Trouble with all outgoing mail servers

Was there an update that would have knocked out my ability to send outgoing mail? I can still receive mail from gmail.com, live.com and a business email account that had all been working fine till about a week ago. I had not made any changes, but have since changed the outgoing port to 587, to no avail. I have also tried to Repair Disk Permissions using the Disk Utility. However, I still am not able to get the smtp servers to connect.
Any ideas?

I have cleared my outbox and resent a test email from one account to the other, which I know is receiving emails. I am using the Apple Mail application, which had been working just fine with all 3 accounts for the past 2 years.

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A few days ago there was some trouble with Apple mail, and after that all my outgoing mail servers were gone, so I cannot send mail. (Receiving mail still goes fine.) Frustrating, because I don't know how to restore these outgoing mail servers or what caused the problem. I try to restore to a point before the problem with Time Machine, and called Apple support but nothing worked. I found one other question on this problem, but without answers. Please help!

No, they told me (among other less relevant things) that they could only help me if I pay them or that I could post my question in Apple support communities.
I don't understand: the list of outgoing mail servers is just emty, and I remember that it took me many weeks and phone calls to get it right when I got this laptop a little over a year ago. What dit I do wrong, and why won't Time Machine set it right again?
Apple Support also suggested to do a OS X Recovery, but than I was warned that it would erase all data from my laptop HD, and although I have Time Machine backups, this seemed too risky for such a futile problem. Can you help me, or do I have to call those awful internet service providers again?

Anyone having trouble with Verizon outgoing?

I was having issues with both my .Mac and my Verizon outgoing servers. I thought perhaps this was just a bad connection on my end but for the past few days I have been able to receive emails from both accounts without problems. The errors always occured when trying to send an email. I looked on the Apple support page and found that I could change my port # from 25 to 587. Magically I was able to send email through my .Mac account again!! Woohoo!
I still however cannot connect to the outgoing mail server for Verizon. The idiots on the phone at Verizon told me its' an Apple issue so here I am looking for some help. Anyone have any suggestions about how to resolve my connection issue with the outgoing mail?
I have tried deleting the account, creating a new one, using connection doctor to check connections, repaired permissions, etc. I can't pinpoint it exactly but it also seems that this started happpening right near the release of 10.4.8. Hope they didn't break my email!!!
Thanks in advance.
Bob
P.S. - I triple checked all the settings and am satisfied that they are indeed correct and contain no errors.

I haven't been affected by any sending problems with any of my accounts and SMTP servers nor have I seen any other reports here about the same so it is doubtful the 10.4.8 update is to blame here.
Do you have any other SMTP servers available in Mail besides the .Mac and Verizon SMTP servers?

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I am using a MacBook Pro, with 4GB, and 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X Lion 10.7.5 and Mail App 5.3.
I can receive email on my 5 IMAP gmail accounts no problem. But for some reason 3 of the gmail accounts outgoing mail servers are "offline" so I cannot send mail out from those accounts. This happened just recently and only occurs on my MacBook. I am able to send messages out from those three accounts from my iPad and my iPhone so it seems to be a problem with the Mail app. How do I fix this?

Outgoing is SMTP settings.I would also run
EDIT SMTP SETTINGS
In Accounts window > Outgoing Mail Server SMTP: select to Edit SMTP Server list... from popup.
Select account in the list.(It's not uncommon to find extra SMTP servers listed. When you remove account, Mail does not delete the smtp info. You might need to do some clean up in the list to remove the extras.)
Under Advanced Tab:
Apple defaults to the default ports (25,465, 587) but some servers prefer a custom port. Check to see what port they recommend. Gmail for example likes 465, Outlook.com 587.
Verify if your server require SSL. (Gmail requires SSL)
User Name. Enter full email address eg. [email protected]
Add password if it is blank.(If you have two step authentication setup, you'll need to get an app specific password more info)
http://www.google.com/landing/2step/
Open Connection Doctor under Window in the Menu bar.
Do you see green light now for your account SMTP?
I would also run Keychain First Aid.
Open Keychain Access, located in Applications/Utilities
Choose Keychain Access > Keychain First Aid.
Enter your user name and password.
Select Repair and click Start.
If any problems are found run again to verify all repaired.

Why is mail erasing or resetting outgoing mail servers?

Yesterday morning, Mail had reset itself to have no outgoing mail servers. I manually reentered the outgoing mail server info, and Mail functioned properly until this morning. Today, Mail had reset the outgoin mail server onmy several email accounts to None--but it didn't "erase" the proper email servers' info. I've now manually changed the outgoing mail server for each of my email accounts, and Mail is functioning properly. I'd like to understand what's happenin and how to prevent the nuissance int he future. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Bill, I take it the Mac loses that info when logged out or restarted?
It sounds like your Main pref file is corrupted...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Trouble is it holds almost everything, not sure if you'd like to quit Mail trash that file & setup Mail all over again, or if it'd be better to try trashing it once Mail is up & running & have it attempt to rebuild that file from what is in memory.
Do you have any backups of that file?

Hi, i am having trouble with my mac mail account, i cannot send or receive any emails because of the server connection problems. Message says it could not be connected to SMTP server. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi, i am having trouble with my mac mail account, i cannot send or receive any emails because of the server connection problems. Message says it could not be connected to SMTP server. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello Sue,
I have an iPad 3, iPad Mini and iPhone 5S and they are all sluggish on capitalisation using shift keys. I hope that Apple will solve the problem because it is driving me crazy.
I find using a Microsoft Surface and Windows 8 phone, which I also have, work as well as all the ios devices before the ios 7 upgrade.
It has something to do with the length of time that you need to hold the shift key down. The shift key needs to be held longer than the letter key for the capitalisation to work. For some reason, this is a major change in the way we have learnt to touch type on computers. I am having to relearn how to type!
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How do I fix my iPod touch's problem with hotmail outgoing mail server?

