Problem with .Mac and MAIL...

[Matto1020]

So I just signed up for a free trial on .Mac and I cannot for the life of me get my MAIL app to connect to my account. It connects fine to my msn account but it won't work for my .Mac account.

I followed all the directions, did the port to 587 instead of 25...but I keep getting this error:

The server error encountered was: The server “mail.mac.com” refused to allow a connection on port 143

And it says my account is offline. Can anyone help out?

 

[Peace]

It's an IMap type account and the server port is 25.

It should look like this :

 

[Matto1020]

It is set to Imap and I changed the port to 25 but it still doesnt work.

 

[Matto1020]

Yup it looks exactly like that yet it still says the same error.

 

[Peace]

Are you connecting through a router that might be blocking that port?

Check your security settings also.

And what O/S are you using ?

 

[Matto1020]

Are you connecting through a router that might be blocking that port?

Check your security settings also.

And what O/S are you using ?

Yes I am connecting through a Linksys Wireless router.

I don't exactly know what you mean by "Check your security settings"

I am using Leopard.

Would it help if I just bought a Apple Airport Exteme basestation? I mean...Apple seems to have everything work fine...and I have been eyeing the basestation. Is it that much easier to configure than a Linksys router???