Apple Mail keeps asking me for my password ... over and over
Hi,
I am having an issue that is driving me crazy on my macbook.
I have set up my mail password without issues and was accessing this until a month ago on a regular basis. Now, when I access it, it asks me for my password every 30 seconds - I have tried entering it, validating it, changing it, deleting past the message, resetting the entire account from the preferences ( including deleting the account and re-adding it ) but nothing seems to work.
Does anyone have any what I need to do to get this to work? I'm wondering if I need to start deleting keychains but surely the system should use the latest version and I should not need to. This is driving me crazy - all I want to do is write a mail and I spend 30 mins tryingt to get past this message.
Thanks for your help,
Matthew
go to Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access
on the left, for Keychains, select login
for Category, select Passwords
use the search box to search for all keychain entries related to the passwords in question
delete those entries
in the Keychain Access menu, scroll down to Keychain First Aid
enter your password, select repair, and start
I don't know if a restart is needed at this point but it wouldn't hurt.
you will have to enter your passwords again but this time they should stick.
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