Mail: occasional temporary refusal in authentication

I've got sites that occasionally temporarily refuse authentication. I haven't tracked down why... (telus.com, gmail.com...)
however, Mail asks me to re-enter my password every time.
This can get annoying if it happens every few seconds for upwards of 15 minutes... as has happened a few times - and is happening RIGHT NOW with telus.com. grrr
I would also love to know how to stop it from confirming my server signature on my (purely for personal use) mail domain... it hasn't been an issue with the other software I use with the same server (kmail, outlook)

How does it behave when you quit and restart Mail?
Do you see the same problem when you make a new User on your Mac and start Mail from that user? If this works well, your problem is localized to the original user and you can try to remove some files:
Open Preferences from within the Mail program and note the exact settings for your email accounts.
Quit Mail
Trash the following file:
your home directory / Library / Preferences / com.apple.mail.plist
and empty the Trash
Restart Mail
Re-install your mail settings
These actions will not interfere with your mailboxes, it will simply create a new plist preference file when you re-start Mail.
As an extra advice: back up your whole Library folder regularly, it contains all your emails.

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I've got an outgoing mail message that refuses to be sent but also refuses to be deleted. It's really frustrating! I've tried pressing return and then quickly delete- quitting mail- restarting the computer- but the message keeps popping up. HELP!

Quit Mail, Trash this file...
Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop for now...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

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I am using Tomcat5.0.28 for a javamail servlet program. I am giving the hostname as localhost. After entering the input details in my html file, i get the error- "javax.mail.MessagingException: Connection refused: connect; nested exception is: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect " .
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First, you're using a very old version of JavaMail. Please upgrade. Some of the properties you're setting aren't supported in that old version.
Second, you don't need the socket factory properties, get rid of them.
Finally, it looks like you're trying to connect on port 143 using SSL. Port 143 is the non-SSL port. That's probably not going to work. Still, it looks like something is refusing to let you connect at all. If you really can telnet from the same machine your program is running on to the same server machine on port 143, then you probably have some sort of firewall that's preventing your program from connecting. Please post the entire debug output if it still fails after correcting the problems above. (Move the setDebug call to before the getStore call.)

Mail service not requiring SMTP Authentication

hello everyone,
I have been trying to find an answer and could not. I want my mail server to require SMTP Authentication. I have "CRAM-MD5" and "Login" checked in Server Admin -> Computers & Services -> Mail -> Advanced -> Security. Still, I can set up a mail account with any name and domain and SMTP through my server. (It does require a password for POP, so at least no one can read others folks mail)
I have begun to notice that I get many returned mails that I never sent, from accounts that are not on my server. So, I am thinking that spammers are relaying or just using my server to spam. I would like that to stop.
I have changed the configurations with Server Admin, stopped service, started service, and even restarted the whole server. Still, mail will not require SMTP Authentication.
Can anyone help me do this with Terminal or manually?

thanks, for any help in advance.
command_directory = /usr/sbin
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mailbox_transport = cyrus
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mydomain = highlevelit.eu
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myhostname = mailx.highlevelit.eu
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
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readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
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Mail occasionally displays 0 messages. This happens intermittently and I'm not able to associate it with any particular behavior.
When this occurs mail will displays no messages in the message viewer window, for any mailbox, even though each mailbox has many messages, and it shows an explicit message in the header bar area that there are zero messages in particular mailboxes that are not empty. This can happen when there is new mail, mail indicates that there is new mail but it doesn't display messages in the pane.
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thanks,
J
J

Hi John, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I presume this is an IMAP account?
Anyway, try these..
Quit Mail.
In your Home folder. open Library folder, open Mail folder in that, look for the Envelope Index, and drag it to the Desktop.
Then in your Home folder. open Library folder, open Caches folder in that, look for the Mail, and drag it to the Desktop.Move Envelope Index to the Desktop in...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
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The thuderbird was working fine. All of sudden, when I click on Thunderbird it is showing the following message "could not connect to the server mail; the connection refused". I am attaching the connection setting in this mail. Please help me out.
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/problems-sending-and-receiving-messages

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To troubleshoot the issue of not being able to send email from Mail on your iMac, please follow the directions in the article below.
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Hi.
My requirement is to send email via PI to an extermal mail address. I am trying to use the following configuation for the same.
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HI Anuradha,
Check the below link for receiver mail configuration and follow the steps accordingly.
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Error in sending mail : SMTPSendFailedExcept Client was not authenticated

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I am new to the forum,
I have a small program to send mail to Microsoft exchange server.
Now the server is enabled with https option.
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