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?
Thanks for anyone’s assistance.

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.

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