Problem with mail?

[Daniel97]

my new MBP just turned up and i copied across my home directory basically .. all music and videos and documents

for some reason it also carried across most of my settings so when i download apps they miraculously appear!

anyway

the mail app keeps asking for my password .. i enter it and 30 seconds later it wants it again!

i click save and it doesnt make a difference

can anybody help?

 

[Nuckinfuts]

my new MBP just turned up and i copied across my home directory basically .. all music and videos and documents

for some reason it also carried across most of my settings so when i download apps they miraculously appear!

anyway

the mail app keeps asking for my password .. i enter it and 30 seconds later it wants it again!

i click save and it doesnt make a difference

can anybody help?

Were your old MBP and the new one the same exact version of OS X and Mail? If you copied your entire home directory as one folder, then you probably accidentally carried over your ~/Library folder. I'd google a safe way to remove application settings from the folder since I don't think its entirely safe to just delete ~/Library

PS. If you don't know what "~" means in directory structure, it's a shorthand for your home directory path. So if your username is "joe", then ~/Library is the same as /Users/joe/Library

 

[Daniel97]

i already had the problem on my old imac

its like keychain isnt working :S

constantly asking for my hotmail password