What happened when you forced sending on Port 25? By “Use Custom Port” 25 (which is the Port Westnet uses to send mail)
On 21/10/2011, at 4:42 PM, McCallum Malcolm wrote: > Absolutely nothing appears to happen when I try to send Mail. When I > look in connection Doctor it Triumphantly tells me all is connected. :-( > > On 21/10/2011, at 2:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> OK Mac, >> >> Yeah, I don’t take kindly to being shouted at, especially when I’m >> doing Clients work at the same time as helping out on WAMUG Mailing >> list. >> >> Instead of using the Default Ports ( ‘Advanced’ - ‘Use Default >> Ports (25,465,587). >> Edit the SMTP Sever List and select 'Use Custom Port” and put in 25 >> >> Quit Mail, >> Restart Mail and see if you can send mail. >> >> What message are you receiving when you can’t send? >> Have you looked at ‘Connection Doctor’ to see where the problem lies? >> Window > Connection Doctor’. >> >> I take it you have repaired permissions and checked Keychain etc >> after the install. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> On 21/10/2011, at 1:58 PM, McCallum Malcolm wrote: >> >>> I HAVE DONE ALL THAT sorry for shouting ;-( and still not working. I >>> am waiting for peter to come back from gadding about the world eating >>> all the food I would like to eat and will do an install of lion on a >>> fresh HD Thank you for your help . Every thing that can possibly go >>> wrong over last weeks has done so except the asteroid does not seem >>> to have landed in Woodlands which we are thankful for :-) >>> >>> Mac >>> On 21/10/2011, at 12:01 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 21/10/2011, at 11:39 AM, McCallum Malcolm wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have just done an install of MAC X 10.6 on My Macbook Pro 2.53 >>>>> GHz >>>>> intel core2 Duo and I have a problem :-(. It receives mail OK >>>>> but it >>>>> does not send. I have carefully checked all the account settings >>>>> and >>>>> they are the same as >>>>> a working macbook which is what I am sending this email on. I can >>>>> access the internet on Safari and Firefox . Can anyone make any >>>>> suggestions immoral or otherwise please. >>>> >>>> Hi Mac, >>>> >>>> I would never give you immoral suggestions ;-) >>>> >>>> Are you sure all the settings are the same on your Mac? >>>> >>>> Check: >>>> Mail > Preferences > Accounts, select your 'Westnet POP Account' >>>> Select ‘Account Information’ >>>> Then Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) mail.westnet.com.au, click the >>>> arrows and scroll to ‘Edit SMTP Server List’ >>>> Then select ‘Advanced’ make sure ‘Use Default Ports (25,465,587) is >>>> selected that ‘Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is NOT selected. >>>> Authentication: None >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Ronni >>>> >>>> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >>>> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >>>> >>>> OS X 10.7.2 Lion >>>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
