AOL mail server/thru Mail-password?

Have ALL up-to-date software, recently upgraded to iLife '11 - & all of a sudden it seems that my AOL password won't "stick" in my "keychain" -- I keep checking the box & every time I log out/in it keeps asking me to re-enter password. Anyone know if AOL has changed their imap servers in some way that is causing this, or if there is some way for me to get around this?

I was able to fix my connection following the steps in this link. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3276
Aol must have changed the IMAP port number without warning. The instructions on the aol site for Apple Mail listed the wrong port, too.
good luck!

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Ive searched the net up and down but what i found works for a short period of time, Then it pops up again.
This is what pops up in console, ive blanked out my info. I dont know what twitter and facebook have anything to do with it but hopefully someone can help me fix this problem, its very annoying. especially since it always worked fine untill i updated.
This started happening after i updated to 10.9.1 which is odd because this and the previous update was supposed to fix this alot of osx mail problems that i never had in the first relase of mavericks.
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This is what keeps popping up.

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I have had issues of "password incorrect" and mail not being sent, after doing the latest IOS 8 update to both my iPhone and iPad. I tired all the different suggestions I found (deleting and re-adding my AOL account, changing my password, etc) and nothing fixed it until now! While searching around for a solution, I happened upon a post from someone. I tried doing this to all three of my AOL email accounts (on both my iPhone and iPad) and now it works great! Here what that post said to do:
"1. Set up your AOL account(s) using the AOL option
2. Go into each AOL account(s) and under the "Outgoing Mail Server" section, press the SMTP entry
3. Set the "Primary Server" to "Off"
4. Press "Add Server" and provide the following information in the "Outgoing Mail Server" section
    a. Host Name - type in: smtp.aol.com
    b. User name - type in your user name WITHOUT the "@aol.com" - that was the problem/change!
    c. Password - type in your password
    d. Use SSL - On
    e. Authentication - Password
    f. Server Port - 587 (mine automatically set it to port 587)
After you enter in the above info, the Primary Server will still be set to OFF, but the new server you set will be set to ON, just doesn't show up in the Primary Server section. Be sure to do the above steps for each one of your AOL accounts (if you have multiples ones).
Apparently, in the main AOL Account Information section you need to use your user name and the "@aol.com", but you need to leave the "@aol.com" out of the SMTP. However, the Primary Server has that whole section grayed out so you need to ignore that one and create another one."
Good luck! Worked for me and now I am as happy as a Lamb!!

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How do i create a mail box in the SMTP server thru a java program. If it is possible thru a java program.pls suggest a mail server compatible for the above possibility to work.
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Please let me know if it is not at all possible to
create a user account automatically thru a program
(java) in a mail server... how does yahoo work
then..does he manually add a user to the mail
server...By talking to a web server not a mail server.
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Is not there any mail server that will allow us to
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Any ideas?
thx

You're Welcome lenn!
I honestly can't say, as I do still use the AOL software. But you could still try it, to see if it works with her AOL Email address, if that is all she has.
Are you and she aware, that if she is now using another ISP, she can still use the AOL software for free?
Excerpt "The AOL service is now FREE to anyone with an Internet connection – even if it’s from another Internet service provider.
Even if you decide at some point to move to high speed or use another dial-up provider to connect to the Internet, you can keep your AOL email, AOL software and more for as long as you'd like to use them. It's your choice." from Exclusive benefits for AOL members.
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Can't send mail, get message: the smtp server rejected the password. I tried lock and unlock keychain. I tried unlock captcha. Gmail works okay, it is Mail that does not. Help!! :(

Can't send mail, get message: the smtp server rejected the password. I tried lock and unlock keychain. I tried unlock captcha. Gmail works okay, it is Mail that does not. Help!!

Hi
You need to check with your ISP whether or not the send mail server (SMTP) requires a password. Some do, but many do not. When you know the correct password to send mail, then you need to tell Mail as follows:
Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts > Select the account
Click on the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) combo box, and select Edit SMTP Server List...
In the Account Information tab put the server name
In the Advanced Tab, set up the authentication information from your ISP.
Good luck
Bob

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This has been going on for a couple of weeks. I get a warning that my ISP server isn't recognizing my mail password. The password hasn't changed, so I re-enter the password, check the box about remembering password in keychains. This may happen several times in one day & then it goes away for a few days ,but starts up again. It has started up again this morning x3 & I 'm at a loss as to what to do to fix it since I've only been on the Mac since last October. Thanks for any suggestions!

