Mail Server Question

Hey everyone, I'm having trouble with my mail server. More specifically SMTP. When I checked the logs, this is the error I got for Postfix: fatal: bind: private/smtpd. Does anyone know what that means? What should I do to fix it? Thanks for your help!

Hello, Welcome to discussions.
You will need to contact your school's technical support department and obtain this information. Some schools do provide a local tech support page that shows you how to setup email in email based programs or cell phones. On this page it will also typically provide the incoming and outgoing server that is needed to gain access to your email.
But please check with your tech support team at school as certain restrictions may apply based on the rules they may have set in place.

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Migrating From Exchange To OSX Mail Server Question

I'm switching my small business to a Mac based office from Windows. I'm thinking about OSX Server (or Snow Leopard Server when it comes out). I'm comfortable with everything about it, but not being much of an IT person, I have a question about the Mail Server.
We have 7 employees. Each will have his own email account. We will also have one "group" email account that we will all need to access. On my current Exchange server, it's no problem. I haven't read anything about the Mac Servers that allows this from ALL the clients. Can this be done with the Mac servers and if so, where can I read about it?
I will also need to be able to manage the server remotely. I assume there's no problem with that, yes?
Sorry for what may seem to be naive questions, but this whole point is to be able to get rid of the PC crap and all the complications that come with it. Thank you in advance for your help.

You can set Access Control Lists on mailboxes allowing other users to have access to them. So, your Group email account would be an eighth user per se, and the other seven users would see this user's Inbox in their folder list.
Note that there is no GUI for doing this. You either need to use the command line tools to configure this or a third party GUI tool called SirAdmin.
Yes, OS X Server can be managed remotely, using a variety of tools ranging in complexity and power. It is UNIX after all

Hotmail incoming mail server question

What is the Hotmail incoming mail server? Thanks.

What do you mean you want to change that?
Does that not work in your Mail? The incoming server for your Hotmail account in the Mail.app is this: hotmail.com
It should work just fine when you type that in.

Outgoing mail server questions

I am using a pop 3 account for email. for some reason my mail is stuck in my outbox. What are the settings for the outgoing mail server?

That server option seems to be something that popped up with the 2.0 update. Perhaps this might be helpful? It's a link that walks you through e-mail set up.
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/mailhelper/

Mac OS X Mail Server Questions

Hi,
I'm going to buy a server soon to host a website and email, and until recently, I was set on a 2.8 GHz windows server for $579. But now I'm starting to lean towards a Mac Mini server, despite its higher cost and lower CPU speed. I have a few questions, though:
1. Is a 2.5 GHz Mini capable of running a mail and web server simultaneously without slow downs?
2. Is OS X Server's Squirrel-mail webmail comparable to Microsoft Exchange's Outlook Web Access? Does anyone have any screen shots?
Thanks.

1. Is a 2.5 GHz Mini capable of running a mail and web server simultaneously without slow downs?
That depends on the load. Once you exceed about 10,000 active users/mailboxes and about one million page views per day you'll probably start to notice. Seriously.
2. Is OS X Server's Squirrel-mail webmail comparable to Microsoft Exchange's Outlook Web Access? Does anyone have any screen shots?
I've never used OWA so I have no basis for comparison, sorry. Personally, I tend to think the webmail interface is a little crude, but it does the job. No web interface, though, is a substitute for a real mail client IMHO.

Dictamus smtp mail server question - help!

I'm just wondering if anyone else is having trouble using Dictamus on their iphone for sending dictations via email.
I recently put OS 5 on my iphone and I have upgraded to Lion on my imac. I recorded a dictation the other day on my phone and I tell it to send and it looks like it does but no one is getting my dictations in their email. I have tried troubleshooting and checked my SMTP settings and they seem to be correct.
I used to be able to send dictations no problem before I uprgraded - is anyone else having this problem of their emails not being sent?
I use a me.com account and would like to use that to send the emails. I have the smtp sever set to smtp.me.com and I have also tried smtp.mail.me.com and still my emails will not go thru.
Any suggestions or help is much appreciated.

