I have two addresses. Today I had to enter the password twice for the secondary account, once in the morning and later in the day. I checked "remember" each time. This is not the first time it did this but twice in one day was different. Anyone else have this happen? Anyone know why?
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Mail forgets password?
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mine does this all the time. Same with IM accounts....no idea....need to repair keychain?
It may not be a forgotten password. Mail's error handling is piss-poor; just about any error comes back as a 'rejected' password.
I wouldn't say that's poor exception handling on the part of mail.app. Almost all email clients work that way. If a session fails for any reason, they'll request the password again. The "problem" is not mail.app but a flaky mail server or internet connection.
Open the settings of both the email accounts and under account screen, uncheck & recheck "Remember password". Hope this should work.
Try all the previous suggestions but if they don't work then maybe do some checking on your keychain.
Mine was doing the same thing. The last time I changed my login password all my keychain passwords broke. Keychain first aid didn't help and login syncing was already checked.
So, I did what any red blooded computer user does; I deleted it (my keychain) and started fresh. If you can't remember all your passwords be sure to look at your keychain before you do anything. Also, if you want you can backup your existing login keychain; it's in /library/keychains in your home folder.
Mine was doing the same thing. The last time I changed my login password all my keychain passwords broke. Keychain first aid didn't help and login syncing was already checked.
So, I did what any red blooded computer user does; I deleted it (my keychain) and started fresh. If you can't remember all your passwords be sure to look at your keychain before you do anything. Also, if you want you can backup your existing login keychain; it's in /library/keychains in your home folder.
I'm not so convinced... not even all of Apple's e-mail clients do this -- the iPhone doesn't ask for a password unless there's an actual password error. T-Bird and Outlook (AFAIK... it's been a while since I used multiple accounts on Outlook) don't do this either.
I've never seen any sensibility in this behavior from Mail.app....