Hi Debbie,
Ernie's almost certainly right about this being an ISP-side issue. For what it's worth, I occasionally get a similar message from Entourage about 'password not recognized, do I want to try to enter it again' during the periodic (5 minutes) check of the mail server on my work Mac. If the network goes out briefly or the servers bog down (both of which our IT department swears never, ever, well hardly ever happens), the business of sending the account password to the ISP's server and getting back an acknowledgement break down. Like you, I've found that when this starts happening, I just keep trying to reconnect until it works again, after which it will typically run OK for several weeks (until the next network upgrade).

TS3899 Suddenly on both my iPhone and iPad I cannot access my AOL mail. They tell me my user name and password are incorrect. Yet, I have no problem with other devices in accessing. I have deleted and reinstalled my account information etc. Any ideas?

Suddenly on both my iPhone and iPad I cannot access my AOL mail. It tells me my user name or password are incorrect. Yet I have no trouble accessing from other devices. This occurred randomly in the middle of the night. I'd done nothing different or unusual. I've tried re-starting both devices, tried deleting and re-installing my account information. Any suggestions?

Hmm... looks like this is an issue for that email provider for some reason.
A user in a bt.com forums recommends turning off Push Emails settings.
http://community.bt.com/t5/Other-BB-Queries/quot-incorrect-user-name-or-password -quot-Oh-no-it-isn-t/td-p/408763
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I am completely unable to use Mail.
I keep getting the "The POP server rejected the password for user" on two of my accounts.
The password has not changed and I have entered it correctly.
The accounts just will not go online.
This started yesterday when an old machine accidentally fired up mail and tried to connect using the same user details. Since then, my MacBook Pro is not able to connect to my mail.
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Please can you advise how I should fix it? Plist? Define the accounts again?
Any ideas welcome.
Thanks

Sorry I can't be of help, I know of others with this problem. In my case I have two accounts that don't work in Mail whilst the other accounts do. I suspect it may be a bug as I've been looking for a solution for sometime. My current solution is to collect the mail on those accounts with an XP netbook which is probably not very helpful!
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My mail (hotmail) has stopped receiving emails and keeps saying the IMAX server username and password is wrong when I haven't changed anything?

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That is not good, lets see if we can get your email back up and running again. Take a look at the article below to go over the settings to just make sure nothing is out of the ordinary. You may end up needing to remove the email account and add it back in.
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I have Mail set to automatically check email every 5 minutes from an SBC-Yahoo DSL line.
*Every day* when I come home, the "Server rejected the password" error dialog is waiting for me. Of course, the password is correct. When I re-enter it, Mail downloads the mail correctly.
This problem seems to occur more often since I switched over from the old prodigy.net to the sbc.yahoo.com servers.
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I have Mail set to automatically check email every 5
minutes from an SBC-Yahoo DSL line.
*Every day* when I come home, the "Server rejected
the password" error dialog is waiting for me. Of
course, the password is correct. When I re-enter it,
Mail downloads the mail correctly.
This problem seems to occur more often since I
switched over from the old prodigy.net to the
sbc.yahoo.com servers.
While I sure wished that Mail was not totally
boneheaded in handling the occasional failed POP
connection attempt, I wonder whether:
1. I am the only one having this problem
2. It's a Yahoo problem
3. Is there a way to fix it?
TIA
I am having the same problem. I have to re-type my password for two POP accounts each time I start MAIL. It doesn't hold the SMTP passwords either.
Once I go into the preferences and re-type them it will connect fine until I restart MAIL and I have to start all over again...I too wonder the same things!

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I've gotten this error message in various versions of Mac OS X on different Macs.
Occasionally this dialog will pop up in Mail saying:
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The server rejected the password for user [my email].
Enter your password again or cancel
Then at the bottom of the dialog there's a checkbox to "Remember this password in my keychain"
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Staying connected via your AOL email is definitely important! Thank you so much for all of the troubleshooting steps you've taken so far. Let's make sure we get to the bottom of this right away.
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