We have been getting reports from quite a few MobileMe customers who cannot send mails from Dictamus. According to our investigations, Dictamus does send those mails correctly, and the me.com SMTP server acknowledges having accepted them for delivery. This is as far as anyone can track outgoing e-mail over SMTP, so Dictamus flags the respective dictation as "shared successfully". The problem is that after that initial acknowledgement, MobileMe silently discards some Dictamus mails (not all) without notification to either sender or recipient. This can happen if either recipient or sender are on MobileMe, so sending from a MobileMe address to another mail provider is subject to this issue as well as sending from another provider to MobileMe. Therefore, we currently recommend against using MobileMe accounts for sending mails from Dictamus. We are unaware of similar problems with any of the other large e-mail providers.
Michael Nagel
JOTOMI

A very simple question: how to obtain the mail server name?

In our JSP application, at one point an email will be sent to notify one event. Currently, that is done by using the html tag: mailto. To have more control on the email in tems of context format (a bad layout right now) and others. I would like to have it processed at servlet by using the JavaMail API, so that it have a nice format and have the sender's email address right in case email client is not installed in the machine where the browser in. The JavaMail API is straight forward. The question is how to obtain the mail server name, and the sender's email address if there is one?
Thanks.
v.

How to obtain the mail server's name? It's your server, you should know its name. Or if it isn't your server, you should ask the administrator for its name. Point is, you need to decide in advance what server you are going to use and hard-code its name into the program or into a properties file.
And how to obtain the client's e-mail address? You have to ask the client, probably by putting a box in the HTML and asking them to type it.

Question regarding SMTP on my own mail server

This might be a dumb question. I understand if I want to use os x server to run my mail server, I need to update the MX records for my domain so that all email sent to my companies domain goes to the static IP of my server. Where I'm confused is with smtp, how does that work? If I create a new message and send it to someone on the internet, how does my leopard server know how to deliver it? I haven't changed any MX settings yet, just confused how SMTP works?

Thanks for your help, still having issues. My MX records for invution.com are not set up yet as I'm waiting for my static IP to be installed. I can send mail of course to local users, but I'm just testing sending externally. Does my MX records need to be set up for that? If so then this question is answered.
I'm trying to email myself at gmail.com but it never sends. Here's SMTP log:
Feb 7 08:23:29 darwin postfix/postfix-script[59769]: refreshing the Postfix mail system
Feb 7 08:23:29 darwin postfix/master[59668]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
Feb 7 08:23:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59774]: 002D187E09: from=<[email protected]>, size=966, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 7 08:23:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59774]: 2A5EC87F6B: from=<[email protected]>, size=925, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 7 08:23:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59774]: 3D57287E5E: from=<[email protected]>, size=966, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 7 08:23:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59774]: 62E7F8686B: from=<[email protected]>, size=970, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 7 08:23:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59774]: 7172587EAF: from=<[email protected]>, size=927, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 7 08:23:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59774]: D11CB87FAA: skipped, still being delivered
Feb 7 08:23:29 darwin postfix/smtp[59724]: connect to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.79.27]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:23:59 darwin postfix/smtp[59724]: connect to alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.129.27]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:23:59 darwin postfix/smtp[59724]: D11CB87FAA: to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=150, delays=0.06/0.04/150/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.129.27]: Operation timed out)
Feb 7 08:23:59 darwin postfix/smtp[59776]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[72.14.205.27]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:23:59 darwin postfix/smtp[59778]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[72.14.205.27]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:23:59 darwin postfix/smtp[59777]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.133.114]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:23:59 darwin postfix/smtp[59779]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.133.114]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:23:59 darwin postfix/smtp[59780]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.133.114]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/postfix-script[59788]: refreshing the Postfix mail system
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/master[59668]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59793]: 002D187E09: skipped, still being delivered
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59793]: 2A5EC87F6B: skipped, still being delivered
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59793]: 3D57287E5E: skipped, still being delivered
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59793]: 62E7F8686B: skipped, still being delivered
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59793]: 7172587EAF: skipped, still being delivered
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/qmgr[59793]: D11CB87FAA: from=<[email protected]>, size=925, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/smtp[59776]: connect to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.79.27]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/smtp[59778]: connect to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.79.27]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/smtp[59777]: connect to alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.129.27]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/smtp[59779]: connect to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.79.27]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Feb 7 08:24:29 darwin postfix/smtp[59780]: connect to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[66.249.93.27]: Operation timed out (port 25)
And then postconf -n shows:
darwin:~ admin$ postconf -n
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debugpeerlevel = 2
enableserveroptions = yes
html_directory = no
inet_interfaces = all
localrecipientmaps =
luser_relay = admin
mail_owner = _postfix
mailboxsizelimit = 0
mailbox_transport = cyrus
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
messagesizelimit = 0
mydestination = $myhostname,localhost.$mydomain,localhost,invution.com
mydomain = invution.com
mydomain_fallback = localhost
myhostname = invution.com
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
relayhost =
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
setgid_group = _postdrop
smtpsasl_passwordmaps =
smtpdenforcetls = no
smtpdpw_server_securityoptions = gssapi,cram-md5,login,plain
smtpdrecipientrestrictions = permitsasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauthdestination,permit
smtpdsasl_authenable = yes
smtpdtls_certfile = /etc/certificates/Default.crt
smtpdtls_keyfile = /etc/certificates/Default.key
smtpdtlsloglevel = 0
smtpduse_pwserver = yes
smtpdusetls = no
unknownlocal_recipient_rejectcode = 550
Is something set up wrong or do I need MX working first? Thanks!

