Mail times out when connecting to .mac

[Goldcard]

I receive a message that says mail is timing out when sending messages via my .mac account. however, it is only happening on my intel imac and not on my old ibook. will let me send from .mac web email but not from mail aaplication. i have all recent updates. any ideas?

 

[Goldcard]

anyone have this problem before? I'm still trying to figure out what the problem is?

 

[FadeToBlack]

Change the server port for smtp to 587 and see if that works. I'm on Leopard and I can't remember where the preference was in Tiger's Mail.