OK guys....MY turn for help! Suddenly I can't send email from apple mail. This started I think last Wednesday or Thursday. After messing around with changing the smtp servers and ports/ssl and still not having it work, I tried adding in my gmail and mobile me accounts.
NONE of them will allow me to send mail! I'm hoping there's some really simple step I'm missing (??) help!
Those are the port #'s I have setup for the gmail account, with the exception of "TLS" -- don't see that as an option for apple mail.
I mainly have only used the mac for my "main" email, the AOHell account I've had forever. Only today did I attempt to add in the gmail, and me accounts....neither of which work.
The error varies a little depending on which email account, but basically it's saying "could not connect to this smtp server - check network connection and that info entered is correct - verify SSL is supported an uncheck if not.
I'm at a loss. Can't think of what to try next. Thanks for your help tho!
Is that online (where I sign in to gmail) Or in apple mail?
Short answer is NO, I don't think I've ever seen the gmail setup wizard. And honestly, I don't even care if the gmail works in the apple mail cause I don't use it much (although maybe that will change)...just trying to get the AOL working, and grasping at straws.
put in your name )of course), your aol email address and your aol password. then hit continue twice when it asks about a secured password. Your mail should show up, and you should be able to send.
Dunno. I'd try creating a new account with the same login. Not sure if it will let you though. But that mail should all be on the server. Test it first though.
I had a problem once and thought everything was right. Turned out I used a comma intead of a period on one of the smtp settings. Check them very carefully for errors.
My laptop got hit with a new scareware that simulates hard drive failure. My son is working on it. Got as far as finding the files this malware hid but he is thinking I should get a professional to back every thing up, and finish making sure the malware is eliminated. Looking for recommendations for where to take it. Thanks.
We have used General Nanosystems, Eags. They have done good work for us in the past and are reasonable for price. They are up on University just west of the St. Paul/Minneapolis border.
Ouch.. sounds like a rootkit virus possibly? Nasty buggers, very hard to get rid of. Most professionals would suggest if your system is compromised by a virus, the only way to ever know for sure that it's gone is to wipe the hard drive and start over (but usually you can copy off your data first, just scan it with a good antivirus program before using it on the new system).
Sure you can spend hours fixing files and whatnot. I've done that once on someone's system at work, only to have them contract the same virus 2 weeks later (I'm assuming even with all of my work, I must have missed something).
Question, probably for Ares, but anyone else chime in too, Has anyone installed a Solid State Drive in their computer? I got one, but ran into some issues. Which is good, because I got it to learn on before these drives start going mainstream.
The issue I seem to have is running the manufacturer's recovery disc to set up the OS on the drive. It acts like it's writing, but once the system reboots, the drive doesn't boot. I'll boot up off the mechanical and check the drive and it shows the partition on the SSD is unallocated space.
I might try to get a windows home premium 64 bit OEM disc and install windows on it's own to see if that will do the trick.
Actually, I had some progress tonight. I guess my initial fear of the drive being bad was wrong. It must have been the recovery software. I guess that's understandable. It took 3 full DVDs to write the recovery discs, trying to fit them all back on a 60GB drive while repartitioning to allow 20GBs for a backup partition might have been too much.
I did flash the firmware on it to the most recent, updated the system and video bios. I found a great support site for the laptop, right under my nose at the manufacturer's site. Since it's a gaming laptop, there's a pretty good group of enthusiasts. I still have a few gigs of data to download from their site to get everything up to snuff. But once it's all done, it should be much faster and less prone to crashing (mostly from the video card issues causing lockups).
I only wish I had dropped the extra 300 initially to get a blue ray drive and a higher resolution monitor, which I'm unable to upgrade.
I'm still a little leery about SSDs, as they have a definite life span. Hence why I'm only using the drive for the OS and main programs, keeping the mechanical for data storage. I'm hoping to find some good imaging program to keep a backup of the OS so if I lose the SSD, I can just reimage to another drive. Unfortunately, Ghost doesn't support windows 7 properly yet.
it works if the drives have the exact same block count. not sure how well it works if they don't. you might have to go down to the partition level for that.
I just saw the box (above) to embed a YouTube video, so I went to "Kids and Pets" to share a video of my grandson Heath dancing and now when I go to that page it flips me straight out to YouTube? Don't know what I did? Does it work for you guys? I can't even open the page, it goes directly to YouTube?
Trying to set up a wifi repeater on the cheap side. I'm going to leech off my parent's internet for a while at my new house (assuming financing goes well). So far, no connection on the test. But I have time to play with it yet.
How should I set my Facebook security settings, etc?
My account was being compromised this evening. My posts were disappearing. I was able to see that someone from New York and from Nebraska had some kind of activity. I ended their sessions and changed my password. What else do I need to do to further secure things?
Anyone here (ares?) ever ported a land line to a cell phone/voip/skype/google voice service?
I'm thinking of saving my Grandmother's landline number, I've remembered that number since when I was old enough to count, and since it has been in service so long, it seems a shame to let it go back into the phone number pool and get reused by someone else. I'm assuming people will be calling it for a while, so I don't want to use it now as my primary number, most likely just go to a general voicemail box, and whatever I choose to do with it in the future, I'd at least have the number to use.
