verizon mail setup?

[motulist]

I'm trying to setup mail.app to access a verizon account, but it's not reaching the account, when it tries to retrieve mail it just spins the activity indicator for a few minutes and then reports that the connection timed out.

The account settings are pictured below.

What am I doing wrong? How do I get it to retrieve my mail?

[Eidorian]

Try it without SSL.

Yes, rly.

[motulist]

Okay, that works. Thanks.

But now it's saying the password I entered was incorrect, which is possible. Is it possible that it's giving me that error simply because ssl is not enabled?

[Eidorian]

Verizon doesn't use SSL. Don't ask me why. They just don't.

[motulist]

The problem was ssl was enabled by default and also I had the password incorrect, so all works well now. I was setting up a Mac for my Mom, and every time I encounter verizon I'm reminded why I avoid them at all costs. The no ssl was just one in a long series of ways that verizon makes things tremendously and unnecessarily complex.

Verizon, feh.

[Strom1]

I'm in the same situation,the only problem is I can't send out any e-mails and when i receive e-mails how come the mailbox symbol on the dock doesn't show the e-mails with a number, i have to first click on the e-mail symbol on the dock and put retrieve e-mails,why?

[slayerpwner]

Eidorian, I love you.