Mail won't send emails
Tried to set up my yahoo account using mail, and while it will receive emails fine, it won't send them. When trying to send an email I get the spinning wheel next to the 'sent' folder, but after a while it tells me my password is incorrect and asks me to re-enter it. However re-entering the password just brings up the same box. I have the same issue on with thunderbird, when I try and set up my ymail account, it tells me my password is incorrect even though it is not. Thunderbird runs my hotmail fine, and mail on my iphone runs my yahoo fine.
Any help with this issue would be much appreciated as it is extremely frustrating
Hmmm…then try creating a new User account for testing purposes, setup Mail there with the same settings and see if the password is accepted there. If it is, that would seem to suggest that your Mail preferences file is corrupt, and the only way to be certain and correct it is to remove the current one and create a new one.
If you have to do that, there are different steps depending on whether you have a POP account, an IMAP account, or a combination of both, so let us know before you do anything so we can give you the correct instructions.
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CONNECTED May 31 11:45:24.629 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.west.cox.net -- port:587 -- socket:0x11ecf26b0 -- thread:0x11efb70e0
READ May 31 11:45:24.653 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.west.cox.net -- port:587 -- socket:0x11ecf26b0 -- thread:0x11efb70e0
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WROTE May 31 11:45:24.698 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.west.cox.net -- port:587 -- socket:0x11ecf26b0 -- thread:0x11efb70e0
EHLO [nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn]
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250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
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The last READ from the server does not contain any error that I can see, but I don't know what one would look like. At this point the dialog is up requesting a password.Apple's Mail has a known bug that it deletes your mail passwords sporadically.
Sounds awfully definitive. Has Apple verified this for you?
I will, from time to time, be prompted for a password. I cancel and try again five minutes later. 90% of the time, it works fine the second time. The other 10% of the time, I have to wait for an indeterminate amount of time, sometimes several hours. This indicates, to me, that there was a problem contacting the server. I used to see similar behavior with Eudora years ago before I switched to Mail.
I never have to actually re-enter the password. At no time have my passwords been deleted.
None of this answers your questions, but hey... you come on here and cry "bug" and you're going to get challenged if others aren't seeing a bug. -
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