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Countryman - 01 Feb 2008 21:06 GMT

I am a mac user and have a dot mac account and email address. At work I use
windows and want to be able to manipulate my mail on my windows PC. I have
tried to set my mac account (imap) up in Windows mail app and also Pegasus
Mail but I cannot get the SMTP side of things to work. I am using Port 587,
server requires authentication and SSL but I cannot send mail - it always
seem to fail authentication. My log in name is my mac mail address and my
password is the same as I use on my mac.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

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Lewis - 01 Feb 2008 21:28 GMT

> I am using Port 587, server requires authentication and SSL but I cannot send mail - it always seem to fail authentication.

Does your work block port 587?

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Countryman - 01 Feb 2008 21:34 GMT

>> I am using Port 587, server requires authentication and SSL but I cannot
>> send mail - it always seem to fail authentication.
>
> Does your work block port 587?

I should have mentioned, I work mostly from home on my Windows laptop that
uses the same wireless router/network as my mac.

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Shawn Hirn - 02 Feb 2008 03:38 GMT

> >> I am using Port 587, server requires authentication and SSL but I cannot
> >> send mail - it always seem to fail authentication.
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> I should have mentioned, I work mostly from home on my Windows laptop that
> uses the same wireless router/network as my mac.

Open a command window and see what happens when you type

telnet smtp.mac.com 587

I assume smtp.mac.com is the right host name for .mac's smtp server, but
check on that first.

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