Mountain Lion won't let me send mail. I have to re-configure every time I log on

Mountain Lion keeps me from sending messages. I have to re-configure everytime I send mail.

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Select "system.log" from the file list. Copy the words "Starting standard backup" (without the quotes) on this page and paste into the String Matching text field. Note the timestamp of the last message shown. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Post the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear.
Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — edit that out, too, but don’t remove the context.

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Cannot install Mountain Lion - my iPhoto won't quit and Mountain Lion won't let me do a force quit

I'm trying to upgrade to Mountain Lion but when it ries to quit all programmes to install my iPhoto won't quit as albums are being sync'd. I try to stop and quit but it won't. I then try to force a quit and Mountain Lion won't let it. help!

if you don't mind interrupting the album sync, you can do a hard shutdown of the mac by pressing and holding the power button down for 10 seconds to make sure it's all the way off.
you can then do SMC reset which is described in the following article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
after doing this turn on the mac, click on the black apple then force quit and make sure all apps are closed
open app store and try again to install the mountain lion

My ipad logs me out of every site if my screen turns off. It also clears all history. Even some of my email accounts won't let me send mail. Ever since the ios7 update, I am frustrated daily! How do I fix these problems?

My ipad logs me out of every site if my screen turns off. It also clears all history. Even some of my email accounts won't let me send mail. Ever since the ios7 update, I am frustrated daily! How do I fix these problems?

My ipad logs me out of every site if my screen turns off. It also clears all history. Even some of my email accounts won't let me send mail. Ever since the ios7 update, I am frustrated daily! How do I fix these problems?

TS3276 hi after updating to Mountain Lion, it becomes difficult to quit Mail, always have to Force Quit. And while Mail is on standby, the fan keeps on running full power, the laptop is hot. Why is this happening?

hi after updating to Mountain Lion, it becomes difficult to quit Mail, always have to Force Quit. And while Mail is on standby, the fan keeps on running full power, the laptop is hot. Why is this happening?

If your computer was hot it wasn't asleep - it either didn't go to sleep or it work up after you put it to sleep. I've seen both things happen. First, read this article and follow the instructions.
1) For the next few days/weeks pay attention to the blinking light on the front of your computer when you close the lid. Don't put the computer into your backpack/case until it begins to blink. Wait a minute or so after it starts to blink to make sure it doesn't stop blinking - the signal it woke back up.
2) having followed the above instructions, if you take the computer out and it is hot again or if you take it out and discover it has powered down (you'll know this because when it starts up the battery will be drained and you'll see a progress bar over a ghostly display that will eventually become normal) immediately start the Console program and perform a search on 'sleep' and then 'wake'. This should bring up all the recent log files about sleep state changes (going to sleep and waking up). You should see one for when you put the computer to sleep and put it away and the next one should be just after you got it out. You'll find at least one though that shouldn't be there. That will tell you when the computer work up (when it shouldn't have) and might give a clue as to why.
One of the whys could be a magnet that is making the computer think the lid has been opened.

Mountain Lion won't let my computer boot..

I installed mountain lion, and it installed then when I restarted it, it sat at the gray Apple boot screen. I held option and ran disk utility to repair anything and nothing was wrong. Now I held option again and am using the "search the internet for help" option. Someone please help, how do I fix this? My iMac is late 2009

Well, I ended up booting into the Recovery partition and selected "Reinstall Mountain Lion".
After it downloaded for about an hour an a half it reinstalled the operating system and then had me restart the computer.
I restarted and instead of going through the setup process, I was asked to login.
The new password worked! and all my stuff was still there!
I guess it was good I didn't wipe the drive before doing the reinstall, not sure what went wrong to begin with but now things are going well again. Hurray!

I've got a new iMac with Mountain Lion OS. Created a slideshow complete with music in iPhoto. Every time I try to export to iPhoto slideshow folder, it freezes. Help!

I've got a new iMac with Mountain Lion OS. Have created a slideshow complete with music in iPhoto, but every time that I try to export it to an iPhoto slideshow folder, it gets halfway through and freezes. This has been going on for a couple of days. I've tried opening iPhoto holding down the option key, but it doesn't make a difference. Any advice, please?

