Outgoing server keeps failing

Randomly when I try to send mail my outgoing server fails. The drop down window invites me to try again with selected server or change servers .... none of which work!
At the same time the window wanting me to sign in with my password appears.... Help!!

My problem is similar. Using Mac OS Mail. Every so often (random, no pattern) out of the blue the SMTP server (mediacombb) is forgotten. I don't have multiple outgoing servers, so it just asks me 'which one' I want to use. And of course there's only one listed, so I use that, and it sends just fine. WHY does it keep forgetting to use the one server I have listed? Makes no sense.

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My phone keeps saying that the IMAP and the outgoing server are failing.

For the past 3 days it has been saying either my IMAP is failing or my outgoing server is failing. I don't know what to do and I need my emails for school. I have a 4s but I just recently updated and it seems like it all started after that. I have internet and my emails work on the computer so it has to be something with my phone itself.

When you updated the phone it may have erased your passwords. It will do that if you don't have your backup encrypted and you upgraded using iTunes on your computer. So go to Settings/mail,contacts,calendars and reënter the passwords for both incoming and outgoing mail.
If that doesn't resolve the problem you should delete the email account in Settings/mail,contacts,calendars. Then reset the phone by holding the HOME and SLEEP buttons until an Apple logo appears (you will not lose any data), and finally recreate the account.

Why can i not get my email to send from my mac? the outgoing server keeps saying its offline?!

why can i not get my email to send from my mac? the outgoing server keeps saying its offline?! any help would be greatly appreciated

markwmsn wrote:
To each his own. I own Outlook, but I avoid using it like the plague. The only Mac mail software I have liked better than Apple's Mail was Qualcomm's Eudora, which is no longer updated or even available, won't run without Rosetta, and unfortunately never quite got the hang of IMAP.
Check out this post regarding this user's continuing use of Eudora on his Lion MacBook:
Shield Eudora from Lion's Claws
A thousand thanks and kudos to Michael for this fabulously excellent thread!
Eudora's now happy in her new Snow Leopard VM home on my Lion ModBook!
Appears essential to keep resource-forked data off Lion disk:
First attempt with Eudora on SL VM was sharing data on Lion disk. Error messages on open like "can't find Table of Contents" suggest Lion ate resource forks crucial to Eudora.
Found success by transferring data from SL Mac to thumb drive, then mounted drive in SL VM so Lion couldn't touch.
While Michael warns against storing data in VM, appears there's no choice with Eudora. At least She's enthroned on a mirrored RAID.
There is Nothing like Eudora! (to tune of "There is Nothing Like a Dame" from South Pacific -- Oops! my gray hair is showing!)
(It's amazing Parallels can force Lion to store taboo resource forks. Thank God for code warriors!)
B
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=16496788&postcount=355

Yahoo mail can't send - Outgoing server "(null)" failed

I can not send ONLY from MY Yahoo email address. When I try to send a message is says "Outgoing Server '(null)' failed."
I have tried changing my password to one without numbers or characters, deleting the account and re-adding, restoring the iPhone. Nothing.
Here is the wierd thing: any other Yahoo account works just fine. My wifes yahoo address works perfectly, I created a new one and it works perfectly as well. It is just my address. Has anyone else had this problem?

I have the same problem. The issue is IMAP vs. POP. Setting up the bizmail account with the pre-loaded "YahooMail" link in the Mail setup options sets up your bizmail account with IMAP settings. While this allows you to see all your storage folders from the server, for whatever reason, you can't receive mail as the incoming server "null" fails. I can send mail just fine, but I can't receive. Now the work-around was to set it up as an "other account," not using the YahooMail link. Then you have to select "POP", then use "pop.bizmail.yahoo.com" (ignore the quotes) for the incoming mail server with SSL turned OFF. For outgoing, you use "smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com:465", turn ON SSL. The 465 designates the correct port, so you should have that in there. This will allow you to both send and receive, but will NOT allow you to view your storage folders. The account would have to be set up as IMAP in order to see those folders, but I have been unsuccessful in getting that information from yahoo business support. They are as useless as the "geniuses" at the Apple Store. Hope this helps!

Yahoo Biz mail can't send - Outgoing server "(null)" failed

I recently purchased the iPhone and can't get my Yahoo biz mail account to send mail, it only receives. I have read the other thread on this topic and reported it via the Apple feed back site but I still have not seen anyone post a reply that has found a solution for this other than using POP3 which then limits folder access only to the inbox. Does anyone have a success story for this issue and a way to solve the problem? Please reply if you have any info. Thanks!

Try cwmx.com as the host name on outgoing server under mail. I don't use Yahoo biz mail , but it solved my problem last week

My outgoing server is failing on iphone

My email is all of a sudden not sending emails. It says the connection to the out going server smtp.email.me failed. I havent changed anything on my phone so im not sure why all of a sudden it stopped.

