Can’t send nor receive e-mail in Mac Mail

Don’t you receive any e-mails to your computer? or you can’t you send anything? Go through the following steps to check the settings and if that does not help, try an alternative security type and port.

MacMail_Fel_11. Check your account settings

  1. Go to Mail > Settings > Account > Account information.
  2. Click Edit Server List.
  3. You can find Server Outgoing mail (SMTP)” at the bottom of the Account Information page.

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2. Delete any duplicate e-mail server

9-IMAP_Mac10.9-serverlistaIf it looks like the picture, you see a line that only has m.work2go.net and no e-mail afterwards. Then click on the row (no email address) so that it is highlighted, and then the (-) minus sign in the left corner to remove the line.

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3. Check the mail server ports

MacMail_Fel_2Outgoing server: Go to Advanced.

  • Use port 465 (or port 587).
  • Use SSL. (If continued problems try without SSL use port 2525.)
  • Fill in username and password again.
    (Test you login details by signing in on your avvount on www.work2go.net)

Click OK.

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MacMail_Fel_3Incoming server: Go to Advanced on top of the page.

  • Port: 993
  • Use SSL. (If continued problems try without SSL use port 143.)
  • Fill in username and password again.
    (Test you login details by signing in on your avvount on www.work2go.net)

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4. Try without SSL

Still not working?
Go through the same steps again but DO NOT use SSL.

  • Change to port 2525 on outgoing server
  • Change to port 143 on incoming server

 

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