Not receiving some mail and can't send mail to myself

I've been trying to get a password reset link from Paypal (which I haven't used since before I got my new Imac) but I'm not getting any of their emails. I called their tech support and had them send it twice more, but I'm still not getting anything and they have no clue what the problem is, even though I do get adverts from them. I tried sending myself an email and I can't get that either. I've been using AT&T internet for years so I'm forced to have email on my yahoo page as well as standard mac mail but I'm not getting the emails on my yahoo account (same address) either. What is going on and how can I fix it? Software is Lion 10.6.8

I would check each smtp server and ports and imap or pop3 depending on your mail provider
settings up against the mail providers listed settings to verify that your settings are set correctly

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I had an imap account in my iPad and my iPhone 4. They worked just fine till about Christmas. They act like they are checking the mail and it shows there is mail to come in, but it just goes back to saying checking mail. Can't send mail either.

I had an imap account in my iPad and my iPhone 4. They worked just fine till about Christmas. They act like they are checking the mail and it shows there is mail to come in, but it just goes back to saying checking mail. Can't send mail either.

Update to above question:
Hello All,
To anyone with the same problem described above, on THEIR iPad (if it is running iOS 7.0.2):
Go to Settings; Mail, Contacts, Calendars; DELETE your *******@btinternet.com e-mail account, that you originally set up either using 'Other', or the 'BT' option which I am sure was in the list previous to the iOS 7 update.
Then ADD a NEW account choosing YAHOO from the list of options. DO NOT USE 'OTHER'.
Enter the correct details just as you (almost certainly) had already done in your previous attempts using 'other'.
When you see the 'verifying......' and 'the blue ticks' you should be able to exit settings and open your mail app and then receive all your 'old' e-mails again, AND be able to SEND as well.
All my 'old' e-mails, were NOT found in the 'old e-mail' folder though. THEY are still in my inbox.
So this fix worked for me.
After I deleted my account from 'OTHER' and put it in Yahoo, I like other people also ended up with more folders.
I hope this works for you on YOUR Apple devices.
Bob

Receiving mail, but can't send mail with attachments?

Hello,
I can't send mails anymore, I have been able to send some without any attachments (i.e. reply doesn't work as it automatically attaches the original text). This started 3 days ago. Also, my mail doesn't seem to recognize powerpoint and word docs., but I a know the people who have send me such files do not have VISTA. When I choose "open with" then it works. So I have 2 problems, one being moe urgent then the other.
1) can't send mail with attachments
2) .doc (word), .pps (powerpoint)attachments are not always recognized.
thank you all!!!

Try going into Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > select the account > account name , tap on SMTP (under the 'Outgoing Mail Server' heading) and then tap on your Primary Server and try entering your email account and password and see if it then works

TS3276 Safari mail off-line and can't send mail?

I'm using Mountain Lion 10.8.2 on my MacBook Pro. While incoming Safari Mail seems to be working fine, more often than not, I can't send mail. On further investigation with Connection Doctor, I can connect to the Internet, but my SMTP outgoing pop A/C is offline, and I cannot send mail. Is there a solution to going online to correct this problem? Many thanks.
DenMan1

Do you really mean Safari - the web browser? If so, you should contact your mail service for support. If you mean Mail - the program, (the little postage stamp icon in the Dock), have a look here:
Mail: Troubleshooting sending & receiving email messages
charlie

Phone won't receive some messages and has trouble sending

My phone will not receive messages and has trouble sending them. I receive some messages but then my phone goes crazy and just keeps vibrating and nothing shows up. how do i fix this?

"Messages" - SMS/MMS, iMessage, or both?
Define "trouble sending"
What troubleshooting steps have you tried?

