Mail Account Keeps Asking for Password

My new iPhone 4 is great, but after setting up my mail accounts it keeps periodically asking for the password for that account. I can receive mail, but can't send it out. I have entered the correct password a number of times - even confirming it on my laptop via keychain. Any suggestions???

Kevin:
Did you fill in your password for outgoing mail as well? If you set up a smtp account via itunes sync, I found only the receiving email password was filled in. I had the same issue until I looked closer at the accounts set up and noticed that the outgoing mail password was empty. My .mac account was fine, but my other accounts all had the same empty sending password empty.
Hope this helps.

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