Ok, I finished the port of my grandmother's phone number to a magic jack. Paid 20 bucks for the hardware on clearance at target (normally it's 40 bucks) that includes a year of service. I then paid another 20 to magicjack to have the number ported. So 40 bucks for a year saves the number, 30 bucks a year after that. I might try and port it to google voice at some point, which would then make it free, but really, 30 bucks for a year of phone service isn't bad.
The scary part was all I had to do when setting up the magicjack service was type in the number i wanted to port, they did some quick check and said the number was portable (possibly easier because my grandmother had switched to comcast triple play and they had ported it already from the telephone company?), then directed me to pay the 20 bucks. Today I got confirmation that the port went through.
Now, when I signed up for the service, I used my physical address, my name, and my credit card information. My grandmother's number was registered at her address, under her name (which was even a different last name). As far as I can tell, they didn't hear anything on their end (my uncle is taking care of my grandmother's things) like magic jack confirming with them that they were ok with the number port.
If this is the case, I could theoretically grab ANY number that was portable, and the other party wouldn't be aware of it until after the number ported. Scary proposition indeed.....
got the phone on Thursday and have well over 2k texts already! go figer!!!
NONE of them will allow me to send mail! I'm hoping there's some really simple step I'm missing (??) help!
the outgoing server needs authentication (same as incoming server)
SSL IMAP on port 993, and TLS SMTP on port 587.
i'm kinda shooting blind since I only use gmail through outlook, my phone, and the web interface and not on my mac.
what kind of error are you getting?
I mainly have only used the mac for my "main" email, the AOHell account I've had forever. Only today did I attempt to add in the gmail, and me accounts....neither of which work.
The error varies a little depending on which email account, but basically it's saying "could not connect to this smtp server - check network connection and that info entered is correct - verify SSL is supported an uncheck if not.
I'm at a loss. Can't think of what to try next. Thanks for your help tho!
Short answer is NO, I don't think I've ever seen the gmail setup wizard. And honestly, I don't even care if the gmail works in the apple mail cause I don't use it much (although maybe that will change)...just trying to get the AOL working, and grasping at straws.
put in your name )of course), your aol email address and your aol password. then hit continue twice when it asks about a secured password. Your mail should show up, and you should be able to send.
Sure you can spend hours fixing files and whatnot. I've done that once on someone's system at work, only to have them contract the same virus 2 weeks later (I'm assuming even with all of my work, I must have missed something).
The issue I seem to have is running the manufacturer's recovery disc to set up the OS on the drive. It acts like it's writing, but once the system reboots, the drive doesn't boot. I'll boot up off the mechanical and check the drive and it shows the partition on the SSD is unallocated space.
I might try to get a windows home premium 64 bit OEM disc and install windows on it's own to see if that will do the trick.
I did flash the firmware on it to the most recent, updated the system and video bios. I found a great support site for the laptop, right under my nose at the manufacturer's site. Since it's a gaming laptop, there's a pretty good group of enthusiasts. I still have a few gigs of data to download from their site to get everything up to snuff. But once it's all done, it should be much faster and less prone to crashing (mostly from the video card issues causing lockups).
I only wish I had dropped the extra 300 initially to get a blue ray drive and a higher resolution monitor, which I'm unable to upgrade.
I'm still a little leery about SSDs, as they have a definite life span. Hence why I'm only using the drive for the OS and main programs, keeping the mechanical for data storage. I'm hoping to find some good imaging program to keep a backup of the OS so if I lose the SSD, I can just reimage to another drive. Unfortunately, Ghost doesn't support windows 7 properly yet.
The directions to embed are: (Only Add the ID for example in http://www.youtube.com/embed/1rFvR7Bv9Fk 1rFvR7Bv9Fk is the ID)
If you put the whole thing in, it messes up the page and takes you to YouTube.
I tried deleting it so you could try again, but I couldn't get that done before going to YouTube. When all else fails, contact the sysop. :smile:
Guess I missed out :frown: oh well.
I'm beginning to wonder if I need a degree in network engineering to set this up. Gonna be really bored at my new place if I can't get any internet...
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My account was being compromised this evening. My posts were disappearing. I was able to see that someone from New York and from Nebraska had some kind of activity. I ended their sessions and changed my password. What else do I need to do to further secure things?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
I'm thinking of saving my Grandmother's landline number, I've remembered that number since when I was old enough to count, and since it has been in service so long, it seems a shame to let it go back into the phone number pool and get reused by someone else. I'm assuming people will be calling it for a while, so I don't want to use it now as my primary number, most likely just go to a general voicemail box, and whatever I choose to do with it in the future, I'd at least have the number to use.
The scary part was all I had to do when setting up the magicjack service was type in the number i wanted to port, they did some quick check and said the number was portable (possibly easier because my grandmother had switched to comcast triple play and they had ported it already from the telephone company?), then directed me to pay the 20 bucks. Today I got confirmation that the port went through.
Now, when I signed up for the service, I used my physical address, my name, and my credit card information. My grandmother's number was registered at her address, under her name (which was even a different last name). As far as I can tell, they didn't hear anything on their end (my uncle is taking care of my grandmother's things) like magic jack confirming with them that they were ok with the number port.
If this is the case, I could theoretically grab ANY number that was portable, and the other party wouldn't be aware of it until after the number ported. Scary proposition indeed.....