Mail server - smtp configuration questions

i'm having a bit of trouble getting clear on how mail configuration works, in particular the settings relating to smtp.
here are some questions i hope someone help with:
1. am i correct that settings made on the the settings>relay tab apply only to when my server is used as a relay - and therefore would not apply to general incoming smtp connections when another server connects to mine for delivery to locally-hosted domains?
2. there are three settings on the settings>relay tab. basically they are: "accept relays only from the specified addresses", "refuse all messsages from the specified addressses", and "use these rbl servers". the first two can seemingly each be separately enabled/disabled in addition to being configured with one or more addresses. my question is what happens if neither of the first two is checked (enabled)? does my server accept relay connections from anywhere? or does it accept no connections at all?
3 on the settings>general tab, there is a checkbox to enable smtp... one would assume that if this is unchecked, that this would disable all incoming mail AND smtp relay, yet it seems i can have this unchecked and i can still configure smtp relay on the settings>relay tab, so that seems odd - am i missing something?
4) on the same tab, it asks for a domain name and a host name. how are these used? what is the difference between the two? does it matter if my host accepts mail for multiple hosts (via host aliases - configured via settings>advanced>hosting>local host aliases)?
5) i want my server to accept mail to anywhere from authenticated users (i.e. users on my network who are sending mail to random other places). i want my server to accept inbound mail (to users on my locally-hosted domains) from any server without requiring authentication. my guess is that this is a pretty common or standard config. i am confused by the settings>advanced>security tab, where i can seemingly allow certain types of authentication.
5a) what are the semantics of the multiple check boxes for the different types of auth? if i select only one, does it mean that my server will require that specific type of auth? if i select more than one, does it mean that my server will select any of the specified types? what if nothing is checked - is that how you tell it to allow unauthenticated users to connect?
5b) do the above auth settings apply both types of incoming smtp connections i described above? how can i configure it so as require smtp authentication from clients but not from servers connecting from other networks to deliver mail to my domain?
thanks in advance.

