Mail 2.0.7 - Earthlink Passwords Rejected

Question

Hello,
I would appreciate any help anyone can give with this problem. My Mail app worked fine last night with my Earthlink accounts; today, I receive repeated "password rejected" messages. I checked with an Earthlink online rep who had me re-enter my account settings, so those should be correct, but it didn't fix the problem. My Entourage app gives the same "password rejected" message.
The Earthlink rep suggested that I remove and then add back the accounts in Mail, but since there's also suddenly a problem with Entourage, that doesn't seem right to me. In the past, this has happened intermittently but the problem seems to be more persistent this time.
Does anyone have any other suggestions I can try? Thanks in advance for your help!
Lisa
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Answer 1

This is what a garbled message has in the long header:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
--Apple-Mail-30-357644283
Content-Type: multipart/appledouble;
boundary=Apple-Mail-31-357644283
Content-Disposition: inline
--Apple-Mail-31-357644283
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/applefile;
name="IMG_1231.jpg"
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename=IMG_1231.jpg
Then the garbled text and then:
--Apple-Mail-31-357644283--
--Apple-Mail-30-357644283
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=US-ASCII;
format=flowed
IMG_1231.JPG
--Apple-Mail-30-357644283--
Imac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)