On Thu, Jun 10, 2010, Rene Merz <r.m...@telquel.net> wrote: >Thomas Miller wrote: > >>When I start up from my SuperDuper HD clone from Saturday when >>everything was working fine, the same problem exists. Oddly, my wife is >>having the same problem using an old version of Mail (2.1.3) on Tiger on >>her old iMac lamp. >> >>Therefore, the problem must be with mac/me.com. I've posted the >>question to Apple Discussions, but no replies. Could it be some problem >>caused by my ISP, Verizon? > >Yes, that could be! >I had a similar problem recently with my ISP (Swisscom) for my gmx-accounts. >It could be that the don't accept anymore the port you used until now >for your .mac-accounts (reason: avoiding SPAM). >What is your port number now? >And consult the newest security information of your ISP about account >installation on a mail client. > >>BTW, when Waiting messages are deleted, PM shows "-4 waiting." It still >>wants to send those messages I deleted. Argh!!!! > > > >
Verizon has been rolling out blocking of port 25 in various areas. I got it about a month ago. My config for .mac is ... authenticate as user <your .mac ID> password <your password> use secure connection use port 587 Using the STARTTLS command ... and this works through Verizon (FiOS)