Hello Arianasan
Check out the article below for troubleshooting issues with sending email from your iPhone. You may just need to remove the account and then add it back in.
iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1398
Regards,
-Norm G.

I have a yahoo email account on my iphone 4s and the server keeps failing? pls help

My rocketmail account will sometimes work and sometimes not.
This has been happening for a month or so? I have tried deleting the account and reloading it on, when I do that it works fine for a while then will error (connection to the server failed).
I can send emails fine, the issue seems to be trying to recieve? I have not changed any settings and it had been working fine for a nearly a year now!
Any help would be mauch appriciated and given a small round of applause.
Jay

Yahoo mail servers are famous for failing regularly. If it works at times and doesn't and settings have not been changed, I would guess it is because of this.

Cannot Send Mail "The connection to the outgoing server "(null)" failed.FYI

Had this problem for 24 hours when trying to send email from one (not all) yahoo email accounts on my iphone.
In the meantime, there were errors from yahoo about the account being disabled due to "suspicious activity."
I called both yahoo and apple tech support to report. The latter had some basic troubleshooting steps, but these did not fix the problem:
1. remove message from outbox (so it does not keep attempting to send the "Unsent message")
2. turn off all email accounts in Settings>Mail.
3. Delete the problematic account in Settings>Mail.
About a day later (today) regular service resumed and I am able to send emails from this account without problems.

Sounds like this was a Yahoo problem.

Finder sidebar connection to 'shared' server keeps failing

I'm on the same network being managed by Windows Small Business Server 2011, and I'm running Lion. I was always able to connect to the server via the sidebar in finder no problem. Yesterday our internal firewall wacked out and everyone lost connection to the server/internet. It took a few hours to get the firewall restored, and now I can't connect to the server anymore via the sidebar. All the 'shared' listing show up that are supposed to, and I can connect to ones that I wasn't connected to at the time the firewall went down, but I can't connect to the server now. I ran the Consol app and tried connecting, here's the error that showed up 'SharePointBrowser::handleOpenCallBack returned 61'. The popup either shows one of two messages on any given try:
'Check the server name or IP address, and then try again. If you continue to have problems, contact your system administrator.'
OR
'This file server will not allow any additional users to log on. Try to connect again later.'
Is there a way to just 'reset' these connections or something, or clear some cache and make it think its the first time again? It seems like it panicked once it lost connection and maybe something got corrupt? There's another Mac on the network (iMac also running Lion) that this is happening to as well. Any help is greatly appreciated, I've tried a ton of things from searching online with no success. Oh, I should mention that I am able to connect to it via Go->Connect to Server and using the IP address or the hostname. Just not from the sidebar anymore.

Same here. I just hired a new employee a few weeks ago and she's spent more time watching the spinning beach ball of death than putting in billing hours! Happens when the laptops are on the ethernet connection or wireless, worse with wireless. With so many projects and multiple people working on them it is impractical and illogical to drag files onto multiple computers. This all worked just fine before. I've wasted so much time trying to work around this and it's wasting so much $$ a day it's making me crazy. Hello Apple, pretty please......

Outgoing server failed

I keep getting error messages saying that my iphone cannot connect to my incoming server and my outgoing server has failed. I have checked all the settings against what my host provided and they are correct. What is going on? My iphone is on the Verizon network and it's iphone4.

whoa and behold guys, I have the same problem BUT I fixed it. I was up all night looking for answers. I wanted to reply back this morning from a guys email sent to my aol email stating to pray for a job promo. this morning newspaper he made headlines for the school district board of something I dunno..
So I wanted to reply congrats, but thats were I encountered the problem.
I figured I put in the USERNAME and PASSWORD, AGAIN in the outgoing mail server portion (smtp), which is the last portion. leave your advance settings the same as usual I think. for mines, use SSL on both incoming and outgoing, password authentication, and of course 993 port for incoming, 587 for the other..
I tested mailing from my gmail to my aol mail address, and I had my aol software open. I checked aol mail on my iphone, and while watching the aol screen the mailbox icon went away.. MAGIC!!
but thats not what you want to hear..... i replied BACK on my iphone.. and it SENT!!! i checked my gmail.. WHOA AND BEHOLD there it IS!!!! you guys will want to thank me badly LOZL

IPhone message. "Cannot Send Mail" "The connection to the outgoing server.

