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dorayme - 28 Nov 2006 20:55 GMT

Every now and then Mail asks me for my passwords for pop accounts
it is trying to access. I dutifully type in and even tick the
"remember in keychain" and it goes on happily, days later
sometimes it will happen again? This morning a bad case of no
matter how many times I filled in the dialog query, it kept
asking right there and then and I just had to cancel. A sign of
trouble, anyone had this sort of trouble? And fixed it?

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Gerry - 28 Nov 2006 21:15 GMT

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<doraymeRidThis-2EA4ED.07552829112006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,

> Every now and then Mail asks me for my passwords for pop accounts
> it is trying to access. I dutifully type in and even tick the
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> asking right there and then and I just had to cancel. A sign of
> trouble, anyone had this sort of trouble? And fixed it?

It may not be Mail's fault, I've had this happen when my ISP's
authentication servers are down or having problems.

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Sara Kirk - 28 Nov 2006 21:23 GMT

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<everyday-0E7CEF.13155828112006@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com>, Gerry
<everyday@sunrise.net> wrote:

> In article
> <doraymeRidThis-2EA4ED.07552829112006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> It may not be Mail's fault, I've had this happen when my ISP's
> authentication servers are down or having problems.

It's one of Mail's less useful error messages and can mean almost
anything has gone wrong along the line. In the times I've seen it, it
very rarely means that the password is wrong.

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dorayme - 28 Nov 2006 21:41 GMT

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<everyday-0E7CEF.13155828112006@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com>,

ah... never thought of that one... thanks, it is a cheerier
thought because not something I have to do anything about for
now... I think you may be right because now nothing is coming
through and many of my mailboxes are "tildered"... I will wait a
few hours.

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Clever Monkey - 28 Nov 2006 21:49 GMT

True. My answer to this (though it has not happened in a long time) has
been to cancel the dialog without changing anything and restart Mail.

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dorayme - 28 Nov 2006 22:28 GMT

> > In article
> > <doraymeRidThis-2EA4ED.07552829112006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
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> True. My answer to this (though it has not happened in a long time) has
> been to cancel the dialog without changing anything and restart Mail.

Yes, I have done this several times but all is tildered and will
see if it continues. Might restart computer itself.

While on this, I have been thinking maybe things are getting full
in Mail, I should do some maintenance. I never ever do apart from
chucking junk and trash. What do you do?

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Paul Mitchum - 28 Nov 2006 21:44 GMT

As others have said, it could mean anything, but usually that there's an
error in the network or the authentication servers are down. What I have
to add: You can just click 'cancel,' rather than re-enter the
password(s). The next time Mail tries to connect, it will use the
password(s) it already has.

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dorayme - 28 Nov 2006 22:24 GMT

> > Every now and then Mail asks me for my passwords for pop accounts
> > it is trying to access. I dutifully type in and even tick the
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> password(s). The next time Mail tries to connect, it will use the
> password(s) it already has.

Thanks, sort of what I meant when I said "and I just had to
cancel"

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BreadWithSpam@fractious.net - 30 Nov 2006 18:23 GMT

> Every now and then Mail asks me for my passwords for pop accounts
> it is trying to access. I dutifully type in and even tick the
> "remember in keychain" and it goes on happily, days later
> sometimes it will happen again? This morning a bad case of no

It's not forgetting your password. That's the unfortunate
means by which Mail tells you that it could not log into the
mail server. It presents a message which assumes that the
password it has was wrong.

Hit "cancel". The account will go offline. Take it back
online and it'll try to hit the mailserver again.

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dorayme - 30 Nov 2006 19:50 GMT

> > Every now and then Mail asks me for my passwords for pop accounts
> > it is trying to access. I dutifully type in and even tick the
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> Hit "cancel". The account will go offline. Take it back
> online and it'll try to hit the mailserver again.

Yes, thanks... that is essentially what I did. It was the server
down a while.

It must be something making an operating system, programs etc and
getting everything right, appropriate messages and so on. Easy to
understand that they just give up in the end and say: Look, lets
ship this thing out, it is good enough. And it is!

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