OS X mail issues

[1mac-arch]

I just installed 10.1 toady and was trying to set up my e-mail accounts. The problems I'm running into are: I can't send mail out using any of my accouts, (Yahoo, Hotmail, and another more private account). I can receive e-mail, except from Hotmail. But when I send mail out, it says it cannot determint the IP address of host. I'm using the same info I used in Entourage 2001. Is there a difference?

[lonny]

Ok, Mail works with POP acounts.
No web based stuff like yahoo or hotmail.
Entourage works with hotmail, because it's from MS.
Hotmail sucks anyways because of the spam u get.........

[tismey]

Mail can be configured to be used with IMAP accounts (that's what your mac.com address is). This _can_ work with some web-based email services, I believe, but not with Hotmail.

Is your 'other, more private' account a POP account, or from another web-bsed service? Some more information should help us to sort you out....

[Jadey]

Hotmail recently disabled support for checking mail outside of the hotmail web site. This was done for "security reasons".

[genghiscohen]

You should be able to use your Yahoo account by first going to your Yahoo email web page, and using the set-up options there to designate your email client as the default for yor Yahoo email account.