Can recieve mail but not relayed to local users, can't send mail,

I am working on setting up a home server for web and email. I have server 10.2 and I can get the web working fine but the mail is giving me fits. The computer is behind by router on my private network. I have a domain name that is set for my router and it forwards all requests to the server. Have done that before with linux. I have set the computers network name to be the same as the domain name(probably a mistake). I can get the mail to be accepted by the server but then it gives a no user error when transfering to the local host for delivery. The only way I can edit using any of the tools is to type in the IP number and not the name.
Should I have named it something like server.domain.com? It is not too far along to reformat and start over. How do you change the network name? Is the network name my problem? I have tried messing with the DNS but it is not as easy and it sounds for 10.2 as in later versions.
Any suggetions would be helpful.
David

It's been too long since I've seen 10.2 to give you tips on it's mail config....
The main issue you may have is that your router probably doesn't support loopback. This page has a good explanation:
http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/loopback_connections.html
You can use /etc/hosts as described in the article if the machines stay in the office. Another solution is to change your router to one which does support loopback.
Jeff

Have a ipod 4th gen can receive mail but can't send mail anybody have the same problem?

i have a 4th gen ipod touch, i can't send emails but i can receive them can anybody help fix this problem?

You have an error or omission in the entries for the outgoing server. Somtimes it is easier to delete the account on the iPod and recreate it rather than trying to find the error. If you give us you provider and type of account (POP3, IMAP, Exchange) we may be able to provide more detailed information.

New iphone and not receiving some calls and txt's....Y???

I just got the phone yesterday and they put a new sim in the phone. Immediately began to work and used it for most of the day with no problem. Then around 5 started not receiving texts back from people and also not receiving phone calls. Now the texts come in very late. Anywhere from 10-30 minutes after they have been sent and the phone calls are heading straight to my voicemail and not even ringing. I need help! Is this a hardware problem on the phone? Sim problem with ATT? HELP!!! Thank You!

You'll need to contact ATT about this. They handle the voice and text portion of the phone.

Leopard Mail and Filemaker pro - "Send Mail" is s-l-o-w

When I upgraded to Leopard, I began having a problem with the "Send Mail" function in Filemaker Pro, even after I upgraded to the latest version. Previously, sending mail with an attachment to 300 BCC addresses went very quickly - about 10 seconds. Since Leopard, I have begun seeing each address get loaded into the BCC line, an operation taking 20 minutes or more. Has anyone else seen this, and are there any suggestions on how to remedy it?

You might try this.
MAC Mail, for some reason, wants a DNS server setting in the network setup.
Under System Preferences, go to Network and add your DNS numbers for your ISP Server. Get the right numbers from your ISP. I did a search for "DNS" on the ATT/YAHOO member web site.
This fixes the slow checking and sending of mail....It also fixes problems where mail sends slow and may give Authentication errors.
I spent many hours on this and finally the answer was posted on this forum.
Public DNS servers are less likely to be changed. They have been tried and do work. Nobody knows why.
For Public DNS servers look at.
http://www.tech-faq.com/public-dns-servers.shtml

Firefox and Thunderbird do not communicate anymore : I can't open links from TB emails ( a href... ) and can't send mail from FF pages (mailto)

Hi there,
Please excuse me if a make a few mistakes, I am French ;)
I come here because firefox and thunderbird are not working together anymore. This is what happens :
- Firefox and Thunderbird are opened
- I click on a link in an email
- A few seconds after that a Firefox windows pops up. The title is : "Close Firefox", the content is : "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."
Second case :
- Firefox is closed and Thunderbird is open
- I click on a link in an email
- A few seconds after that a Firefox windows pops up as expected. Firefox opens the link as expected but doesn't opens the other tabs as usual (when i start FF it re-opens previous tabs)
Third case :
- Firefox and Thunderbird are opened
- I click on a link to send an email (<a href="mailto:......@.....">)
- A few seconds after that a Thunderbird windows pops up. The title is : "Close Thunderbird", the content is : "Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."
As in the second case, if TB is closed when i click on the mailto, TB opens properly and send the email.
If Internet Explorer is set as my default browser, it works fine for "Thunderbird -> link -> IE" but the "IE-> mailto -> TB" still doesn't work.
I already looked up for some answers on google but can't find something which works.
Thank you in advance for your answers.
Vincent

Check the target field in the Firefox desktop shortcut and make sure that you do not start Firefox with the -no-remote switch or have set the environment variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 (Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment variables).
Always make sure to start at least the default profile without the -no-remote command line switch.
If you need to have more than one profile open at the same time then start subsequent instances with the -no-remote command line switch.
You can not send links from other programs to a Firefox instance that is started with the -no-remote switch.
In such a case you need to drag links in a Firefox window or paste the link in the location bar.

