mail suddenly stopped working with smtp server on one Mac
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From: David Rogoff on 30 Mar 2010 16:41 On 2010-03-29 21:39:15 -0700, David Rogoff said: > On 2010-03-29 21:01:17 -0700, isw said: > >> In article <4bb1706e$0$19292$c36e2926(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, >> David Rogoff <david(a)therogoffs.com> wrote: >> >>> Help! I've got two new Macs - a Mini I use and my wife's Macbook. >>> Everything was working fine for a couple of months and then, suddenly, >>> we can't send mail from her Macbook. It says that the ID was rejected >>> by the smtp server (smtp.west.cox.net). I don't know what's going on. >>> It still works fine, with the same settings, on my Mac. I tried my >>> account on her Mac and that didn't work either. When I ran the >>> connection doctor it all passed. >>> >>> What's going on? >> >> Your ISP has likely changed the port number for SMTP. Contact them to >> find out what they did. You may now need a password to send mail when >> you didn't previously. >> > > Thanks for the reply, but that's not it. I guess I wasn't clear: if I > use the exact same setting on my Mac, it works fine. I fixed the problem by reverting to an earlier version of com.apple.mail.plist. When I have some time, I'll try and diff the old and broken versions of the files to see what got messed up. All the smtp settings looked identical in mail's preferences. |