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From: William Clark on 12 Feb 2010 14:06 In article <1jdslcn.im3ge0a91tkwN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > William Clark <wclark2(a)colnospamumbus.rr.com> wrote: > > > Actually, I am. I'm just not a psychic, which I needed to be in this > > case. > > No, you simply needed to ask the people in charge of your mail servers > what settings are required to connect to those specific servers. > > What you seem to want is for the programmers at Apple to be psychic. Agreed, but not really feasible when I am 400 miles away from them, and neither provider answers phones.
From: William Clark on 12 Feb 2010 14:15 In article <1jdsl36.eik5tk1rmmqc4N%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > William Clark <wclark2(a)colnospamumbus.rr.com> wrote: > > > > The Mail help section on adding accounts leads you to > > > <https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1277> which would have aided you in > > > obtaining the proper configuration. > > > > Well, it didn't, because I could not find anything that referred to > > anything prior to 10.5. > > Before you responde, did you even look at the page Tom provided? > Apparently not, because it says: > > "Products Affected > Mail, Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.2, Mac OS X 10.1, Mac OS > X 10.5, Mac OS X 10.6, iPhone" > > "Are you having issues sending, receiving, or configuring Mail? If so, > ask your Internet service provider (or email provider if it's different > than your ISP) the following questions to verify that your account is > set up correctly in Mail. You can print (or copy and paste to a text > document) and keep this "cheat sheet" to record your email provider's > settings for future reference. This sheet can make it easier for you > when configuring Mail in Mac OS X or on iPhone or iPod touch, or when > contacting your provider." > > It then provides a table with all the server settings one needs to know > from their mail hosting provider to configure _any_ mail client. That would have helped, but I didn't get pointed to that from the program, only to the page set for 10.5 only. The other problem is that the intermediate provider at the hotel was AT&T, my home ISPs are a university one and RoadRunner. If you have ever tried dealing with AT&T from a hotel, then you can understand the level of frustration. I spent well over two hours just trying to get to talk to someone there who had a clue about Mail.
From: William Clark on 12 Feb 2010 14:19 In article <1jdqqrb.1ok8n5qrlfjpcN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > William Clark <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > > > Indeed, but that is really not an excuse for not having done it with the > > Tiger version. > > Let's see now. They come out with a new product, Leopard, with a lot of > new features. In addition to the obvious ones like Time Machine and > Spaces, there are some big changes in Mail, including stationery and the > previously mentioned improvements in setting up accounts. > > You choose not to buy the new product but you want the new features > anyway? Hey, just be glad they kept upgrading your Safari. I am more than ready to upgrade, but all my research apps are not as yet. All I was asking for was a decent help file! Oh, and I have given up on Safari - I don't have all day to wait for it to load, and Firefox is so much faster to do that.
From: Mike Rosenberg on 12 Feb 2010 17:12 William Clark <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > Agreed, but not really feasible when I am 400 miles away from them, and > neither provider answers phones. Tom Stiller found that page at Apple's support site. I just Googled and quickly found AT&T's mail server settings. -- My latest dance performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9pudbFisE> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi>
From: dorayme on 12 Feb 2010 18:28
In article <clark-4B28C5.14190912022010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, William Clark <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > Oh, and I have given up on Safari - I don't have all day to wait for it > to load, and Firefox is so much faster to do that. My Firefox (3.5.7) takes ages compared to my Safari 3.1.2 to launch. Perhaps you are meaning to load websites. -- dorayme |