Outlook and mail services/ can't send mail to external emails

I have been setting up os x server as a mail server for my company. I bound open directory to active directory but could not manage mail for the active directory users that way, so I started creating new users through open directory.
I've hit a couple snags that I can't quite figure out. First, I can send and receive mail to other open directory accounts fine, but not externally. I've set up my MX records and a name records for my Internet domain.
I can receive emails from an external email address, I.e. Gmail, but cannot send to them. It gets stuck in the mail server's queue. Information logs says operation timed out for smtp.gmail.com and their ip address.
I forwarded the ports, 25, 993, etc from my dsl router to my firewall router, then from there to my mail servers static ip address. I'm at a loss. If it matters, I'm on a residential dsl currently, my ISP claims to block port 25, but in the log it looks like it goes through and sees gmails ip.
Secondly, this is all through the mail.app for my MBP. When I set up outlook 2003 on xp, I can send emails, but it doesn't download any. No errors in either the information log or outlook, outlook says it completed successfully. If it matters, I was getting an error from outlook previously, helo error for not a fqdn, but I deleted a line in the main.cf that required fqdns.
I appreciate any help.

***EDIT*** I have outlook working....now it is just the external email thing. Again...my ISP says they block port 25, but I went into /etc/postmail/master.cf and added to have SMTP go on port 2525 and still no go. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
***END EDIT***
I apologize...here is the SMTP information level log for sending to gmail
Jun 29 16:36:18 ANSENMSG postfix/smtp[17251]: 152CB659FA: to=<***@*******.***>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=6.3, delays=0.03/0/0/6.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok, id=15055-04, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 582EA65A09)
Jun 29 16:36:18 ANSENMSG postfix/qmgr[15069]: 152CB659FA: removed
Jun 29 16:36:48 ANSENMSG postfix/smtp[17299]: connect to mail.*******.com[**.***.**.**]:25: Operation timed out

At some places I can't send mail

In most places I go to with WiFi I can send and receive mail. When I go to a few other places it will not let me send emails but I can receive them. Why is this

Did you set up your SPF record in your DNS? If not you can find more info about that here
http://www.openspf.org/
Something like this is what you'll probably need
"v=spf1 a mx"
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After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I am not receiving some of my emails. Sender gets error message: Status 5.5.0.

I am using Outlook for Mac on my MacBook Pro. All was working well until I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2). Since the upgrade, some (not all) of my incoming email messages are bounced back to the sender with the message: ....Status: 5.5.0....Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 250 OK. What can I do to resume reception of all of my email?

I am using Outlook for Mac on my MacBook Pro. All was working well until I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2). Since the upgrade, some (not all) of my incoming email messages are bounced back to the sender with the message: ....Status: 5.5.0....Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 250 OK. What can I do to resume reception of all of my email?

Can't read body of e-mail and can't send e-mails with text in body.

The mail on my IPOD touch suddenly doesn't show up in the body of the text. Only can read "From, To and Subject". I also am unable to send e-mails as I can't get into text body. I have twice deleted the account and installed again but problem still occurs.
Can somebody please help or direct me to where I can find help.

Software was just updated and works fine.

HT4864 Mail client can't send mail with @me and @icloud

Why my mail account @icloud or @me don't work well with my mai client (windows live mail 2012)? I've setted the right parameters, but i can only recive the email, when i try to send it the account don't work! I've setted the mail client with this parameters:
IMAP (Incoming Mail Server) information:
Server name: imap.mail.me.com
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Password: Your iCloud password
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SSL Required: Yes
Port: 587
SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
Password: Your iCloud password

The following link may provide help...
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/35350/how-can-i-add-my-icloud-email-acc ount-in-windows-live-mail

Not receiving some mail and can't send mail to myself

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