I went to http://www.google.com and did a search for "smtp server" and the second entry it returned was this:
"PostCast Server - free outgoing SMTP e-mail server
... notifications to your customers, as well as for sending individual messages. You
can use it instead of the SMTP server of your Internet Service Provider. ...
Description: Enables you to send e-mail directly from your computer, without your Internet Service Provider's server.
Category: Computers > Software > Internet > Servers > Mail
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The Internet is a great resource, isn't it?

Outgoing mail server and WiFi Questions

DeepPurple23, thank you -- you solved my problem as well!
Can either of you tell me what's involved in choosing a Wi-Fi network? I'm trying to choose one, but don't know whether I'm DHCP, BootP or Static. DHCP is preselected, but then the only lines that allow me to fill in anything are DNS, Search Domains and Client ID. What should I put there? My IPS is earthlink, and I created a client id, but I'm not getting anywhere. Thanks for any help you can give.
Message was edited by: Host - branched to new thread for new issue

nakoma,
EarthLink should allow you to user their outgoing mail server smtpauth.earthlink.net on port 587 on WiFi or EDGE. Cwmx.com is a work around that only works on EDGE.
As for choosing a WiFi network. Do you have a wireless router such as an Airport Base Station?
If so, you would connect to it, and it connects to your internet connection. Many places offer free WiFi or WiFi that they charge for. This can include restaurants, coffee shops, libraries, and even some cities are experimenting with it. To join one of those networks go to Settings -> WiFi, turn WiFi on, and it will search for WiFi networks that are within range.
Click on the wireless network you want to join. If there is a "lock" next to it that indicates whoever setup that wireless router or base station, and is likely paying for it to connect to the internet set it up to use encryption and a password. You would have to ask them for permission to use their network and the password to use.
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

Question on LDAP- Mail Server Integration

I am looking for real-world scenarios and best practices for implementing LDAP along with mail server for email forwarding, recipient validation, masquareding, aliasing, and host routes.
Any information on how you have implemented and feedback would be useful too..
Thanks

I am looking for real-world scenarios and best practices for implementing LDAP along with mail server for email forwarding, recipient validation, masquareding, aliasing, and host routes.
Any information on how you have implemented and feedback would be useful too..
Thanks

Newie Mail server and running other services

We have a small office network of 6 macs that connect to a Panther server, this server provides DNS and file sharing and thats about it a Filemaker Sever and Retrospect Server. I doesn't suffer from heavy use
I have been using a a separate mac to run Quickmail server 1 (os9) and I need to upgrade it as some of the mail protocols are out of date.
We have a static IP address assigned to our mail gateway by our service provider.
My question or advice
Should I just start using OS X server to run mail services
or
Upgrade Quickmail and continue running it separately on a new mac mini (or similar)
My concerns are at the moment any problem with email locally can be solved pretty much without effecting the other server or the network.
Thanks

The basic setup is prety simple...
Replace following with your own equivalents...
Domain name: woopee.com (the domain name after the "@" in your emails)
Host name: mail.woopee.com (the hostname your MX record points to. Does not need to match server hostname. This will be the hostname mail server uses when communicating with other servers)
Local Host Aliases: woopee.com (a list of the domains you want to accept mail for. Probably just same as Domain name?)
Local network: 192.168.10.0/24 (LAN IP range for local users. Used to bypass authentication when they send mail out)
Server Admin-> Mail-> General...
Tick:Enable POP
Tick:Enable IMAP
Tick:Enable SMTP, Allow incoming mail, Enter Domain name & Host name (from above).
Mail-> Relay
Tick: Accept SMTP relays... Enter localhost IP: 127.0.0.1/32 and Local network (from above).
Tick: Use these junk mail rejection servers. Add: zen.spamhaus.org
Mail->Filters
Tick: scan for junk mail. Minimum score: 5 (can be reduced later)
Junk mail should be: Delivered (will just tag and forward to recipient)
Tick: Attach subject tag: * Junkmail *
Tick: Scan email for viruses
Infected messages should be: Deleted
Tick: update junk mail & virus database: 1 time per day
Mail->Advanced->Security
SMTP: none (this prevents smtp authentication from anyone outside your Local network)
IMAP: Tick: Clear, Plain, Cram-md5 (or leave all unticked if only using pop accounts)
POP: Tick: APOP
Mail->Advanced->Hosting
Local Host Aliases: Add: localhost & woopee.com (separate entries, see Local host aliases, above)
That's it (I think ...although I cannot guarantee I have not missed something). There will be no problem setting this up and seeing it going whilst still using the existing mail server. Set up client accounts to send and receive from new server and you can send mail around internally to test. Last thing would be to change your firewall port-forwarding for SMTP from existing server to new one.
Watch the mail.log in Console for any errors & do plenty tests.
Ensure users have mail enabled in Workgroup Manager.
There are plenty mods available beyond this. Have a good read through the mail services manual (I know its a bit confusing at times) and you should see where the above settings fit in.
Lots of stuff on the forum here which you can search for. Spam filtering in particular can be made far more effective but requires editing of the underlying unix configuration files - again, plenty of previous discussions about that on forum. Meantime, the zen.spamhaus.org RBL will filter out a great many spammers.
-david

TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS RE: iCLOUD MAIL SERVER DROPOUT

Here's what I learned throughout this and I will post a discussion in a separate thread for the rest of the folk out there.
MYTHS AND FACTS RE: iCLOUD MAIL SERVER DROPOUT- WHAT I'VE LEARNED
Hopefully this troubleshooting helps everyone that has had or having issues, for now and for the future...
Firstly, the Apple system status is a bit of a myth. Because it is a global community of people using iCloud, it does not always update in real time. The Apple techs check this when there is issues, as do the public, so odds are unless every single person is having issues around the globe, then it won't reflect an issue. http://www.apple.com/au/support/systemstatus/
Apple technicians work in territories. For example, I live in Australia so I had to deal with a tech supervisor who looks after Australasia and who is based in Singapore. They don't get a notification if a group of people in Canada are having problems, even if they are identical to mine, unless as above, the whole world is having issues.
CHECK THESE FORUMS as a first step measure to work out if the problem seems to be just you and your account, or a wider community. Particularly before you make any major change to your email accounts, passwords, computers or phones.
If you get an issue in the next week or so (and keep in mind for the future) Error Message: "MY NAME" returned the error "[AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed." Your username/password or security settings may be incorrect. Would you like to try re-entering your password?" and this happens multiple times when you know the password is correct, then odds are that the server is down and you are best to wait it out. Try checking your mail via iCloud to test. If you can send it through there, odds are that the glitch has nothing to do with your password or issues with your account and rather than make changes, try and wait it out.
If all of your folders in your email disappear, if they are IMAP folders, then log into iCloud mail in your web browser to check that they are still there. It just means that your mail client (Mac Mail, Outlook for Mac etc) can't access the IMAP folders via the server. Don't panic until they are gone from every device you use your email on.
Be wary of deleting ANYTHING from your computer unless you are backing it up first. For example, I had a tech guy on the first day of the server drop out, who gave me the wrong advice of deleting EVERYTHING from my keychain. This resulted in me having massive security issues for web browsers and thus, I couldn't log into my iCloud mail in my browser. Not only did I have to re-install my OS Maverick to fix it (which took 10 hours) but I could have muddled through this mess by continuing to work using web mail.
If everyone seems to be having a mail server problem based on online community discussions, then you are not alone and TELL your Apple tech this. Send copies of the links to the various conversations. Push them (nicely) to investigate internally what is going on and don't let them rely on the System support status. It also helps to put in a report to Apple down the track.
Make sure that you can get a copy of Apple tech guys email address. Thankfully, even though I was on the phone to them for in excess of 7 hours over the past two days, I could update my guy via email and also send him screen shots of things that did or didn't work using my iPhone. We would keep in contact and all I would have to do is send him an email and he would call me back straight away. No holding or dealing with any call centre issues, which is probably the only reason why I didn't lose my cool too much.
If you can get into your iCloud through your web browser, you have the options under the inbox and then the little wheel thing down the bottom (preferences) to put a vacation message, like an out of office. Put that on and explain you are having email issues and give another email address or your contact number. At least the people that you need to contact will know that things could get lost in cyberspace. I wish I had of known this earlier.
You can also forward emails emails to another email address under preferences. Also very handy.
Become friends with your tech guy rather than enemies. If you don't feel like your tech guy knows what he's talking about, politely request to speak to a supervisor. I would be having a nervous breakdown right now (small business owner, lost two days of billable hours so I am financially behind) if I didn't have a good relationship with the guy that has been helping me. We are a good team, with me updating him with the information, via these forums, to find a proper solution to the issue and to rectify the wrong information I was given by the previous Apple tech guy I spoke to.
Ask them to replicate your issue on their side of the fence to troubleshoot. For example, my tech guy Levi replicated my issue with websites by intentially removing the system certificate from his computer and he realised that was what the problem was, and thus he could quickly find out how to fix it.
Back up your stuff regularly. It might be annoying but it is peace of mind if know you are only going to lose a minimum of a week's worth of stuff.
Apple has an engineering team and tech guys raise 'tickets' to them with information on what has happened to their clients. I don't know much about this but I would assume it is having the engineering team investigate to stop this happening in future. They can only work with the feedback they get I suppose. I would also suggest doing the Apple Care survey so they also get feedback. We need to explain to them that we are asking for communication first and foremost - whilst it is inconvenient, if we all knew when and where they would be doing server upgrades (which the rumours indicate that this is what happened) then I don't feel everyone would be so frustrated.
Using your computer is like raising a child - you know when something is not right, even if you are not experienced at it yet. Sure, you may not know the lingo but trust your instincts and tell your tech guy. I have learned more in the past two days about computers and Mac's than ever before and I know when I can confidentially say that strange things were happening to my Mac and where Apple went wrong in guiding me. Don't always take a blanket or easy explanation if you don't think it is right; odds are it will result in making changes to your product that do more harm than good.
Keep a record of notes of how much time you have spent on the issue (including phone calls to Apple), what they have told you to do and at what time, changes to passwords, troubleshooting tips and the contact details (and reference numbers) of who you speak to. I'm not sure if Apple provides compensation for these issues or anything along these lines, but I certainly will be informing them so they can try and better their service to me in the future.
Anyway, I hope that helps everyone a bit - these are just things that I have learned and if anyone else has any tips please feel free to add them.