Upgrade to v9.4.1 or
Trash the HP Plug in from /Library/Application Support/iPhoto
There are two libraries where this plugin might be
HD/ Library
and
HD/Users/Your Name / Library
(On 10.7 or later: Hold the option (or alt) key while clicking on the Go menu in Finder to access the User Library)

HHHHHEEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!! Mail won't let me send! I HAVE to get emails out!!

I am a finalist in a nation-wide fiction contest, winner gets a publishing contract. Winner is the one w/ the most internet vets. So today I was sending out lots and lots of group emails and suddenly Mail stopped letting me email anything at all. I can get incoming but cannot send out. My husband thinks .Maac thinks I'm a spammer and cut me off. Meanwhile, NO ONE replies from .Mac for days. There's no freaking phone number (uh, hello. Get in the 21st freaking century, Apple). And I will LOSE this contest if I can't send out my emails. Anyone know what I can do about this??? I am starting to loathe apple. This is not the first time that Mail has really given me problems lately...
You can email me at [email protected] if you have any suggestions! thanks!

You're welcome.
No ISP or email account provider that I'm aware of provides a warning when you are about to reach their sending limits/restrictions.
after all, who the ** reads the entire handbook for .Mac
subscription services?!
Probably not too many but the "entire handbook" for a .Mac account is only a couple of pages at most which is the same with any ISP or email account provider and it is a customer's responsibility to do so and when we don't read all or at least a good portion of it, we don't have too much room to complain IMO.
I wish I understood what you meant by trying to get around this,
but I am too technologically dwarfed to comprehend it.
Who is your internet service provider that you use for connecting to the internet? Certainly your ISP provides an email account and SMTP server to use for their customers and if so, you can create an email account with your ISP (if you don't already have one) which you can access with the Mail application to receive and send messages with this account.
After creating your ISP's email account with the Mail.app, you can try selecting your ISP's SMTP server to send messages with your .Mac account which may get around the .Mac account restriction (which will be reset at midnight) or use your ISP's email account to send these messages but your ISP probably has a similar sending restriction. My ISP has a total number of recipients for all messages sent in a 24 hour period restriction which is higher than the .Mac account restriction.
Can I dodge this by sending things as blind copies?
No you can't. The restriction is for all recipients placed in the To:, Cc: or Bcc: fields. If not, all a spammer would need to do to send bulk spam mailings out to a unlimited number of recipients with a .Mac account is by using the Bcc: field. Most spammers use the Bcc: field anyway but spammers do not use email accounts with such limited restrictions and/or use a large number of email accounts to get around it.

Mail app won't let me send mail

Since updating to the newest operating system, my Mail app rarely works. I have three different work accounts set up with it and it only recently started connecting them all again. However, I'm still not able to send any mail at all from any of the accounts and I can't figure out why. I know that the passwords are all correct and I have always been able to send from here. The connection doctor just keeps saying it can't connect to my accounts when I'm trying to send. The purpose of me using the app is so that I don't constantly need to log in and out of different accounts in my browser. Does anyone know how to make this work again?

Similar problem here. The Troubleshooting link from Linc did not help, nor did over two hours on the phone with Apple Support using screen sharing. I have iCloud mail with three addresses: .mac, .me and .icloud. None of them will send. This issue has occurred fitfully for years, across multiple iMacs and Operating Systems. This time it has lasted for a week, forcing me to use iCloud Mail in Safari to send emails.
While talking to Support we tried to Edit the SMTP Server List, creating a new server at smtp.mail.me.com. After plugging in all the appropriate data and saving, it all vanished and reverted to Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): iCloud (iCloud, Offline). The newly created SMTP server was gone. Two different Support Techs watched this happen multiple times. I have signed out of iCloud and then recreated the account. I have even done a Clean Install of Yosemite, which involved hours and hours and then setting all my Prefs manually so as not to drag in any old, corrupt files. No change. Outgoing email sits in the Outbox folder and periodically pops up an error message saying it can't be sent.
In the past this issue only affected my iMac. Now it is also crippling outgoing mail on my MacBook.
Besides the Clean Install I have: Rebuilt Permissions, Reset PRAM and SMC, repaired Prefs, etc., etc.

