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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Mac mail
Date: 4 Sep 2015 22:25:45 GMT
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On 2015-09-04, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>
> The preferences for Mail present very ambiguous entries - it's not at 
> all clear where to enter a POP, SMTP or IMAP port number.  Very east to 
> get them backward.

To me it seems the POP and IMAP port settings are right where I would
expect them to be:

Preferences > Accounts > (accountname) > Advanced

Now, apparently Apple decided that SMTP servers should be treated
differently. All o the SMTP servers are collected as a pool, apparently
so that any mail account can easily use any SMTP server in the pool. So
the path to those port settings is a little different:

Preferences > Accounts > (accountname) > Information > Outgoing Mail
Server > Edit SMTP Server

I think it would be more intuitive if they were both in the same place.
I'm not sure I see enough value for users in having the SMTP servers in
a pool considering it makes users look in a different panel.

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