Tried port 465 but it wouldn't work.
Went to our help desk and here's the reply I got (paraphrased slightly cuz the person at the help desk was trying hard to be helpful and I don't want to get him/her in trouble):
I presented this question to the university team and then waited for a long time to get the following reply:
we do not allow relay from non-university IP addresses.
port 25 for smtp is a standard worldwide.
For the most part, that went right over my head and didn’t answer anything, but I hope it means something to you.
I called him to get more clarification, but all I really got out of it was that, if you don’t use exchange which is secure via port 443, then your other option is to use smtp. And then he said something about how relay, iron ports, and authenticated accounts work together to make it secure. I know it makes me sound a lot more inept than I am, but all that made little sense to me. What I gather, is… that by selecting SSL when configuring your client, it makes it so that your login info and mail content is safe. Sorry, I can’t provide a more cohesive and comprehensive explanation, but I think the bottom line is that they have combined a non-secure protocol with other stuff to make it secure.
So, I'm hoping that checking SSL and using port 25 somehow solves the problem to the satisfaction of our IT professionals at the University ...
Again, thanks for taking the time to educate the rest of us!

HT4864 When trying to update my Mail Account Mailbox Behaviours settings, when I try to close the settings pane the following messages occur: Invalid Incoming Mail Server The "Incoming Mail Server" field cannot be empty. The incoming mail server box has p

When trying to update my Mail Account Mailbox Behaviours settings, after making the changes when I try to close the settings pane the following messages occur: Invalid Incoming Mail Server The “Incoming Mail Server” field cannot be empty. The incoming mail server box has in light grey colour: p02-imap.mail.me.com in it and I cannot edit its content. Any ideas what is going on and how to fix it?