TS3899 My email is not letting me send mail, I have optonline can someone please help

Hello,
I cannot send out emails from my optonline account from my iphone. Can someone please help? It says that the optonline server for outgoing mail failed but the server name and everything automatically came through when I set up my email. It then asks for a domain and host name. It there a general domain and host name just for optonline?

Try to delete and re adding the account, but make sure you know your current server settings, you can find those in the phones settings.
If that does not fix the issue, then it is most likely due the the outgoing mail server settings, I would google how to add a optonline email account to iphone, and you will be able to find those settings, if not i would give the provider of that email a call and ask them for the most up to date outgoing server settings for the iphones.
let me know if this helps.

Mountain Lion won't allow me to save photos from Mail directly to iPhoto (as you could in all other recent OSX). Tried opening iPhoto and then click/drag each photo onto iPhoto icon on dock (as Help instructed) but the photo will not drag. Suggestions?

Mountain Lion won't allow me to save photos from Mail directly to iPhoto (as you could in all other recent OSX). Tried opening iPhoto and then click/drag each photo onto iPhoto icon on dock (as Help instructed) but the photo will not drag. Suggestions?

I have real a lot of posts that say to click Command+Option while opening iPhoto and this will open the Photo Library Repair window, but... this is not happening.
Be sure you're holding the correct keys and that you're holding them long enough. Depress them before clicking on iPhoto and don't let go until the menu shows up.
If you don't want to lose those photos, make a back up now. Hopefully it's not too late.

TS3276 The mail doctor is saying my username and password are incorrect. They were not. I changed my password anyway, and it still won't let me send my mail. How do I fix this?

The mail doctor is saying my username and password are incorrect. They were not. I changed my password anyway, and it still won't let me send my mail. How do I fix this?

try to log in using webmail. if you can't do that, then issue is solved.

My mail program on my macbook pro suddenly won't let me send e-mails?

My mail program on my macbook pro suddenly won't let me send e-mails even though I can receive e-mails. I have checked with the connection doctor and it shows me everything is fine. The program haas been running perfectly fine for the last year, but now its bugging out. Can anyone give me any tipe on how to fix this? Thank you.

The problem is one of the following:
Your SMTP server is provided by a carrier which only allows the outgoing mail server to be used when you are connected to their network. Receiving emails will always work, but sending emails will only work when you are connected via their connection;
Your SMTP server is down - contact your email provider

Yay - got Mountain Lion. Boo - can't send e-mail

I've just downloaded and installed Mountain Lion and now can't send e-mail.
I'm getting mail OK, but when I try to send I get a message saying both of my e-mail accounts are offline.
I've checked settings again against those on iPhone and they're right.
I've tried clicking Take All Account Online, and it's greyed out, but I still can't send.
What's gone wrong in the upgrade?
Nick

Just seen a solution in 'more like this' that has worked for me:
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kid4today
Re: Can't send mail since downloading Mountain Lion Jul 30, 2012 2:23 AM (in response to HelenCW)
I was having this problem with my O2 email aswell. I found a fix that worked for me. go in to mails preferences, choose the accounts tab and click on one of your O2 accounts. find the drop down menu for the outgoing servers and choose 'edit server list'. click on the O2 smtp server then click on the advanced tab. there are 2 check boxes, one for 'use preferred ports' and one for 'use custom port'. mine was set to preferred port, I changed to 'use custom port' and used port number 25. this worked for me, hope it works for you too. you'll obviously need to make sure the port you choose is open in your firewalls.
Thanks Kid4today!

Hi Iv'e downloaded mountain lion but now can't open mail?

Hi Iv'e downloaded mountain lion but now can't open mail?

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Today I discovered a new treasure of doggie poop in Lion. No Save As......
I repeat. No Save As. In text editor I couldn't save the file with a new extension. I finally accomplished this oh so majorly difficult task (because we all know how difficult it should be to save a file with a new extension) by pressing duplicate and then saving a copy of the file with a new extension. Yet then I had to delete the first copy and send it to trash. And of course then I have to secure empty trash because if I have to do this the rest of my mac's life I will be taking up a quarter of percentage of space with duplicate files. So this is the real reason they got rid of Save As: so that it would garble up some extra GB on the ole hard disk.
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