All mail programs stopped sending today for no reason
 

BOTH my mail programs simply
STOPPED SENDING MAIL for NO REASON at the same time.

Entrouge and Apples MAIL programs just stopped sending.

All my setings are correct and Ive had no issues for years till today.

I am PERPLEXED

please for the love of Steve Jobs HELP!

Are you using your ISP's SMTP server?
Many ISPs block use of other SMTP servers than their own and maybe your ISP just started doing this yesterday.

There will be a reason shown in the connection doctor in Mail, and in the error log in Entourage. In Entourage click on that little yellow exclamation triangle in the bottom right to open it. In Mail, click on Window/Connection Doctor.

Have you tried setting mail to send thru port 587 instead of 25?

Yes im using my isp smtp

I cannot for the life of me figure out whats wrong.

MAIL error message-->
'There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Check the settings for account "POP Account" or try again.

The server error encountered was: The server "mail.zenster.net" refused to allow a connection on port 110.'

I CALLED GODADDY , THEY SAID 110 WAS CORRECT. THEY DONT KNOW WHY ITS NOT WORKING.

ENTEROUGE error message--> THERE IS NO YELLOW TRIANGLE . It READ-

'Entourage cannot connect to the server. Verify that your computer is connected to the network.'

THIS IS TTAL BS.

WTF????

I CAN SEND MAIL FROM BOTH ACCOUNTS!!

I JUST CANT RECEIVE

sorry about the caps

or
You are contradicting yourself here. It is very important to slow down, take a deep breath, and answer questions slowly and carefully. Recheck answers for accuracy and clarity.

Are you having problems with sending or with receiving?

What exactly (be precise, recheck answers) are all the settings you are using in Mail and in Entourage for your mail servers, authentication, port, etc.?

From this message, it appears that you are running your own mail server. Port 110 is the POP3 port, from which you would receive mail.

Please confirm that you are running your own mail server, and exactly how you have your mail server set? What are you using for POP3? What are the mail server's POP3 settings? How is your mail server firewalled? Have you checked your mail server for intrusions?

Trevor

my bad, I apologize for the confusion.




I cannot RECEIVE MAIL.




I can SEND mail from both programs but not RECEIVE

And what about Trevor's questions about 'mail.zenster.net' ?

that address resolves and pings
 

So it would seem reasonable to assume that you have a mail server set up locally. In which case, you really need to check your POP server/client settings in whatever mailer you are using to make sure it is configured properly.

Joe VanZandt

I dont see the question

but yes that is how my incomming is set up.

I JUST went to mac tech store and set up an email account on his Mac MAIL

AND IT WORKED. But they had no idea why mine is not working.

They suggested to make a disk image copy of my HD on another external HD and see if
Mail works from that HD.

If it does, my OS needs to be ereased an reinstalled i suppose.


BTW thank you all for being so cool!
Very kind!

WHERE is that domain hosted?

What is between you and that domain? Routers? Firewalls? What type of internet connection do you have?

hosted at godaddy

I do have a wireless router
and the firewall is on but i allow ichat itunes iphoto network time

i have a high speed connection with comcast

Check to see that Port 25 is open in your firewall
 

Port 25 is what POP uses to check mail. As this was not listed in the group of apps, you should check the firewall and be sure that it allows access to port 25.

Joe VanZandt

Re-read the last part of post #8 above.

That seems like bad advice since it would seem that this is just a Mail.app configuration issue or a network configuration issue.

Where are you getting this (incorrect) information from? Please check your sources.

From the grey matter of my brain
 

Which seems to have turned to mush. Port 110 is what it should be. Thanks for the correction and sorry for the error.

Joe VanZandt

Really? What should I do?


i created a mail account on another mac and IT WORKED!

Dosent it seem that i need to reinstall my OS?

start fresh?

its a huge pain in the ass but so is always going to godaddy to check my mail.


:(

Change your Mail.app account configuration (via Mail.app preferences) to use your ISP's POP server or whatever POP server works.
Complain to the hosting company that you are paying for your mail.zenster.net domain and try to get them to fix their POP server.

dig mail.zenster.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> mail.zenster.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52099
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mail.zenster.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mail.zenster.net. 3218 IN CNAME pop.secureserver.net.
pop.secureserver.net. 514 IN A 64.202.165.92

The people who run pop.secureserver.net use tcpwrappers (and a very weird setup with lots of open ports), port 110 is open.
Like hayne said, if you're sure nothing changed on your end, bug them until things start working again.

Did you try the solution in the post you had quoted for this reply?

I had the same exact problem as you and overriding to Port 587 did the trick for me. Perhaps the detailed explanation here might help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2500180

Good luck!