Mac Mail password rejected by POP server with ATT ISP

Just 2 months ago my ATT mail server keeps rejecting my email password that I use on apple mail as well as gmail. Now I can't use my apple mail application but the same email address with same password will work for web mail by gmail. I spent $ and hours with ATT connectech service without resolution except aggravation from different call centers repeating same old stories.
Problem: every time I use apple mail, it pops a message to re-enter password because my email address/Password is rejected by POP server. Same address/PW work for my gmail account.
I thought I post here before I have to pay Apple for trouble-shooting now that I am done with futile ATT support. I may never get a fix. I even try to migrate to Comcast but it has problem connecting to my house. I am at my wit's end. Thanks for reading.

This issue may have more to do with your mail server rather than your Mac.
I too was afflicted with issue for over a week. I tried many fixes including, keychain repair, deleting my mail prefs and rebuilding my accounts by hand, toggling the interval button, shutting down and unplugging everything including AC power to my Mac. (btw -cancelling the message seemed to make it come back faster)
It was happening about half dozen times a day. Then one day it happened only 3 times, the next day twice, the next day once. Then gone! Fingers X'd it's 3 full weeks now without seeing it.
There is hope!
EDIT: As Max Miles says multiple computers can cause this. All are valid suggestions and may work in your cases.
-mj
[email protected]

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os 10.3.9
Mail 1.3.11
SBCglobal Internet access
I have spent many a wasted hours chatting with a very polite person in India (SBC tech support) about my mail problem only to be assured - more than once - that all my settings are correct and it’s a mac problem.
So here it is:
My incoming mail server is: pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com
I have my account password stored my mail program/keychain and sometimes mail manages to automatically access and download my email - just like you'd think it would. BUT then all of a sudden it doesn’t, and I get the error from mail:
The POP server “pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com” rejected the password for user “[email protected]”
Please re-enter your password, or cancel.
I re-enter - or cancel and wait for the next scheduled auto-check and it happens again and again. Occasionally though it works. If I hit the 'Get Mail' button twice in a row its pretty likely to reject the password at least once.
Any ideas why this should be - or how I could stop it?
Thanks in advance
Powerbook G4 800 DVI Mac OS X (10.3.9) 512RAM Airport Card Firmware: 9.52

This issue may have more to do with your mail server rather than your Mac.
I too was afflicted with issue for over a week. I tried many fixes including, keychain repair, deleting my mail prefs and rebuilding my accounts by hand, toggling the interval button, shutting down and unplugging everything including AC power to my Mac. (btw -cancelling the message seemed to make it come back faster)
It was happening about half dozen times a day. Then one day it happened only 3 times, the next day twice, the next day once. Then gone! Fingers X'd it's 3 full weeks now without seeing it.
There is hope!
EDIT: As Max Miles says multiple computers can cause this. All are valid suggestions and may work in your cases.
-mj
[email protected]

Password rejection by POP server

I have been able to download my mail from this webmail based popserver on and of for several months, but since three weeks I have not been able to download any into Mail.
When I access the account directly over the web I get in without a problem.
Thanks,
Hans Visser

I have set it up as POP; I have the same problem accessing it from my IMac as well as notebook running Mail.
Today our network consultant at CMB HQ looked at my problem on my notebook; we tried several settings and somehow solved the password rejection problem. However, it still wouldn't download any messages.
According to these guys the problem is Mail itself; it seems to timeout before downloading can take place.
They also tried downloading with Entourage which worked without a problem. Unfortunately it seems I can't import my Mail mailboxes into Entourage so that would still not solve my problem
I asked the network consultant to get in touc h with the dutch network manager and request them to sought out with Aplle Netherlands.
Any comments or recommendation are wellcome, thanks.

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Until April 2012 there were enough threads on password rejection to knit a large sweater but then the moderator closed the forum saying all was well. It isn't. I have been unable to access my bt mail since March except by logging on to webmail after which macmail behaves correctly for about 1 hour. Wasted £30 on a premium BT help service on this matter. Very nice guy but perplexed! This issue is not dead. I had the same issue with my iphone which was resolved in an Apple store. Is there now a fix for this utterly irritating situation? It does BT no credit whatsoever. Any chance of reclaiming my lost hours and £30? I think I know the answer to that one.

