Email started often asking for password

This is strange. I've had my n8 for a couple of months now, and its been fine but in the last week or so some strange thing has started happening.
It regularly grabs my email fine but for some reason every so often asks for my password again. I'm using my phone and suddenly this prompt pops up demanding my email password. It does it most often for my bt internet email, several times a day, occasionally for my yahoo email, but never for my gmail adress.
Any ideas why its started doing this and how I can fix it?

Since I bought my N8 I'm currently facing the same issue. I have 3 email accounts, each having a widget entry in the third home screen. It asks me at minimum once a day the password for some of the 3 email accounts (one is [email protected]). I must add that the N8 messaging is hanging once a day, ie it doesn't update anymore some of the email accounts. In this case I have to switch off then on the N8. And then some minutes after that it asks some of the passwords again, not always... Any idea ?

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Hi Folks,
I don't normally post to these forums because I tend to solve my own issues, but I'm having a problem with my iPhone 4S which has stumped (and angered) me.
The device is running version 6.0.1 and isn't jailbroken or interfered with in any way.
A couple of days ago it started asking me to input the password for both my me.com and gmail.com accounts and when I did as prompted the device tells me that they're wrong - but they aren't! The issue means that I can't access either of my email accounts from my device and I can't download apps that I've previously bought and paid for.
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Well, I though I'd make an account and post this for discussion purposes...
The email verification I recieved has a link that requests user ID and Password for my account!
I recommend to everyone that you Never enter user name and password information in a link that you click on in your inbox!!!
I have seen hundereds of scam emails that look completely legitament and reques your accound information, DON'T ENTER IT!!
Apple should already know your user id and passord!!
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I do believe that it IS a Firefox problem. I didn't have the problem before updating Firefox. Check out this site from Yahoo Answers. It's the same problem, but the advice is no longer accurate: The question was posted years ago, and the "fix" is for an outdated Explorer version. However, the Asker poses the question quite well.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080506073911AAhE2Ye
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080506073911AAhE2Ye
Please let me know if you find a fix. Aggravating!!

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Go here: http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/accounts/
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but it doesn't ask you if you have one or say that you won't be able to log on without one.
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