Mail Account Preferences problem

I am trying to update my mail account. When I open Preferences, click on the account, but it does not allow me to enter an email address, let alone several separated by commas. How can I adjust this? Thanks,

What is the precise error you are receiving from the server? Does it say it cannot authenticate with that username and password?
What do you have your SMTP server set as? Is it SMTPOUT.SECURESERVER.NET? If so, try these different ports.
SMTPOUT.SECURESERVER.NET:25
SMTPOUT.SECURESERVER.NET:80
SMTPOUT.SECURESERVER.NET:3535
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Cannot enter my full name in mail account preferences

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Backup Mail account settings before upgrade

I want to backup my account settings before I do a complete fresh install of the OS, to save having to setup all my e-mail accounts again.
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If you just need to backup your Mail account preferences, copy the com.apple.mail.plist file from Home/Library/Preferences to a separate CD or hard drive, along with your mail. Then restore it to the same location when you're done reinstalling everything else, before you start Mail.
OK, great the plist file...should have guessed that really
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My POP mail account is not working. I've had this computer a long time and I intend to get a new one
because it's so out of date but in the mean time I need to get this problem fixed. The problem is with the
password. I NEVER had to type it in. It was always in there in mail preferences/accounts (all in asterisks*****)
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indication of any mail account and password.When I click on "get mail" I get a prompt that asks for
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Thank u for your suggestions. I'm the only one who uses this computer but I do have another mail account with g-mail which I only opened after the POP account failed. I repaired the keychain access to no avail but it did say that there was "no problem" with the chain. I reset the chain and I still can't send or receive e-mails from my POP account. I called Time Warner cable and they said they thought there could be a problem on their end and they
were checking it out. But the problem remains that even if they fix the problem that is rejecting my e-mail password, I now have no e-mail password to type in. It used to be saved in Preferences and now it's no longer there. If I can't retrieve the password from somewhere (it's not on my keychain access list) I don't know how to get the password or create a new one. As a result of resetting the keychain I now have a keychain access password. But there's no POP account or any mail app in the keychain list to use it with.

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Hey.
I don't know whats up with this, but when I go to my mail account preferences and press the "-" (minus) it says that "The mail account [email protected] is shared by other applications on this mac. You can remove it from Internet Accounts" and offers me a button to go directly to Internet Accounts. When I go there - I don't see the account. I have several emails installed and I cannot delete a single one. None of them is showing.
Any help?

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Mail seemed to freeze up today - wouldn't send an Email - and when I quit and then restarted Mail, it came up with non of my POP Email Inboxes showing!
Just the .Mac Inbox was there - all other inboxes were no longer showing on the left.
Anyone seen this???
I checked my Library/Mail folder, and the POP inbox folders are still there - but Mail does not see them.
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Thx.
Chris.
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LOL, make me #4 because it happened to me as well. I was sending a mail message at the time and my computer completely locked up. No kernel panic messages, it just froze. After a restart and I launched mail all my email accounts except for my .mac were gone from my mail account preferences. Luckily my mail folder was fine, it seems the preference was corrupted. So my advice is to locate a com.apple.mail preference from your backup and replace your current one. Worked for me finally.
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My wife and I share a Macbook Pro, and both have our mail accounts set up using the Mail.app.
When I start the Mail.app, I can see and access both mail accounts even though we have seperate inboxes. Is there a way to separate these so I don't see her mail and she doesn't see mine?
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The correct way to do this is to create a separate account for each of you and disable automatic login when prompted. Under Accounts I would also activate Fast User Switching if the two of you use it at the same time. Then each of you will have your own user directory and this will segregate all of your user data into two separate user folders and you can act separately.
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