My macbook pro with OS 10.6.7 'mail' program does not send my mail through the IPS wireless, I am connected to. The message is my 'e-mail is rejected by the server'. It has been working until 5 days ago. The connection doctor says I am connected and no lo

My macbook pro with OS 10.6.7 'mail' program does not send my mail through the IPS wireless, I am connected to. The message is my 'e-mail is rejected by the server'. It has been working until 5 days ago. The connection doctor says I am connected and no log in required.
After trying lots I found now in 'Airport Utility is 'unable to detect any airport wireless devises.....'
There is no provider to be seen in airport utility and only 'rescan' is an option with no results...
even so I am connected and can browse the net receive mail etc. and the outgoing 'mail server' is set to the internet provider I am connected to.
Can you enlighten me what can I do I need to use my e-mail program urgently !!!
Thanks for your help

I'm not sure what "IPS wireless" is, but unless you have an Apple Wi-Fi base station (such as a Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, or AirPort Express), AirPort Utility won't see anything.
You might try defining a new SMTP server to see if that will work any better.
By the way, the subject field for these messages isn't intended to hold a lot of text. Put a short description of your problem in the subject field and save the rest of your message for the body field.

E-mail password rejection AGAIN

This wasaproblem a few months ago
http://community.bt.com/t5/Other-BB-Queries/E-mail-password-rejection/td-p/234061/highlight/true/pag...
All happening again today.
I DESPAIR of BTOpenworld

Am also having exactly the same irritating problem as davrh (the original poster).
My configuration is Intel iMac, OS X 10.5.8 & Apple Mail 3.6.
Worked fine for about 3 years, then started rejecting passwords as below:-
The POP server “mail.btinternet.com” rejected the password for user “[email protected]”
Please re-enter your password, or cancel.
Problem started about five months ago. I am using 3 BTinternet mail addresses within 2 Apple user accounts on the same iMac - all the BT e-mail addresses have the same problem.
Interestingly, a gmail account operated within the Mail client does not have the problem.
I have increased the time period for the Apple mail client to "check for new mail", as an attempt reduce the number of pop-ups and relieve the irritation factor.
As passwords are set within in the Mail client account information, this should not be an invalid password issue.
I suspect it may be a timing issue on the BT Mail server side.
I had hoped the issue would be resolved with the new update of BT Yahoo - which is advertised as being 2 x faster.
But it hasn't!
Really need a fix for this.

Mail not downloading from pop server

I hit the get mail button, and I see "Incoming Messages" working away in the bottom left corner, but the messages don't get downloaded to my imac.
I checked the Account INfo and the mail is on the POP server, but hasn't downloaded to my mail app.
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This is bad. My Inbox now shows empty. I have checked the mbox/messages folder, and it contains a lot of emix files, which are readable, but strangely, they are very old, many from previous years. There are no recent mails in these emix files. Yet I only keep the last couple of months' emails in my Inbox!
There are over 600 messages on the POP server, and I have stopped checking mail, in case Mail tells the server I have them, and my pending mails are deleted on the server. Checking Mail does not seem to show any new mails in my Inbox, although SpamSieve has logged several. (I have saved SpamSieve's log, so I can have its summary of emails I've supposedly received, and I can email their senders about them later if I have indeed lost these emails.)
I have turned off TimeMachine, so it doesn't overwrite my previous Inbox. When I check it, it contains emails up to the point where I upgraded to Leopard (21 November), but when I open these emix files, they only have a title, no contents.
I am confused and worried. Before upgrading to Leopard, I had a working mail client, and a lot of email in my Inbox. After upgrading, I can't receive mail, and my Inbox shows as empty. I have repaired permissions and restarted, more than once. Console has no comment: indeed, it shows no information after the 21st November (the day I upgraded), although other logs, such as the SpamSieve log, continue to update, and crash logs continue to be written. There are older "console" logs from previous dates, but the current "console" only goes up to 21st November.
Please advise me. I am frightened to do anything else myself, in case I lose my data. My concentration is very limited, but I can follow simple instructions.
I do not understand why Leopard Mail has rearranged my mailboxes. I had quite a few extra mailboxes within my overall account, and I filtered mailing list messages into them. (These mailboxes still contain their mail, including some messages which SpamSieve logs as received today.) These extra mailboxes are listed as part of "On My Mac", which I thought used to be the whole hierarchy, but after upgrading to Leopard, is only a sub-section of the hierarchy, listed after Reminders and Smart Mailboxes (I installed MailTags once, but had problems with it, so I removed it). Could this rearrangement of mailboxes be part of the current problem?
Thankyou for any help you can offer.

