Hotmail acct hacked and now Mail program won't work
It looks like my hotmail account was hacked and sent numerous spam emails to my address book. I changed my password and they seemed to have stopped, but now I cannot send/receive emails using this acct through mac mail program. I have accessed my hotmail acct thru mail for years now.
The only thing that comes up is the msg: "POP server "pop3.live.com" rejected the password for user ...
but doesnt take the password.
Now I cant send/rec from my iPhone either -- tells me the user name or password is incorrect.
The questions: would the spam issue block my hotmail acct and freeze the mail program. If so, can it be restore and how? ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED! THANKS
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
And maybe instead if entering pop.live3.com, try using 208.87.32.68
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