Mail synchro and smtp server problems

I have a permanent problem with using my MB Pro and email client. Instead of icloud email im using some other email adresses and its appear everytime when i come back home (using wifi connection) problems with Mail program. Sometimes appears in a folder to send sent email from two hours before. sometimes the whole program switch all accounts offline and its a big problem to switch it online. Also i can send something but one day after appear a window that this message wasnt send because .... now i have problem with my icloud account. i can see email in advance on my iphone and ipad but on computer in the best way in one hour. Could someone from you help me to solve it? before i have changed my job i was using MS Outlook on this computer and with less failures then this Apple product.

Felix,
I agree, I think it is a bug. My wife is experiencing the exact same issue on her MacBook after upgrading to Lion.
I submitted Mail feedback tonight to Apple. I hope they get this fixed pronto. My wife prefers Mail to the web interface or using her iPhone for mail. Thanks for explaining the issue.

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Mail 5 and SMTP server list

Hi,
ever since my upgrade to OS X Lion, I've noticed that the usage of the SMTP server list in Mail 5 seems to have changed. In the past, said list contained ALL configured SMTP servers. When configuring e-mail accounts (e.g. MobileMe) you could specify a default SMTP server from the server list and check a checkbox to ONLY use the specified server for outgoing mail of an account.
In Lion the meaning of this server list seems to have changed and I think I have discovered a bug that prevents me from using only a specific SMTP server with an account.
For accounts that are supported by Lion and listed under the "Mail, Contacts & Calendars" Preference Pane, Mail 5 seems to always use a default server setting for outgoing mail. For GMail, this default server seems to use SSL. However, for MobileMe the default server is not the service's SSL SMTP server.
Sending mail on non-SSL ports is a problem for me for two reasons:
1.) Obviously this a security/privacy issue.
2.) I'm a student and when logged into my universities network I can't send e-mail on default e-mail ports (25). Our servers block any outgoing e-mail on ports other than SSL/TLS ports.
So far this shouldn't be a problem, because you should be able to overwrite Mail's default server by configuring another MobileMe SMTP server with SSL in the server list and checking the checkbox depicted in the below screenshot.
Unfortunately, whenever I select the SSL enabled MobileMe SMTP server, activate the checkbox and save my changes, Mail will revert to the the default SMTP server without SSL immediately. If I delete the default server from the server list, it pops up again after saving the changes. There seem to be just two ways of sending e-mail using a different server than the default one:
1. Don't check the checkbox and specify the SMTP server for each e-mail you want to send.
2. Send using the default server. If sending the mail fails (because I am in my university's network), select the SSL SMTP server in the trouble-shooting popup.
Option one is annoying. Option two still bears the security/privacy problem and is annoying, because it takes ages for Mail to accept that a server does not seem to work.
There seems to be no way of fixing this behavior and I have it on both iMac and my Macbook Air. Is this a bug? Do you have any suggestions for a fix?
Thanks a lot,
Felix

Felix,
I agree, I think it is a bug. My wife is experiencing the exact same issue on her MacBook after upgrading to Lion.
I submitted Mail feedback tonight to Apple. I hope they get this fixed pronto. My wife prefers Mail to the web interface or using her iPhone for mail. Thanks for explaining the issue.

Mail.app and Exchange Server Problems?