I have just received a new replacement iPod touch 8Gb.
On my old model I used the house wifi network to connect to HOTMAIL in the mail app it would set the account up immediately and work perfectly.
This time, when I tried to set the account up I had a long delay while it verified account details. Then after opting to set up account without using SSL an account was generated with an error message to say I may not be able to send or receive mail.
Incoming mail is OK, outgoing is not working.
The error message told me that I needed to configure my outgoing mail server.
My default outgoing server is set to smtp.live.com and works on port 587.
I have an additional server set to 'on', which is also smtp.live.com working on port 465, which was set up when I tried to alter the port number on the default server. Still no outgoing mail.
Any suggestions?

Followed your instructions and again, account verification failed using SSL.
I chose to create without SSL and got the following message:
'The SMTP server 'smtp.live.com' is not responding'. I accepted the details,
the email Inbox populated, and everything looks normal.
Same error is occuring:
'Connection to outgoing server 'smtp.live.com' failed. Additional outgoing mail servers can be configured in settings>mail,contacts and calendars'
The settings are as follows:
Incoming mail server
Host Name: pop3.live.com
username: is correct
password: is correct
Outgoing SMTP:
Primary server
host name: smtp.live.com
username: is correct
password: is correct (has been re-entered just in case)
Use SSL: OFF
Authentication: password
server port 587
I have duplicate SMTP servers listed under 'Other SMTP servers' with exactly the same details as above so it seems as if the iPod is retaining some settings even after I delete account.
Also, I wonder if there is anything I need to get the network administrator to do, because he did ask for the Wi-Fi address of my previous iPod touch could it just be a case of allowing it as a specific device on our network?

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I would like to start adding a "disclaimer" or signature to the bottom of all outgoing mails
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Please note that the contents of this e-mail, including any
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Is there a way of configuring postfix to do this for me without corrupting the outgoing mail.

There is no easy and, most importantly, reliable way of doing this at the postfix level. Full stop!
If you need this to be done, you have to do it at the client level (mail.app, squirrelmail, outlook, etc.).
For the technically inclined: An e-mail written by a user on the mail client can be plain text, images only, html, contain attachments etc. Thus it is encoded (mime) and passed on to the MTA (postfix). To be able to add a footer at this stage, the MTA would have to decode the mail message, add a footer and re-encode the message. Besides the technical implications it will also be a performance hit on your mail server. Furthermore, chances are your mail will get messed up in the process.
Look at the source of an e-mail with let's say attachments in Mail.app (View-Message-Raw Source) and you will notice that except for the headers, what follows is mainly gibberish (that's the mime encoded bit).
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I had this same problem with both my imac and mac book pro using hotmail via mac mail with bt as my internet provider. Suddenly 4 months ago out of nowhere i could receive emails but could not send them. I scoured all the threads followed all the fixes none of them worked. However I just phoned apple support and fixed it in a matter of minutes. I am SO happy. This is what the technician advised me:
Go to your apple icon and scroll down to system preferences. Then dependant on what machine you have it is different for my imac and mac book pro click on either air port/wifi then the advanced tab in the bottom right hand corner. Then click on the DNS tab. Hit the + sign on the left hand side and type in 8.8.8.8 then hit the + sign again on the left hand side it will create a new line underneathe and type 8.8.4.4 then hit okay on the bottom right and then hit apply, again on the bottom right. Then send a test email to check but it should be fixed.
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Multiple outgoing mail servers

Please,
Does anybody know if it is possible to visualize/change outgoing mail server instead of using preferences/accounts settings?
It would be nice to choose one of the outgoing mail servers in the new message window.
Any suggestion of mail-add on tools to facilitate this operation is welcome.
Thanks in advance and sorry about my english.
LabZen

Hi David,
Unfortunately it is not what I am looking for. I would have the same work to do that: menu, run script, choose the server.
I am figuring out something like a toolbar icon or new message icon with an "outgoing server" dropping menu.
May be somebody know how to do that.
Thanks for replying.
LabZen

My outgoing mail servers aren't working

Most of my outgoing mail servers, including one of my iCloud accounts, are not working. This has been an ongoing problem, and as I've gotten the error message, I've just redirected the outgoing message to use a reliable outgoing server.
Now, however, I've gotten a new computer, and the "reliable" outgoing server won't work anymore.
I've gone to every ISP's website and copied the settings exactly, but I'm getting the same error message on both of my computers, that the message could not send using ______ server.
On some of the ISP's message boards, I've seen the same issue from many Mac Mail.app users, but no satisfactory answers. (Most people just say, "you must have copied the settings wrong" and have no back-up answers if this isn't really the problem.)
Any thoughts? I hate using webmail!
Thanks!

I forgot to mention, I think, that this problem exists in Mail.app.
I just downloaded and tried to use Thunderbird, and the problem doesn't exist there!
This may be a temporary solution, although I prefer the Mail.app UI, where I can see all of the messages from every inbox in the same window.

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All my email accounts got their outgoing mail server set to "none," and my smtp sever list is empty. How do I get them back? Help!
Mail still goes out from my iPad and iPhone.

No, they told me (among other less relevant things) that they could only help me if I pay them or that I could post my question in Apple support communities.
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Apple Support also suggested to do a OS X Recovery, but than I was warned that it would erase all data from my laptop HD, and although I have Time Machine backups, this seemed too risky for such a futile problem. Can you help me, or do I have to call those awful internet service providers again?

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I get mail okay, all other internet functions seem fine...
Using a Airport Extreme router...might that be blocking it?
Have tried a few different ports recommended on other discussions, but no luck so far...
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Two things that might help...(mine is working now)..
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Trouble with all outgoing mail servers

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