It appears many Mail users are having authentication problems in which they are prompted for the username and password every time a message is sent (either manually ...

With many types of business email accounts, your computer connects to a machine called the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol server when you send messages. If you have difficulty sending messages, there ...

I work for an ISP and occasionally deal with customers who swear up and down that they need *our* outgoing email server to make email that we do not host or provide work. Example: Customer has ...

One of the little-known freebies Gmail offers is a portable SMTP server to send mail from any network for any email address. In your email client software, under Outgoing mail, set the SMTP server to ...

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Users have noted significant issues with ability to send and receive mail, as well as overall sluggish performance from Mail.app 2.0.2 -- the new release included with Mac OS X 10.4.2. Other issues ...

Outgoing mail for Microsoft email programs is automatically routed through the Microsoft Exchange Server. It is possible to change this server to something else and to stop outgoing email from using ...

For years, POP (Post Office Protocol) email has been a thorn in my side. Apple's email service uses the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) protocol for email, as do many other email services.