Getting Mail To Work

[Guitarius]

Okay, I'm having a problem getting Mail to work. I have a Netscape account, which is an IMAP account. Supposedly, IMAP accounts work on mail, so I see no reason this shouldn't work. Everytime I put the info in, I get the same error message that says it is unable to contact the server. Now what reall ygets to me, is I get this error message almost immediatly after hitting the next button. There is no waiting, so I don't see how it could be timing out or anything. I'm clueless. Any help?

 

[rainman::|:|]

Do you have a firewall running? You may have to unblock a port for IMAP, i've never used one of them before...

edit: it's TCP port 143

paul

 

[blodwyn]

I'm using Mail to access an IMAP account, so it does work. Have you tried pinging the mailserver?

 

[Guitarius]

The SOB still isn't working...this is really starting to piss me off...

I unblocked port 143...no luck.

I tried pinging the mailserver...no luck.

Does Netscape's mail just not work on Mail? Is that it?

 

[Horrortaxi]

When you created the account in Mail did you tell it it's an imap account? Are you entering all the server information accurately?