Setting up yahoo e-mail on .mac account

How do I setup my Yahoo e-mail account to be read from my .mac account when I open Mail program?

From reading previous posts one has to have a paid Yahoo e-mail account to use Apple Mail program. So this post is answered. Thanks

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Help setting on Yahoo! mail account.

When I go to make a new acount in Mail it asks me for
Account Type: (.Mac, POP, IMAP, EXCHANGE)
Account Discription:
Full Name:
Username:
Password:
I have a Yahoo! Mail account and I'm quite sure that it's a POP server. So when I choose the POP server it asks for my Account Discription which is default "POP ACCOUNT" and than my namw and e-mail address...So i enter my E-mail address and hit continue.
The next step is to set up your Incoming Mail Server. This is where I get stuck. I don't know what server yahoo works off of...is it just "mail.yahoo.com" i'm not sure! but when I do enter "mail.yahoo.com" and than my password it says..
"The POP server “mail.yahoo.com” is not responding. Check your network connection and that you entered the correct information in the “Incoming Mail Server” field. If it still doesn’t respond, the server might be temporarily unavailable.
If you continue, you may not be able to receive any email."
Any imput would be appreciated!

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Cannot send email from Mail through .mac account

I have recently opened a .mac account and started using the email service. It works fine online however I am having difficulty sending messages through the Mail application in Tiger.
Whenever I attempt to send a message, a dialog box appears saying "Cannot send message using the server smtp.mac.com".
I have tried looking at the setting in preferences. I have deleted and .mac a/c setting in Mail and re-set them up, all the problem persists.
Please help!

Hello David.
Who is your ISP used for connecting to the internet and are you accessing an email account snd SMTP server in Mail provided by your ISP?
If so, can you send messages with the email account and SMTP server provided by your ISP?
Most, if not all ISPs now block the use of SMTP servers that are outside of their network (or not provided by the ISP used for connecting to the internet) on Port 25 which is the standard port used for SMTP servers. Some ISPs allow the use of an authenticated SMTP server only (such as the .Mac SMTP server) that is outside of their network on Port 25 but some block its use regardless.
These restrictions are part of an overall effort to prevent spam emanating from the ISP's domain.
Something to try.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and under the Account Information tab for your .Mac account preferences at the SMTP server selection, select the Server Settings below for the .Mac SMTP server.
Enter 587 in place of 25 in the Server Port field and when finished, select OK to save the changed setting.
Test if this resolves the problem.
If not and you are accessing an email account and SMTP server in Mail that is provided by your ISP used for connecting to the internet, select/use your ISP's SMTP server to send mail with your .Mac account which is invisible to all recipients.

Cannot send mail from .mac account in Entourage

I am a new mac user so my troubleshooting skills are very weak. Until about one week ago, i was able to send mail from both my hotmail account and my .mac account. Now, i get this error (just on my .mac account):
An operation on the server timed out. The server may be down, overloaded, or there may be too much net traffic.
i read through much of the support articles, but did not find my specific error. can anyone help??
thank you
mknz
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7) new mac user
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7) new mac user

it may be that your server (internet provider) has just started blocking outgoing mails not authenticated by them.
Go to your account set up...
and fill in the following details.
SMTP SERVER: smtp.mac.com
then click on advanced sending otions...
click on override default SMTP port... type 587
click on SMTP servber requires authentication...
use same setting as receiving mail server.
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Cannot receive mail from .Mac account on port 143

I use my laptop at work. I used to have a 12" Powerbook G4 running OS X 10.4.3. I had no problem receiving mail from my .Mac account. Now, and all of a sudden, I can no longer receive my .Mac mail using the Mail app. The error I get is:
The server "mail.mac.com" refused to allow a connection on port 143.
I called AppleCare about this issue last night and they told me to perform the following steps:
1. Choose .Mac in System Preferences and delete my username and password from the Account tab.
2. Move com.apple.mail.plist and the Mail folder from my ~/Library folder to the desktop.
3. Restart the Mail app and re-import the Mail folder from the desktop. I was told not to directly copy the Mail folder from the desktop into the ~/Library folder.
4. Go back into .Mac in System Preferences and re-enter my account information.
According to AppleCare, things should now work. But there's a little problem with this "solution." I spoke with my network admin and he told me that incoming traffic on port 143 is blocked. That being the case, I fail to see how any of the above steps will solve my problem. It seems nothing more than an issue of trying to get my network admin to open port 143 and he seems reluctant to do that.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Richard

