Hi, Esther,
I'm still fighting the mail battle with my newly acquired Mac
mini. In your post below, I can get through step 4, but in step 5
can't figure out how to navigate to the settings of port and so
on. It's user ignorance, of course. Can you rescue me???
Thanks for all the help.
Ann
At 08:02 PM 2/19/2012, you wrote:
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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