Using OS Catalina, my non- iCloud email using Apple Mail suddenly stopped allowing me to send emails, but I can still receive them. It gives a message that the server timed out and try a different server and it is offline ? ? The iCloud email works fine.
Outlook does work. So the problem isn't with my email provider, it seems to be with Apple Mail. There are no updates available and my email settings haven't changed. Any solutions?
Thanks
I have seen various reports of this problem here on this forum. For some reason when Mail is attempting to connect with the email provider's server. either your user ID or your password are not being received correctly and the server times out and disconnects. You can carefully check your user ID and passwords in Mail's preferences or delete the account and create a new one. If you do that, be sure to move any existing email messages to a local folder first or they will be lost. That is why I use Thunderbird for my emails. Never a problem.
I have seen various reports of this problem here on this forum. For some reason when Mail is attempting to connect with the email provider's server. either your user ID or your password are not being received correctly and the server times out and disconnects. You can carefully check your user ID and passwords in Mail's preferences or delete the account and create a new one. If you do that, be sure to move any existing email messages to a local folder first or they will be lost. That is why I use Thunderbird for my emails. Never a problem.
I'm just glad that I am not alone. I'm just used to the Apple Mail format and always used it. The email is for work so I also have it on Outlook. I will try to re-enter my credentials on the SMTP side and if that doesn't work I will take your advice and try Thunderbird.
Thanks!
Apple Mail won't send email but Outlook will