I am an Apple Mail user and my university just switched to an Exchange Server 2003 for student e-mail. The university is only supporting Entourage, but I have configured Mail to work with Exchange without any major problem. This week, I have noticed that I have a problem where Mail.app will say that I have four new e-mails in my Exchange in-box. When I click on my Exchange in-box, no new e-mail appears. After experiencing this problem for about a week, I finally logged onto our Exchange web access site for the university. I discovered that I did indeed have four new e-mails in my in-box, but these e-mails were not showing up in Mail.app. Interestingly, all of the e-mails were undeliverable e-mails that had popped back because I had the wrong address. I am wondering why these e-mails would show up in on web access, but not show up in Mail.app.
I have spoken with our university tech. support numerous times and they have been unable to figure out the problem. It seems this may be a Mail.app isse as opposed to an Exchange problem.
Thanks,
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I use Exchange at work and have 5 Macs working with it w/o problems. The trick is to correctly specify SMPT and Outlook Web Access Server.
Do the following:
When you create a new mail account, choose IMAP or Exchange (if it shows on the list)
for Email Address specify your exchange email address
continue
for Incoming Mail Server: use name of the server without any prefixes such as mail. (The example shown under the box is wrong. It took me forever to figure it out)
for username and password use the same one you use when log in into exchange webmail
continue
for outgoing email server use the name of the server, again without smtp.
you may need to use authentification in order to send mail. In that case use the same user and password as when you log into your exchange
I was doing it as I was writing this to make sure it workes. It does.

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?
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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 do I set up a mail server and SMTP server to send messages to other mail servers at mavericks

How do I set up a mail server and SMTP server to send messages to other mail servers at mavericks

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Can't Send Mail Via HughesNet SMTP Server

After installing 10.5 I find that I can receive mail from my ISP (HughesNet) but I can't send mail through the smtp server. I've tried every setting possible and even duplicated the settings off my wife's 10.4.10 iMac and I still can't send mail. All I see is that the smtp service is "Offline."
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My mom uses RoadRunner by Time Warner. She was able to receive email using Leopard and Mail but not send. SMTP server was the big problem like everyone else here experienced. We finally were able to get it to work using many ideas here. What we did:
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2) Open Mail and create a new account but disable the automatic set-up feature, put your info in manually.
3) Uncheck " Use only this server" from the outgoing mail
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5) Now hit Create
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Bad Apple...stop criticizing MS and Vista when your own house is not in order yet. Hope this helps someone out there.....

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Ovi Mail IMAP and SMTP servers constantly down

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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.
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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!
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How to send email to a SMTP server over a secure channel using STARTTLS setting of a send connector (Exchange and SMTP server are in the same domain)

I’m trying to send email using exchange send connector STARTTLS setting to the SMTP server. I have read multiple documents on configuring TLS for send connector, but they talks about outbound connections to internet facing servers. My Exchange 2013 and SMTP
server is in the same domain (let’s say A.com) and I’m creating dummy domains on my SMTP server (e.g.
[email protected],
[email protected] ) and their respective send connectors on the exchange server end. In the smart host section added the IP address of the SMTP server and in the scoping section added the SMTP domain address (e.g. dummy1.local ). In the FQDN field, added
the FQDN of the exchange server 2013 which certificate is enabled with SMTP service.
Could you tell me a step by step procedure, where I’m going wrong or any extra settings needs to added?
Presently, it is giving me an error that 530 5.5.1 TLS encrypted connection is required.
Note: I’ve created the Microsoft CA certificates for the SMTP and exchange servers and imported them in the personal certificate container. In which, the exchange certificate is created with FQDN name of the server and enabled for the SMTP service.
I’m using OPENSSL certificate for making the SMTP server TLS enabled. (let me know, if I need to import the OPENSSL certificate anywhere on the exchange end)?
Thanks!

