Steve W. Jackson a écrit:
> You should convert him to a Mac at all costs. :-)
I completely agree (having myself around 10 Macs, youngs and olds). He
just has nothing for buying a Mac (he's only 18 so he does not have
money); someone has given him a PC (those PC are so easy to give, so
hard to mainain) ;-)
> Actually, there's no reason why you should not be able to use a .Mac
> email account with *any* platform if the client sup****ts IMAP or POP
> protocols.
Given the condition that I know my username and password, I agree.
> I don't know the settings for IMAP, as I don't use it.
It seems to be the same settings, from Apple's do***entation. However, I
want to use POP.
> But for POP, the mail server is mail.mac.com and the SMTP server is
> smtp.mac.com.
Thanks. This is ok.
> The user name is the email address without the
> "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" ****tion.
This is certainly my problem (not the "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" ****tion, but the
username).
My steps aren't usual: 2 months after buying a .Mac account, my brother
asked if I could give him an email address. I looked at Apple's website
and saw the "Buy an additional email-only account" option. This service
seems to be kept "inside" my ".mac" account (I have to login in the
website using my account to see this new address).
First, I tried with the username of the new address (without the "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"
part) but I didn't know which password to set. Neither blank or same as
my ".Mac" account were accepted (I used "Mail" on my Mac to avoid
further reasons of problems ;-) ). So I believe it's not the correct
username.
Then, I tried with the username and password of my ".Mac" account
(leaving the address field as the new address so Mail won't try to use
mine). In that case, the authentication passed but I receive "User
mismatches authentication" error (sorry if inacurrate, I translate from
my dialect of french) whenever I try to do anything.
> And you probably should use ****t 587, the
> "submission ****t", for sending to make sure that no ISP ****t 25
> blocking gets in the way and to allow secure authentication.
Thanks for the advice.
In my computer, I know it is not blcoked, but at him... I don't know.
I'll look at that ****t's definition (587). I have never heard from it.
> I think various clients have different ways of doing it, but Apple's
> servers also allow the use of either SSL or TLS for secure connections.
They seem to tell this, indeed.
Thank you, Steve, for your quick response, which is really appreciated!
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