On 12/12/2006, at 12:22 PM, J Philippe Chaperon wrote:

PPS I just heard from Westnet who are having no problem with accessing the .mac site. As far as they know, other customers of theirs having a .mac
account are encoutering no problem at all. So its something here on my
machine or possibly modem which may be the cause. Will keep looking.

Hi Philippe,

Check you Mail settings for your .mac account.

Mail > Preferences > Accounts:  - .Mac Under 'Account Information'
Incoming Mail Server:  mail.mac.com
Outgoing Mail Server SMTP) - mail.westnet.com.au

Server Settings:  mail.westnet.com.au
Server Port:   25
NO TICK in 'Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

Under 'Advanced'
Port 143
Authentication: Password

Cheers,
Ronni