I changed my Apple ID and all was good except for my mac. A window keeps popping up with my old ID for the iCloud. I ran out of solution. can some help

I changed my Apple ID and all was good except for my mac. A window keeps popping up with my old ID for the iCloud. I ran out of solution. can some help

Sign out of iCloud on your Mac, then sign back in with the new ID.

Mac Mail password/ SMTP/ POP server issues

I have been using Mac Mail on my MacBook for many years. I have Yahoo Mail Plus POP mail. In the past several months I have had tons of problems, and keep resetting the password, POP & SMTP settings. This time, I can't even get past the password prompt popping up. It says I have the wrong password, but that is not the case. I have even removed the email account entirely from MacMail, and tried to set it back up from the beginning, but no luck.
I'm about to throw this thing out the window! Can anyone help??
Thanks-
JJ

The correct way is to use the exact settings provided by your ISP when you set up your account with them.
You can make a pretty good approximation by using this Apple web page. [Apple does not capture, store, use, or divulge the information entered in that form. It is simply a service for YOU.]
https://www.apple.com/support/mail-settings-lookup/

Mac mail keeps rejecting my yahoo password

This problem has happened to me twice now.
I have my yahoo email account set up in my mac Mail. Recently I keep getting this message saying that Yahoo.ca IMAP server "imap.mail.yahoo.com" rejected the password.
My password is all correct and I checked "Remeber this password in my keychain" but it still doesn't work. This message keeps poping out everytime no matter whether Yahoo is trying to receive new emails or not.
I originally thought it was a probelm from Yahoo, and I had emailed them this problem, and they said they had solved this issue from their end even though I kept telling them my password is still not accepted. The strange thing is that I think I could still send and receive emails (although not sure if I am receiving all the emails since the message kept poping out and that my yahoo keeps on going processing mode and then in the end a triangle with exclamation mark just appeared)
Another strange thing is that I have another Yahoo account on my Mail, yet this one never had simialr problem like this before. It is alsways this particular account I have that is having this problem.
I tried changing my password, logging in Yahoo from their website making sure the POP setting has checked. Still didn't solve my problem
I have tried going into my keychain to verify and repair my password from Keychain First Aid. But no problem was found.
I have also tried deleting my account from Mai Preference and re-added back on, still doesn't work.
The first time this problem had happened to this account, I ended up deleting it from Mail and added back on and it seemed to work, however this time nothing seems to be working.
Please help me!
Thank you.

Hey I also have this problem, but I think I might have diagnosed the problem (temporarily at least).
I realized that ever since I started using the Mail app, I rarely logged in to my actual Yahoo account. When I logged into Yahoo account, my account was actually temporarily deactivated as I haven't logged in for more than 2 weeks. So I signed in, and everything went back to normal.
Now the Mail app has stopped asking me to key in my password (at least for the last hour, so I'm happy).
Hopefully this will work. If it asks again, I will just log into my Yahoo account online.
Cheers!

Mac mail keeps "rejecting" my password

I am repeatedly receiving a pop-up window that says Mail has rejected my sbc global password. I'll enter the password, submit and the window pops up again. Sometimes 3 or 4 times in a row. Obviously, I'm not receiving emails while this is happening ...
Anyone else experiencing this?
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This is often an indication not that there is anything wrong with you password, but that your ISP's password server or POP3 mail server is not responding to the query for mail by your client. It is a problem on the server side—not the client side—of the process, and there is little you can do about it other than…
• notifying your likely non-responsive ISP, or
• reducing the frequency with which your client queries for mail.
You can increase the interval from [for example] every minute, to 15 or more minutes, which will decrease the frequency. You do this in the General pane of the Mail Preferences dialog. You choices to Check for new mail: are…
• every minute
• every 5 minutes
• every 15 minutes
• every 30 minutes
• every hour
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Mail Retrieval from POP server with Pipex