It states:
"Cannot Send Mail" "The connection to the outgoing server "(null)" failed."
This is the error I get attempting to send Yahoo mail using EDGE network on at&t.
I would guess that only 2-3 emails out of every 10 go through. The rest get the above error message.
Please help if you can.
Thanks

Well, if your on ATT Yahoo. The settings are as follows, and I've had luck both sending and recieving with these settings.
Incoming Mail Server
Host Name: pop.att.yahoo.com
User Name: *****@sbcglobal.net (or whatever your ATT domain might be)
Password: Required
Outgoing Mail Server
Host Name: smtp.att.yahoo.com
User Name: ****@sbcglobal.net (or whatever your domain happens to be)
Password: Optional (I left mine blank)
Under Advanced
Deleted Messages: Remove After ? (Your Choice)
Incoming Settings
Use SSL : On
Authentication: Password
Delete from Server: Your choice
Server Port: 995
Outgoing Settings
Use SSL: On
Authentication: Password
Server Port: 465
I've taken these setting from my phone. I can't remember all the domain names for the ATT Yahoo, but I know sbcglobal is one, and I believe attglobal is another. Also to change the ports under advanced, though you shouldn't have to, simply click the port area and a keypad will come up below. You can type the port number there.

Connection to the outgoing server failed

My iPhone keeps saying connection to the outgoing server "smtp.mac.com" failed. I also have 2 unsent messages that have been trying to send for 2 weeks. I have 2 questions:
1) How do I get rid of the connection failure?
2) Where are the unsent messages and how do I delete them?
Thanks for any advice

whoa and behold guys, I have the same problem BUT I fixed it. I was up all night looking for answers. I wanted to reply back this morning from a guys email sent to my aol email stating to pray for a job promo. this morning newspaper he made headlines for the school district board of something I dunno..
So I wanted to reply congrats, but thats were I encountered the problem.
I figured I put in the USERNAME and PASSWORD, AGAIN in the outgoing mail server portion (smtp), which is the last portion. leave your advance settings the same as usual I think. for mines, use SSL on both incoming and outgoing, password authentication, and of course 993 port for incoming, 587 for the other..
I tested mailing from my gmail to my aol mail address, and I had my aol software open. I checked aol mail on my iphone, and while watching the aol screen the mailbox icon went away.. MAGIC!!
but thats not what you want to hear..... i replied BACK on my iphone.. and it SENT!!! i checked my gmail.. WHOA AND BEHOLD there it IS!!!! you guys will want to thank me badly LOZL

I have an iMac, and have a Verizon DSL account. Recently, my Mac Mail keeps requesting the passwords on my account every few minutes, and will not allow me to send messages using Mac Mail. I cannot edit the outgoing server; how can I send emails?

I have an iMac, and have a Verizon DSL account (3 email addresses). Recently, my Mac Mail keeps requesting the passwords on my accounts every few minutes, and will not allow me to send messages using Mac Mail (the message says that the outgoing server was rejected. I cannot edit the outgoing server, and the keychain will not save my passwords (the ports are valid). How can I change the outgoing server to send emails, and how can I avoid having Mail request my passwords every 2 minutes? Verizon, as usual, will not provide support to iMacs.

Is there an email saved in your drafts or outbox folder? I suspect that Mail is continually trying to send it, and each time Google is rejecting the email message.
You can open the message and then delete it from your Outbox folder. Then try removing all @gmail email addresses from it and seeing whether you can send to the other folks. I suspect that will work.
With email, if an SMTP server *can* verify email addresses, sometimes it will and it will refuse to send messages. If a message has to be relayed across servers, no verification is done, and you'll get a bounce if an email address is bad.

Why do new hard drives keep failing in Mac Mini OSX Server?

Why new new hard drives keep failing in Mac Mini OSX server?

If it only failed in 8 days.. I just return the drives back to newegg and get a different brand like western digital. NewEgg has a 30 day return policy.
If you deal with any hard drive manufacturer now, they will give you a refurbished item and not a new item that you are entitled.
As for testing hardware....
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
even if it still passed Apple tests.. it does not mean logicboard is fine..... it just means it passes the tests.
At this point, If i were you, I would just go back to NewEgg and send back the Seagates letting know they are bad and prefer a different brand such as Western Digital.
Install the Western Digitals and see how long they last. If they fail again in a a short amoung of time, it's the logicboard then.
This is based on experience in dealing with repairs with Macs, PCs, and other various kinds of Servers and computers over the last 10+ years.
In fact, One of my clients who has a Dual 4-core Intel Xeon Server with a Supermicro logicboard, one of their SATA drive ports are bad. Every 4 months like clock work the Mirror RAID Drive would degrade on that port. Then after figuring out that the drives are not necessary bad, I swapped to using another spare SATA port and since then no problems.

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I am having difficulty setting up my work email on my iphone 5
I can receive emails but cannot send. An error comes up and says, The connection to the outgoing server [email protected] failed. Additional Outgoing mail servers can be configured in settings....
My company name is CTS, so my email is [email protected]
Can you please guide me through the process?
Thank you.

I am paying a major UK provider for authenticated SMTP access, and they confirm it should certainly work when out and about with the iPhone (as did British Telecom before them - BT insisted it should work "anywhere in the country"). The settings are correct. But it hardly ever works. With BT, the usual message was "No response from the server mail.btinternet.com". With my current provider, it's "The connecton to the outgoing server . . . failed". Very occasionally it does work, which presumably confirms that the settings are correct (which I know anyway).

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