if the "check first to authenticate and then get mail" is getting old for you, you can add a setting in your account information which will then authenticate automatically when sending. For this to happen go to the menubar - setup - account settings - select the email account - select the SENDING tab - enable the AUTHENTICATE AS USER checkbox - enter your user name and password. This now will send this data each time when you send email.
If you look at the RECEIVING tab you will see that you have your user name and password in there and that is what is being sent to the server when you check email and that is how the server knows it's you checking your account. Usually when you check your email the server will have a time window open after authenticating and for this reason it appears that you first have to check email before you can send. Entering your authentication data into the sending tab will solve this. In regards to the @ in usernames - no, PowerMail has no problem with that. I also check regulary my Gmail account and other accounts which use the @ in the address without difficulties. The password requested is the password you use to get email from Gmail. My Gmail account setup looks as follows: IDENTITY tab : email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] real name : Marlyse Comte SAVE passwords in Mac OS key chain ENABLED RECEIVING tab: protocol ; POP3 ID : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Incoming mail server : pop.gmail.com SAVE password ENABLED and my email password USE secure connection ENABLED on PORT 995 ENABLED On a dedicated secure port SELECTED SENDING tab: Outgoing SMTP server : smtp.gmail.com AUTHENTICATE as user ENABLED (again, my gmail email address) PASSWORD : same as above USE secure connecton SSL/TLS on PORT 465 is again ENABLED On a dedicated secure port SELECTED Please NOTE : INCOMING PORT is 995 (for checking email) OUTGOING PORT is 465 (for sending email) That might be your problem right there. Good luck and let us know if it worked! ---marlyse ------------ former message(s) quotes: ------------- >This is probably a basic question for most of you... >I have one mail server from which I receive mail into PowerMail. >Well, my ISP is a second one, but I don't use it except to receive my >monthly bill statement. >My e-mail server recently changed from whatever it was using before to >using gmail. Now I cannot access my mail from PowerMail. >I followed the directions I was given for POP access as well as I could, >but it just keeps "Connecting to pop.gmail.com" and never does. >The error message is >Unexpected error on "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:995" >Class='NetC', what=9,when=6 >The administrator/tech person of my rscj.org email downloaded PowerMail >and can't figure it out, either. He wrote that maybe PowerMail won't >allow the @ in the username. >Is the "Save password" just the password I use for my e-mail? >Or is it something else that I have to get from him, as it seems to say >in the Manual? >Does someone know what I need to do differently from the directions they >supplied for Thunderbird, Eudora, and Outlook? > >I know there's not a problem with my ISP since I can still send mail >through it and it will only allow that if I have checked mail first and >it verifies that my account is legitimate. >Thanks for anything you can suggest. >Shell >iBook G3 OS X 10.4.7 >PM 5.2.3 > > >