Having just moved house, I've had the displeasure of having to disconnect and re-connect my broadband connection through Pipex.
I've re-configured my email settings with my new pipex email address and username, and can send emails without any problems.
However, Mail doesn't retrieve any email from the pop server, and having checked the settings countless times, I cannot for the life of me figure out why Mail doesn't pull the emails from the server.
I've configured my wifes laptop (running windows) and the email sends and receives perfectly from the same account I'm trying on my iMac.
I've phoned Pipex tech support (who don't support Mac questions), and they have confirmed that I have the correct settings, and that they are the same settings for Windows or OSX.
The only thing that has changed as I see it, is my pipex user name and password, which I know are correct as I can send email from the Mail application.
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The smtp setting is smtp.dsl.pipex.com
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In Rules, you can set up the condition that if "From: contains" whatever is the sending email address of the RSS feed (assuming that these messages are relayed that way and don't come addressed as being from the O.P.), then delete it or move it to a mail folder that you have set up to be "on your mac" and not on the imap server. Or you can create a new condition, based on, for example, "Header contains" or "message body contains, and find some unique attribute only common to these particular messages to use as the evaluation criterion.
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I am adding my experience to the long list, just so that BT knows the problem is widespread and continuing. Yesterday and today, so far, I suddenly lost my BT Yahoo mail on my Mac with the now common password rejected message. I have no time to fix it so will use webmail meantime, but it just hammers another nail in the BT coffin.

Until April 2012 there were enough threads on password rejection to knit a large sweater but then the moderator closed the forum saying all was well. It isn't. I have been unable to access my bt mail since March except by logging on to webmail after which macmail behaves correctly for about 1 hour. Wasted £30 on a premium BT help service on this matter. Very nice guy but perplexed! This issue is not dead. I had the same issue with my iphone which was resolved in an Apple store. Is there now a fix for this utterly irritating situation? It does BT no credit whatsoever. Any chance of reclaiming my lost hours and £30? I think I know the answer to that one.

Mac Mail.app V.2.0.5 with OSX server's email don't play well sometimes

I have my own web, FTP, and email server. (OSX 10.4.4 Server). I've been managing my own server services since AppleShare V.6 .So I've done this a few times. I have set up an account for myself "nino" on the server that people email to, you know "[email protected]".
On my laptop I have Mac Mail.app set to log onto my server, via the internet, and to get and send emails. Sounds pretty normal right? Yep, it is except four or five times since I updated the server to 10.4.4., last December, Mac Mail.app simply stops receiving email from my account. Now I'm a pretty busy guy and email is my main source of communications. Plus get a healthy amount of junk mail. So I hear that familiar beep at least twice an hour - usually a lot more. I can always when this tell when this anomaly happens when two hours go by without something arriving in Mac Mail.app.
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I have my own web, FTP, and email server. (OSX 10.4.4 Server). I've been managing my own server services since AppleShare V.6 .So I've done this a few times. I have set up an account for myself "nino" on the server that people email to, you know "[email protected]".
On my laptop I have Mac Mail.app set to log onto my server, via the internet, and to get and send emails. Sounds pretty normal right? Yep, it is except four or five times since I updated the server to 10.4.4., last December, Mac Mail.app simply stops receiving email from my account. Now I'm a pretty busy guy and email is my main source of communications. Plus get a healthy amount of junk mail. So I hear that familiar beep at least twice an hour - usually a lot more. I can always when this tell when this anomaly happens when two hours go by without something arriving in Mac Mail.app.
The catch here is the server is still accepting mail for my account. I can go to web mail, which I have set-up and working fine, and new emails are there! Mac Mail.app simple stops accepting them.
I have tried:
restarting both machines
changing the password to my account, on both machines
actually deleting my account from Mac Mail.app, restarting and creating my account again
Nada.... I can see emails adding up in web mail....grrrrrr.
The only way I know to resolve this is to, gulp, delete my account on the Server and set it up again. This seems to work but unless I've answered messages in web mail their gone! Poof. I do like to keep good records by saving and organizing business related emails. So when this happens I'm screwed.
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Mail passwords for a pop account

I have two mail accounts one pop account in belgium and one mac account. After upgrading to leopard, mail is asking on an irregular basis for the password for the pop account.
In the preferences for mail the password for the pop account doesn't show, even after it has been given again. It look likes if Mail doesn't save it, it doesn't show up in the preferences. Even a new set-uo if the mail account didn't solve the problem.
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I have also tried this and even setting up a new emailaccount. When setting it up it takes halv an hour to the computer in checking the connections with the smtp server and sometimes it fails. The strange thing is that I also get the question about the certicate for my smptpserver and the question if I am going to rely on it. I answer yes. And then it works a few times. But then it is the same song again
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Mac Mail password rejected by POP server with ATT ISP

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