to send it on Windows Mail rather then the Yahoo mail I normally use, then windows mail can't send any email out saying smtp error. Can send yahoo mail fine ?

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Changing+the+e-mail+program+used+by+Firefox

Mail and SMTP

Does Mail handle what in a translation from Swedish would be "authentisised SMTP". This means that I will be able to receive and post mail via different broadbands, not only via my own company.

Hi
Yes. If I've understood you correctly? Secure POP, SMTP and are all supported. You can even use Kerberos. Provided the Mail Server is configured to accept such.
Tony

Mail and SMTP auth (RFC 1918 error) ?

I've an iMac and a Macbook (both with Mac OS X 10.5.3). Both connected to Internet using Airport via my WiFi router (with NAT activated on this router). This behavior is working fine since almost 2 years.
I was using (and I'm still using) Thunderbird (last version) to read and send my emails on the iMac, and Mac OS X Mail on the Macbook.
Everything was fine until yesterday. My provider has change is SMTP server so that authentification is now required when sending message.
So I've activated SMTP auth in Thunderbird and all is fine. And do the same under Mail (with password option). But it doesn't work with Mail, I've got a SMTP connexion error.
When I choose the diagnostic button, I find that SMTP connexion (EHLO) is fine, then saying my IP address (192.168.x.x) is private according to RFC 1918 and ending the connexion (QUIT).
I have the same error on my iMac, though it just work fine with Thunderbird.
So it seems to me Mail can't connect because of this behavior. But I don't understand why my IP address in Mail dialog with my provider SMTP server is not NATed by my router, like all other IP traffic.
And I don't know what to do to correct this problem.

Well, as SMTP authentification is only required to forward mail to another domain, I try to send an mail to my wife who is on the same domain as myself. It work fine with authentification disabled using Thunderbird but don't work with Mail.
As it use to work fine until I change the configuration, I try to delete my account informations and create a new one as it was 2 days ago (without SMTP auth) but it still doesn't work even if I've got no problem with Thunderbird.
Anyone as an idea about all this mess ? My only clue is the Mail connection diag which show connect, helo (with my private IP), server response 550 RFC 1918 and quit. Even if I found this behavior very strange, the result of the diag is the same with or without SMTP auth actived. So I suppose it was already the same before when it was working fine...

Mail and SMTP Not Working

Hi,
On my new Macbook Pro I can't get SMTP from my POP account. Incoming works fine. I tried ports 25, 0, 110, and 587. Why won't it work?

Hi! I assume that the problem is that you can't send mail? Have you checked with your isp to make sure your settings are correct? Tom

I can not get my .me email to work since the IOS6 upgrade. Does anyone have the send mail and smtp info. I thought I knew it but I thought wrong.

For some reason o can get my @me.com email to work. What are the send and receive strings?

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