Solutions to current .Mac connection woes
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Having trouble connecting to your .Mac account with Mail.app? You’re not alone.
According to a post 
at MacFixit:
Users are continuing to report (in droves) problems accessing .Mac services — particularly mail — over the past few days.
The post also suggest two solutions that have helped some of its readers.
First, cleaning out the Mac OS X’s caches seems to work for some. You can do this with Tiger Cache Cleaner (USD 8.99) or AppleJack (freeware).
Secondly, it suggests a restart.
There is an easier way. Under the “Other” pane of .Mac’s webmail preferences, you will find a option to forward your messages to an email service that actually works:
After .Mac sorts itself out, you can go back to accessing it directly (if you want to).
Tags: Apple Mail, cache, connection problems, dotmac, mac, mail.app, restart, solution, timeouts