RE: aim acount on mail

2009-07-26 Thread Simon Fogarty
July 2009 3:22 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: aim acount on mail no, but I confused you :) that part is working fine. it's emails coming in that well, are not coming in. :) On Jul 25, 2009, at 4:17 PM, patrickneazer wrote: Hello Marie and all: This sounds like the evil

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread Marie Howarth
yes. I can send mail but receiving it is a problem. I've followed several steps online instructions, and the email is going to the account, I checked on the web. On Jul 25, 2009, at 3:29 PM, patrickneazer wrote: Hello Marie and all: Are you attempting to do this in apple mail? On Jul

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread patrickneazer
Hello Marie and all: Are you attempting to do this in apple mail? On Jul 25, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Marie Howarth wrote: has anyone set up an imap aim account with success? I can send emails, but it seems to not want to download from the server. am I missing something? Take good care and I

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread patrickneazer
Hello Marie and all: I do not believe I follow you. You are using apple mail and you can receive email. Am I correct so far? The trouble is that you are having difficulty receiving email? I lost you when you said you can see the mail on the web. Are you sending email somewhere else and then

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread Marie Howarth
OK, I confuse myself often lol. I can send from the aim account in the mail app. But when I've attempted to send an email from another account to test that the account is working, it doesn't show up in mail. I checked on the web based area for aim and all the tests I did are there. They are

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread Marie Howarth
no, but I confused you :) that part is working fine. it's emails coming in that well, are not coming in. :) On Jul 25, 2009, at 4:17 PM, patrickneazer wrote: Hello Marie and all: This sounds like the evil smtp server problem (grin). Of course the questions you have heard all before most

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are completely different protocols for sending versus receiving e-mail. I am not familiar with AIM mail but you need to determine if it uses the POP or IMAP or some other protocol to download messages. Sending is almost always done with SMTP For gmail you first have to enable

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread Simon Cavendish
Marie, Have you checked in the mailbox menu whether your account is online? If it is not, you won't receive any mail. I have made this mistake myself before. Best wishes Simon On 25 Jul 2009, at 15:32, Marie Howarth wrote: yes. I can send mail but receiving it is a problem. I've

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread Marie Howarth
thanks, going to look into the pop3. this imap thing is just not working. I got it online but it keeps saying mail busy if I try to move past the aim inbox. This wasn't happening when it was offline and still no messages. On Jul 25, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: Hello; If

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello; If this is for an aol mmail account, they now offer pop 3 access. That is how i get my aol mail. It was much easier to configure for sure. Hope that helps, Max On Jul 25, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Marie Howarth wrote: OK, I confuse myself often lol. I can send from the aim account in

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello; I try. Let me know how it turns out. good luck, Max On Jul 25, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: thanks, going to look into the pop3. this imap thing is just not working. I got it online but it keeps saying mail busy if I try to move past the aim inbox. This wasn't happening

Re: aim acount on mail

2009-07-25 Thread patrickneazer
Hello Marie and all: Well, if they are emails coming in then are you sure that the account is set to Imap as opposed to pop and both the address and ports are correct? This has probably already been answered and you are probably having a great time already with incoming mail (smile) On Jul