Snow Leopard install: now MobileMe and Hotmail no longer working
Hi everyone,
I'm having issues emailing since upgrading to Snow Leopard last friday.
I have 5 different email addresses, of which two are still working and three stopped working in Mail:
* MobileMe account (stopped working)
* 2 Hotmail accounts (stopped working)
* Gmail account (still working)
* XS4ALL webmail account (still working)
I've chatted with MobileMe support for quite some time and have tried the following, all to no avail:
* taking the accounts offline/online manually
* deleting the accounts from Mail and add new ones (with and without using SSL)
* using LAN instead of wifi
* using a few of my neighbors' unsecured wifi connections
* changing ports
* repairing disk permissions
* creating new user account on MBP and then create mail account
* the support agent even created a new MobileMe account
* installing mozilla thunderbird
Basically, when i try to send emails from my MobileMe account or my hotmail accounts, OR when setting up a new account (either using Mail or Thunderbird), i get the message:
"cannot send message using the server [email protected]". If i continue the set up it says it was unable to connect to the smtp server.
Furthermore, something struck me after having deleted my MobileMe account and my two hotmail accounts from Mail. When i quit and relaunched Mail, an email that was in my outbox popped up saying it could not be sent because it couldn't connect to the smtp server, and asked me to manually select another server from a list. In that list the MobileMe account and the two hotmail accounts were still there! After having deleted them..
After all this, MobileMe support thought it was a Mail issue and said i would need to contact the OS X Mail support team. Haven't gotten around to that yet. However, since i get the exact problem in Thunderbird as in Mail, happening right after upgrading to SnowLeopard, I'm kinda thinking it's the OS itself.
Anyone any suggestions? I hope to not have to spend another evening w/ Apple support (however friendly they always are).
Thanks!
Tjade
I cannot set up my hotmail account. Keeps giving me this error:
"The Hotmail POP server “pop3.live.com” is not responding. Try checking the network connection, and that the server name is correct. Otherwise, the server might be temporarily unavailable. If you continue, you might not be able to receive messages.
Can't say it worked or not before the upgrade to Snow Leopard cause I didn't try to set it up prior.
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