I've solved this problem. Well, actually, I didn't do anything other than:
1) Rebooting my computer, then...
2) Following the instructions at the top of the following thread to re-create my email accounts (I had two):
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1598309#1598309
Not sure what this fixed, and how I got into this issue in the first place.
I had four or five days worth of email to come in... it took...
...a...
...long...
...time...
But its looking like its working.
A few things I tried, and although they didn't have an immediate effect to fix the connection refused problem, they might have kicked something to start something working again:
1) Created a new 'test' user on the system, restarted, logged in as that user, and started Mail.app setting it up with .Mac settings (it was after this everything worked)
2) Changed SSL ports in the accounts settings (no difference)
3) Turned firewall on and off (no difference)
4) Attempted to use Thunderbird to read .Mac email as IMAP mailbox (didn't work)
Hope this rather obvious help helps anyone else

Here's how to set up Yahoo POP mail with instant "PUSH" functionality

Originally I used iTunes to sync and dump my POP mail settings into the iPhone during my first sync after activation.
DON'T do it this way and if you did delete that account from the iPhone and then go into the Mail settings on the iPhone and set up the mail settings under the "Add Account" feature. The top selection is Yahoo. It will simply ask you for the mail username and password. Once you complete this you will now have the greatly useful and most desired instan "PUSH" mail promised in conjunction with AT&T, Yahoo and Apple. A great thing.
All other POP mail settings are set to simply check your email every 15, 30, 45 etc minutes. This is no fun.
Once I reset the iPhone and set up the new account email is instant and you get the beloved "bing" alert as the come in.

I was able to get this to work and push email works with my Yahoo account. Unfortunately, the iPhone mail does not respect the 'reply-to' setting for yahoo mail.
When I send mail from Yahoo mail on the web, the reply-to address makes it look like the mail is coming from my standard business account.
But when I send mail from my iPhone, the "@yahoo.com" email address is all that shows up in the outgoing message!
I don't like this because I would prefer that all the email I send has the same reply-to address, so my recipients don't get confused.
Is there a workaround or fix for this?

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I'm having a problem that must have a simple solution but I can't find it. When I delete my email off my .mac account ( the apple server), it deletes the messages off the inbox on my computer even if they have been downloaded to my computer.
How can I stop this?
thanks
IMac Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Another helpful bit of information that you may like to know about...
If you move a mail message out of your inbox and into a folder that you have set up (I think this was labeled "On My Mac" in the previous Panther version of Mail), the mail message will be removed from the Apple server the next time your Mac syncs with .Mac but it won't be removed from your Mac. It took me a while to recognize what was going on, but this really makes sense if you think of your inbox as just a general inbox where mail messages are stored until you file them. It really is sloppy to just leave things in your inbox. Things should be filed in an organized way. Your .Mac account (Apple server) stays in sync with your inbox, but once you move something out of your inbox and into a custom folder, your .Mac account sees it as gone from your inbox and therefore it will remove it from the server in order to stay in sync.

Cannot send attachments in Mail using .mac account, pop account is fine!

Within my Mail.app, I have 2 accounts: one is a .mac account, the other a pop account.
When I send attachments (jpg always and sometimes pdf) with the .mac account, they do not get encoded properly and my recipients cannot view them -- or they can view, say, 10% of the photo.
When I send the same attachments with the pop account, and within the same Mail.app, I do NOT have this problem.
Furthermore, if I send the attachment from my .mac webmail, I do NOT have the problem.
Does Mail.app have a problem with attachments sent via IMAP accounts?
I have tried Repairing Permissions, deleting the outbox.mbx (and emptying the trash).
Does anyone have any other suggestions? This is driving me crazy.
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Hello Neil.
Does Mail.app have a problem with attachments sent via IMAP accounts?
None that I'm aware of.
The Mail.app uses MIME 1.0 for message/attachment encoding (which is the internet standard) for all email accounts.
Is your POP account and the SMTP server used for the account provided by your ISP used for connecting to the internet?
If so, try selecting/using your ISP's SMTP server (the same SMTP server used to send mail via your ISP's POP account) to send mail via your .Mac account as a test.

