Pete, Check if your main email provider has recently changed its settings.
It happened to me with AT&T (I could send but not receive), and I had to change a couple values before Mail could continue downloading my messages. They even had a dedicated page for Mail under OS X, with the precise instructions on how to do it. I don't know what your case is, if your main email account is with your ISP or not, but it's worth a try one way or the other. Hope it helps. Felix On Oct 21, 6:50 pm, Nevett <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope you can help me here. > > I have an iBook G4, 1.33 GHz, 768 MB running OS X 10.4.11. > > My email program, Mail 2.1.3, sometimes refuses to receive incoming mail. > At the moment the situation is: > > There is a warning triangle next to the Inbox which, when I double click on > it, gives me the error message > "Connection failed ... error encountered: Connection to the server "...." on > port 0 has timed out". > If I click Get Mail I get the usual rotating line but the warning triangle > is still there and no mail is received, neither is there an error message. > I can send mail without a problem. > I have verified the Keychain, it says there is no problem. > I have reset all of the Mail preferences to previous values (I had written > them down) but I still cannot receive mail. > > Fortunately I can access my mail through a cumbersome internet email > program, so if anyone send help, I can read it! > > Thanks again, > > Pete Nevett --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