-IgnoreSTARTTLS is set to false on the send connector properties.
I'm trying to established a HTTP over TLS connection. I'm not using mutual TLS between these two server.
The send connector protocol logging is attached as below,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.468Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,2,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,220 SMTP.A.local Welcome (MTA version),
2014-09-22T20:09:45.546Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,3,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,>,EHLO Exchange.A.local,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,4,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-SMTP.A.local Exchange.A.local OK,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,5,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-SIZE,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,6,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-8BITMIME,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,7,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-BINARYMIME,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,8,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-PIPELINING,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,9,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-HELP,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,10,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-DSN,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,11,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-CHUNKING,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,12,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-AUTH SCRAM-SHA-1 GSS-SPNEGO DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 NTLM,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,13,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-AUTH=SCRAM-SHA-1 GSS-SPNEGO DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 NTLM,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,14,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-STARTTLS,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,15,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-DELIVERBY,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.624Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,16,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-MT-PRIORITY,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.640Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,17,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.655Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,18,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,>,STARTTLS,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.671Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,19,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,<,220 2.7.0 Ready to start TLS,
2014-09-22T20:09:45.687Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,20,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,*,,Sending certificate
2014-09-22T20:09:45.687Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,21,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,*,CN=Exchange.A.local,Certificate subject
2014-09-22T20:09:45.687Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,22,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,*,"CN=DC-CA, DC=A, DC=local",Certificate issuer name
2014-09-22T20:09:45.687Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,23,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,*,63E7E70100000000000B,Certificate serial number
2014-09-22T20:09:45.687Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,24,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,*,CAEB1200CDF49715E5F2E4B8315EFDDC01F8F945,Certificate thumbprint
2014-09-22T20:09:45.780Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,25,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,*,Exchange.A.local,Certificate alternate names
2014-09-22T20:09:46.654Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED5,26,10.219.3.74:24939,10.219.3.73:25,-,,Local
2014-09-22T20:09:46.669Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,0,,10.219.3.73:25,*,,attempting to connect
2014-09-22T20:09:46.685Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,1,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,+,,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.701Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,2,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,220 SMTP.A.local Welcome (MTA version),
2014-09-22T20:09:46.701Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,3,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,>,EHLO Exchange.A.local,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,4,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-SMTP.A.local Exchange.A.local OK,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,5,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-SIZE,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,6,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-8BITMIME,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,7,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-BINARYMIME,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,8,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-PIPELINING,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,9,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-HELP,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,10,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-DSN,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,11,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-CHUNKING,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,12,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-AUTH SCRAM-SHA-1 GSS-SPNEGO DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 NTLM,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,13,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-AUTH=SCRAM-SHA-1 GSS-SPNEGO DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 NTLM,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.716Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,14,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-STARTTLS,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.732Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,15,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-DELIVERBY,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.732Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,16,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250-MT-PRIORITY,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.732Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,17,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.810Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,18,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,*,,sending message with RecordId 52652004081667 and InternetMessageId <[email protected]>
2014-09-22T20:09:46.810Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,19,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,>,MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=7653 BODY=BINARYMIME,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.810Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,20,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,>,RCPT TO:<[email protected]>,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.825Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,21,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,530 5.5.1 A TLS-encrypted connection is required,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.950Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,22,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,<,503 5.5.1 unexpected RCPT command,
2014-09-22T20:09:46.981Z,Exchange-SMTP send connector,08D1A4A14C7EDED6,23,10.219.3.74:24940,10.219.3.73:25,>,RSET,

Write error. [Error sending mail message to SMTP server. Return code: [].]:

Hi ,
I am getting the below error when scheduling a report which is larger in size in excel format.
write error. [Error sending mail message to SMTP server. Return code: [].]: [CrystalEnterprise.Smtp]
The same error does not come up when sending the same report in XLS format using outlook.
Can some one confirm if this error is because of the size of the report as I see a different error in XIR2 incase the size the exceeds the email server limit.
~Neethi

Hi,
this could be
Maybe you have different limits for service smtp account (which the BO Server should use) and User smtp accounts.
Thats why you can sent it via outlook and not from the BO Server.
Regards
-Seb.

Mail SMTP server problem

My iCloud does not work in Mail in all my apple devices (mobile, Ipad, Mac etc.). It seems that my Apple Mail soft seems to disable my smtp server for outgoing mails (iCloud server, offline). However, I can still receive all incoming mails ...

