Hello Anne,

I'm not sure how your mail port settings should be configured, but you can get 
to this information through your Mail preferences settings.  

1. From Mail, type Command-Comma to bring up your preferences menu
2. Navigate to the "Accounts" button on your title bar and press it. A quick 
way to do this is to use Control-F5 to move to the toolbar then tab to the 
"Accounts" button and press with VO-Space, then tab past the last button to 
where you here "Accounts, table"
3. Interact with the table to select the account you want to work with then 
stop interacting with the table
4. Navigate (VO-RIght arrow) to the "Advanced" tab (3 of 3), and select it 
(VO-Space).  These are the advanced settings for the account that you selected, 
whose basic information was specified on the "Account information" tab (1 of 3).
5. Navigate to the advanced options that include text boxes for items such as 
IMPA Path Prefix and Port number, and make any necessary changes.
6. Close the Preferences window with Command-W when done.

One of the very useful guides in the "Take Control" series of ebooks put out by 
TidBITS is the one dealing with Apple Mail.  The last available version is 
"Take Control of Apple in Snow Leopard" and there is not yet an update for 
Lion.  I'd wait for the new version to appear, then take advantage of the 
special 80 per cent discount that members of this list have for purchasing the 
Take Control guides.  To read more about this, check the "Breaking News!" link 
at the main mac-access.net web page:
http://www.mac-access.net/
These guides have all sorts of information that I haven't found as easily in 
other places.  At typical prices to list members of $2 to $3 per guide, and 
with permanent access to the latest revisions and updates for download in PDF, 
ePub, etc. formats, I think these are well worth if if you need more extensive 
information on one of these subjects than you can get from questions on the 
list.  

HTH.  Cheers,

Esther

On Feb 19, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Ann Byrne wrote:

> On my new/used Mac mini, I can receive mail, but can't send it.  I think the 
> problem is with the ports.  In mail, under accounts, advanced, I can't find 
> the place to change the port settings.  I found it once, and it said 25, 465, 
> 5, 7, radio button, 1 of 2.  the second was a custom, and I guess that's what 
> I needed, because instead of 25 it should be 995.  But I wanted to double 
> check.  And I have *never, not once, been able to get back to that dialog.
> 
> Can someone tell me please how to get there???  Or am I barking up the wrong 
> mailbox?
> 
> thanks much,
> 
> Ann
> 

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