Mail not sending and loads of spam

Worked forever yesterday trying to set up new ibook (and old imac) to filter and redirect some of this volumes of junk mail I have been receiving. I tried to set up a "rule" which redirected mail in which the sender was not in my contact book to another outside (my personal junk) email account because I wanted to recheck this to make sure it was working right. It appeared to be great, but then I could no longer send "any" emails unless I sent them to my .mac from an outside email. I worked forever on this, and this am got up and changed machines. My new error message states that "can not use this server as it exceeded 400 receipients in one day". Apparently when I created the new rule it sent everything stored in my email accounts to this forwarding address, which exceeded the daily limit.
My question is this: do I now just wait for 24 hours to elapse and everything will be OK? When exactly does the time frame end.
Second question, what is the deal with this stupid spam that everyone seems to be getting now? I have used dot mac for over 4 years and now it seems someone using different dot mac accts have "tricked" the server by using unique names each time.
Seems to me the dot mac people need to concentrate on these spammers more than on lil personal email account me who was just trying to "fix" a problem that they are not fixing at the host site.
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.Mac has several safeguards in place to ensure that only .Mac members send messages with the Mac.com outgoing mail server. Among them are reasonable limitations on:
* The number of messages that can be sent each day (200 messages)
* 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)
* The size of outgoing messages
There is also a 10 MB maximum size for messages sent or received using the .Mac mail system.
Most ISPs and email account providers have identical or similar restrictions.
My question is this: do I now just wait for 24 hours to elapse
and everything will be OK? When exactly does the time frame end.
Yes and I believe the time frame is reset at midnight and is based on midnight to midnight each day.
Second question, what is the deal with this stupid spam that
everyone seems to be getting now?
Copied from How .Mac filters spam.
The .Mac mail servers filter spam, but some unwanted messages may still get through.
No single strategy is completely effective when it comes to managing Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE), also known as "spam". People who are intent on sending spam are ingenious at coming up with ways around any filtration schemes.
In addition, see Why was I "spammed" at my .Mac Mail address? which applies to any email account and How HTML Email Messages Relate to Unsolicited Commercial Email ("spam") which applies to any email client such as the Mail.app.
The next step is for implementing and enforcing laws against spammers with huge fines and 20 years hard labor for those convicted should help.

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Hello Everyone,
Sorry to bore you all with what is probably a very common issue. I have searched for this but I feel I am going to need personal help here.
My Dad has had his iMac for just over a year now and used Mac Mail to receive email from his two yahoo.co.uk email accounts. Never had a problem. He has a Powerbook G4 with the same two email accounts linked to Mac mail on that laptop too. No issues.
Last week he began to have trouble where by the outgoing mail would not send. It started on the iMac. The G4 was ok. By the following day the G4 was doing it too. It was, a few hundred miles away, happening to me also on my G4. I have a dot mac account and have done for years.
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Other than deleting the email account in Mails preferences, is there anything else that we should be doing to start a fresh? I really would appreciate some help here. This has completely stumped us!
May thanks,
Philip

Thanks Carolyn,
I will try the cheat sheet to see if it helps. I must say the whole issue is highly strange. It's an issue that is affecting my Dad's computer, but the problem also affected me in exactly the same way at the same time, hundreds of miles away, and with totally different ISP's and ESP's. He has two Yahoo accounts and I have a Mac account!
The problem has just gone away for me but it continues to plague my poor Dad. I have been with Mac since 2004 and although it has only happened a handful of times, it has happened before and I could never get to the bottom of it. And eventually it also just went away. But it's been a couple of weeks now for my Father.
It must be something to do with Mac Mail or the operating system. We'll try the cheat sheet, but I'm quite certain his details are all correct. I even deleted all of the accounts and server address's over the weekend and started a fresh. It was ok for a day or so but has now started again.
I rarely criticise Mac, and am not really doing so now, but I think this is an issue they have and need to solve.
Many thanks,
Philip
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Out going mail not sending in mavericks

I've had this problem since upgrading to mavericks, mail not sending and the sntp server showing off line.
I"VE FIXED IT!!!!
Guys hope this helps, the ports show default - 25, 465, 585 in edit smtp settings. Check the next box down - use this port and type in 25, I know its in the default list but its sent my mail when using the custom port.
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I cannot not send and receive e-mails

Translated with the help of Google Translate.
Mail: Version 7.3 (1878.6)
Two-step verification set
Since a number of weeks I cannot not send and receive e-mails.
And I cannot find an answer in the support community.
I suppose the cause can be found in the two-step verification or in the TLS certificate ... but in this I am a layman.
The connection wizard explanes:
iCloud IMAP Failed to log on this iCloud IMAP account. Make sure the username and password are correct
SMTP Failed to log on this SMTP account. Make sure the username and password are correct.
I'm 99.999% sure that the username and password are correct. Those missing 0.001% can be found in another problem somewhere else. Who advises me?
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iCloud IMAP
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username: [email address] @ me.com
password: my iCloud account {four digits, a hyphen, five Uppercase, 1 lowercase}
server name outgoing e-mail: smtp.mail.me.com
TLS certificate
[Outgoing mail server / Edit SMTP Server List / account information]
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TLS certificate
[Outgoing mail server / Edit SMTP Server List / advanced]
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username: [email address] @ me.com
password: that of my iCloud account
[Advanced]
IMAP path prefix: left blank
Port: 993
Use SSL: yes
Authentication: Password
Use IDLE command: checked.
I hope I get soon an answer.
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It sounds like you're not able to send email from your ISPs mail server on your iMac.
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