Have you unchecked the box marked Mail in the iCloud preference pane and then checked it again? If not, please do that now and test.
I've tried what you said, but nothing changes.
I've tried also to sign out completely from iCloud and then sign in. It should rebuild the credentials stored in the Mac, but nothing works.
I post the screen that appears after it fails to send the message.
But on the other hand it works on the iPhone!!! I've unchecked and checked the mail box in the settings and now it works properly!
The problem still persist on the Mac. In other words this is not linked to the iCloud preferences, but on the Mac itself.

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.

11 e-mail accounts from different providers are suddenly giving me errors saying they can't connect to IMAP and SMTP server?

I have 11 e-mail accounts that was working fine a minute ago, but now they all say that they can't connect to the IMAP and SMTP servers.
They all work fine on my iphone.
How should i troubleshoot this?
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Nevermind, restarted for the third or fourth time, and now it works...
Perhaps it was a time-issue.

Email password smtp and pop3 server problem

My mail is continually asking me to enter password for my hotmail account, both for the pop3.live.com and smtp.live.com. It gives me an option to either enter my password or cancel, and neither option works. It is rejecting the password and my email won't work because of this! Is there a w way I can re set the password or anything?

For communications, use Sockets.
For what to send over them, see the following:
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Fredrik

Mail selecting incorrect SMTP server

I saw a post on this but I have a more specific problem, hopefully someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Here's my situation. I use my MacBook Pro at work, and I have to operate sometimes inside a firewall and sometimes out on the Internet. As a result, I have to maintain two different Account setups in Mail for the same actual email account. One setup (call it 'Mail') goes directly to the server address, uses normal SSL transport, and uses that internet SMTP server with SSL authentication. All works fine. However, when I'm inside the firewall, I have to use an SSH tunnelling setup to get to IMAP servers outside, so I use SSHAgent and tunnel my local ports to the server outside. That, also, works after much fiddling.
So I end up having two different 'accounts' in Mail - one to 'Mail' and one to 'Mail Tunnel.' At any given time, one or the other works, and the other is 'offline.' Here comes the problem.
I have specified in each of them that they have to use specific SMTP servers - the direct connection for 'Mail' and the localhost:port for 'Mail Tunnel.' The problem is that whenever I compose and send a message while inside, Mail.app always tries to send it to the 'Mail' SMTP server - the one with the direct address. Even if I'm sitting in the 'Mail Tunnel' inbox when I hit 'compose' - no joy. It always tries the 'external' mail server.
The only way I can send mail while inside is to go into preferences, go to the 'Mail' setup (not Mail Tunnel) and set it to use the localhost:port SMTP server and select 'Use Only This Server.' Then things work, until of course I leave the firewalled zone and have to go back and change preferences.
So what appears to be happening is that Mail isn't differentiating my outbound mail server based on the account I'm using. I'm wondering if that's because my 'REply-To' address and username are the same on both accounts, so somehow the SMTP server selection doesn't get done? I know there's a preference in the 'Composing' section to set where to send mail from...however, the only options there are '<my email address>@<my domain>' or 'Account of Last Viewed Mailbox.' I have it set to the latter. It doesn't say anything about what server to use, and the face that it's keying on my email address (which is the same for both accounts) leads me to believe that's what's going wrong - since the email address is the same in both cases, Mail.app doesn't think it has to select the outbound server. In other words, it's indexing on my Reply-To address, not on the 'Account profile.'
Am I crazy? Is there a way to make this work? Thanks.

And, if you select Mail's Accounts preferences in the Accounts Information tab, then select the Edit servers option from the drop down menu for Outgoing server, is each server associated only with it's respective account? And when observing the Outgoing server drop down menu does the name of the associated server change when you select each account from the sidebar?
If none of this is working still, then you may want to remove the /Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file to the Desktop. Then reconfigure Mail's preferences to see if that resolves the problem. As it is I cannot replicate what you've described on my system, so it could be a corrupted preference file on yours. You can test this by creating a new user account and logging into that account. Set up new Mail configurations for the new account to see if they function as expected.

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