Forwarding E-mail to .mac account

Is there a limit on how many e-mail address you can forward to your .mac account? I have about 10 and I am having trouble with receiveing my mail.
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Do you want to access your AOL email account with the Mail.app or forward your AOL email to your .Mac account?
Via your .Mac account preferences, you can check another email account that is a POP type account which will deposit received messages for the POP type account in your .Mac account's Inbox mailbox but this cannot be done with an IMAP type account.
And I don't believe you can forward messages from an AOL email account to another email account via AOL account prefereces.
If you want to access your AOL email account with the Mail.app, check this link.
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/

Can't send mail to .Mac accounts

I saw this problem posted before but the answer didn't solve it for me. I don't have a .Mac account but I use pop mail for my email from my web-based email. Every time I send to a [email protected] address, I get the following message from "Mail Delivery Subsystem" (charles is an example @mac.com address)
The original message was received at Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:46:33 -0700 (PDT)
from smtpout09-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.17]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[email protected]>
(reason: 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected])
(expanded from: <[email protected]>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to smtp-bounce.mac.com.:
DATA
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>... User unknown
<<< 554 5.5.0 No recipients have been specified.
Reporting-MTA: dns; mac.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; smtpout09-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net
Arrival-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:46:33 -0700 (PDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; smtp-bounce.mac.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:46:35 -0700 (PDT)

This is only a guess, as there is no host "smtp-bounce.mac.com": your mailserver smtpout09-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net is currently listed at least at one blacklist service (take a look here http://tqmcube.com/cgi-bin/rbltqm?ip=64.202.165.17 to verify) as a spammer.
I am not sure about the technology Apple uses to prevent SPAM, but it technically would be possible to check for listed servers before establishing a connection and saying "HELO" with a faked hostname (smtp-bounce.mac.com in that case) and bouncing all mail.
The second possibility is, of course, that the given error "User unknown" is correct, and the user imply does not exist.
Try figuring this out by sending mail to .Mac users using an alternative mail provider or SMTP-server.

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Mac mail is driving me crazy. I tried to send myself attachment email from hotmail to my gmail and yahoo mail. When i opened mac mail, i could see the attachment in gmail but not Yahoo! mail. Why? Is there any solution to fix this world biggest problem that i am having at the moment?

That is one of the many reasons Apple is just a tour system with little practical use I today's buss world and data. To do a basic function you have to buy adult apps.

Trouble sending mail with .Mac account

I used to have a .Mac account, and the spam had gotten so bad that I had to cancel it. I started a new trial membership with a new .Mac address so that I could get a new account name. Now when I send an email using Mail, it tries initially to send the email using the old .Mac address, which obviously doesn't work. When I got to the outbox and open the unsent message and then click "send" the message sends without a problem.
The old .Mac account isn't even entered in Mail anymore, so I have no idea what the problem is. I've tried deleting and adding my new account, but still get the same problems.

Mail keeps information about outgoing servers in a separate list, independently of any specific mail account. The account settings just associate one of the available outgoing servers with each account. Deleting an account doesn’t remove the outgoing server from the list. Orphaned or dangling outgoing server entries (i.e. not associated with any account) sometimes cause weird sending problems.
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Mail and .mac account

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Can someone tell me if I am right in thinking that isync will keep mail on my PBP and mail on my .mac account both updated each time I use either of them? Any tips to keep this happening smoothly?
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It's not quite like that:
A .Mac account is Apple's name for an IMAP account. With these account types, all items that you don't deliberately remove from the server In Box will stay there. (You can choose for all your sent mail you be added to the server Sent box by selecting 'Store sent messages on the server" in the Mailbox Behaviours tab. There's also an option for Drafts, Junk and Trash.)
When your mail data is stored on the server, you can view it from your laptop or online or from any other computer that has your username and password. (If you think of these being windows on the server mailboxes it might be clearer.)
Occasionally, you will have to weed-out messages by moving them off the server and on to your local computer (at which point that's the only place that you can see them), simply because of the amount of space allocated for storage - but you will get a warning to do so.
dot Mac syncing will sync details of your mail accounts between computers, together with associated rules if you choose these options. However, it does not copy any actual emails.
I have received, sent and drafts stored on the server, so I can pack-up at work go home and have all in both places.
Ask away if you have any further questions.

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