Apple Mail Password Prompt

Hi.
I have 2 email accounts setup with mail, a mobile me account and a hotmail account.
While I have selected for mail to remember the passwords, the hotmail account is also asking to input the password, and if I dont reenter the password it takes the hotmail account offline.
Ive already tried removing the account and adding it again. Doesnt seem to matter. It asks for the password almost everytime it goes to check for new mail, as far as I can tell.
If I do enter the password, even though I click the box to remember it, it will ask again next time.
Any suggestions?

Hi, I have that same annoyance and setup. When it pops up, just hit cancel, refusing to believe it forgot your password. Then, I just right click on hotmail inbox and choose "take hotmail online." Sometimes it gets stubborn, so I take it offline first, then back online. It works without entering the password at all. Apple and Microsoft just don't get along, in many ways. No matter how many times you redo it, it won't work, because it's not really forgetting the PW. Yahoo is even worse. That's why I simply use Gmail, and it ends the whole issue.
Mike

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