Hi all,
Mattreichenbach is probably on the right track here with a reset of settings. I think I've determined the issue has to do with cached account information and inconsistencies for the account name. This seems to crop up when I've changed my password and it hasn't propagated fully to all the servers, devices, certificates, etc.
Hopefully many here are on their way to restoration of service by now but it's clear that a lot of people are having the same issues. Very frustrating and definitely something Apple needs to resolve: incoming mail server field grayed out, incorrect autopopulation of different fields, other unanticipated behaviors. If you're still having issues, though, here's what worked for me...
First, head to the iCloud preferences pane in System Configuration and choose "Sign Out". When I did this it prompted me with a number of "are you sure" type questions about retaining information on my local machine. I chose to delete/remove the info each time simply because it should all be restored by the cloud and I didn't want to risk a massive duplication of my data... I will say, I'm back up and running with no issues so I suspect you can make the same delete/remove choices... But use your own judgment. I don't want you to lose any data (ie.. please use care as you do this because I cannot bear the thought of causing anyone to experience the pain of data loss).
Once you've signed out of iCloud, restart your system. When you get back in, head to the Mail, Contacts and Calendars section of your System Preferences and add your account back by choosing the brushed aluminum "iCloud" button. When it asks for your account name, use your @iCloud.com email address. I am all but certain my issue had started because one of my devices (iPhone or whatever) had been set up with an email alias specified instead of my @iCloud.com address.
Apple, if you're reading through any of these issues (there are TONS of users having this same problem). Take note, that your icloud service somewhat frequently is not responding and yet tells the user that the password is wrong and this prompts people to be changing their passwords unnecessarily. This has happened to me on numerous occasions. Also, I noticed that last week's outage corresponded to a VERY similar outage exactly one year ago to the day. Sounds like planned maintenance to me and I think you could do a better job notifying folks so we're not wasting HUGE amounts of time troubleshooting a problem that we have no hope of fixing.
Hope that helps some of you!
Terry Mullane
Washington, DC

Why do I get an "unable to connect - There may be a problem with the mail server or network." message from iCloud. I have verified the settings. I can access my iCloud account online but can't send or receive e-mail via the mail account.

Text limits to the "Question" link prevents a full explanation:
This is a long-time problem. I have tried to resolve it with Apple but their "Customer Support" is merely a name.
I can go online and access my e-mail but when I try to send or receive e-mail via iCloud through my internet server (Google fiber now but the same situation existed with my prior service), I receive "There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Verify the settings for 'Apple Email' and try again.
"The server returned the error: The server 'p0-imap.mail.me.com' refused to allow a connection on port 143."
Well, I have verified the setting and tried again and again and …
Well, you get the idea …

JungleTaxi Cabbie wrote:
Csound1: iCloud: Configuring Mail with Mac OS X v10.6 or iOS 4
Enter your Incoming Mail Server, User Name, and Password using the following settings:
Incoming Mail Server: mail.me.com
User Name: Your iCloud email address (excluding @me.com)
Password: Your password
Last Modified: Jun 27, 2013
Maybe you should test these things before calling people out, because these settings do function perfectly well.
iCloud is not supported on Snow Leopard or lower, why bother to mention it?
The OP has an iCloud account, and that can not be opened without Lion or Mountain Lion (on a Mac), IOS5 or 6 (on an iPhone/iPad)
The document I linked to is Apples documentation for iCloud on current devices,I don't care whether you believe that you know better than they do, but it will affect the people who follow your advice as it won't work
JungleTaxi Cabbie wrote:
Also, if you're not running Lion or Mountain Lion, there is no "Mail, Contacts & Calendars" prefpane.
I never said that there was, perhaps you imagined it.

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