Mail asking for/not accepting passwork

I just started using this iMac again, after a nearly 3 year layoff as my wife is working at home and monopolizing the newer one. Mail won't download my emails even tho no settings have changed and the same email accounts are working just fine on 3 other Macs. Should I just delete the accounts and set them up again or is there a solution less drastic? Thanks.

Turned out to be related to a minor difference in the username. Thanks.

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Mail ask for the password all the time

Hello.
For the last month I´ve been experiencing problems with my mail. It ask me for the password every few seconds. I´ve have already tried all the solutions published at the help page in apple the site, but the problem is still on.
Could anyone of you give some help.
Many thanks.
PS: if someone could send me an answer in spanish, it could be easier for me.
Thanks.
IBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hola Luis.
I’ll reply in English, amongst other reasons because that allows me to copy & paste between posts, but let me know if there is something you don’t fully understand. You can post in Spanish if you want. BTW, you can make your life easier in these forums by going to System Preferences > International and moving English to the top of the list. The next time you launch an application, it'll be all in English.
Open /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access, choose Keychain First Aid from the application menu, and proceed to repair the keychain. If that doesn’t work, you may try removing the password entry from the keychain and letting Mail create it again.
Note that Mail often doesn’t correctly report what the problem really is. If Mail can connect to the server but cannot log into your mail account for some reason, it’ll ask for your password, regardless of whether that’s really the problem or not. Don’t keep entering the password every time, because that’s not the problem (click Cancel instead, and take the account back online afterwards).
Some ISPs refuse connection attempts if they are too frequent, for example, or limit the number of simultaneous connections that are allowed from the same IP address, or the account may have become full, or there might be a problem with the network, or there might be a problem with the server... If the latter (i.e. if there is a problem with the network or the server), the problem will probably fix itself after some time for no apparent reason.
Actually, if Mail asks for the password every few seconds, then you’re probably checking for mail too often, and that alone could be the reason you have this problem. What’s the time interval chosen in Preferences > General > Check for New Mail? If it’s set to Every minute, try changing it to Every 5 minutes.
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list.
Also, try using a different method to connect to Internet, if possible, or connecting the computer to Internet as directly as possible, i.e. bypassing any routers that might be present, using an ethernet cable instead of wireless, etc., and see whether that makes a difference.

Mail asked for a password each time it starts

I've used gmail (IMAP) for several months with no problems, until recently. Now Mail asks for a password each time it starts, then again when I try to send a mail. Despite re-entering the password and checking the box for the password to be stored, I'm prompted again the next time I re-start Mail.
I've tried several remedies described here in support discussions including:
1. delete the imap.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com entries in the keychain then re-enter the password via Mail.
2. run keychain first aid.
3. manually enter the passwords in keychain
4. use disk utility to repair all permissions
None of the above remedies have worked for me.
With some trial and error, I've discovered that setting Access Control for the two Keychain items (imap.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com) to "Allow all applications" (rather than the default "Confirm before allowing" with "Mail" as the listed application) does work.
So it appears that Keychain allows Mail to store the passwords but then does not allow Mail access to retrieve the stored passwords once Mail is restarted when "Confirm before allowing" is set.
Although now I have a "Work-around", does anyone have an idea of what's broken and how to fix it? Thanks.

OK. I tried the "Keychain Reset" and it did not work. The reset created a blank keychain file. I entered the mail passwords after starting Mail.app, then quit Mail. When I restarted Mail.app, it prompted again for the previously entered password. No change.
The clue to the problem is the current "work around". If I set "Allow All Applications" the Keychain allows Mail.app to use the stored passwords. Of course this defeats part of the security.
So Far...:
I've tried several remedies described here in support discussions including:
1. delete the imap.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com entries in the keychain then re-enter the password via Mail.
2. run keychain first aid.
3. manually enter the passwords in keychain
4. use disk utility to repair all permissions
5. reset Keychain Access.
None of the above remedies have worked for me.

HT3610 my incoming mail server is not accepting my password. How can I change it?

my incoming mail server is not accepting my password. How can I change it?

Contact AppleCare and speak to someone in account security.

The e-mail program will not accept my ID and password and won't let me change to new ones.

The e-mail program will not accept my ID and password and won't let me change to new ones. What do I do ??

Verify your credentials using webmail.

Mail asking for my password but won't accept it?

Hi I am having problems with my mail on my MacBook. It is asking for enter password for account, I put my assword in then it comes saying"the MobileMe imap server "mail.mac.com" rejected it"? Any ideas as this has never happened before?!?
Many thanks

Hi..
Launch the Mail app.
From the Mail menu bar click Mail > Preferences then click the Accounts tab then the Account Information tab.
Select your MMe account on the left then type in your password.
If that didn't help, open Keychain Access located in /Applications/Utilities
Select Password on the left.
Use the search field top right corner of that window to locate your MMe keychain.
Then right or control click the keychain, then click Delete.
Go back to the Account Information tab in Mail > Preferences > Accounts.
Type in the password. Click Yes when prompted to save that data to a new keychain.

Sending mail asks for password

I'm trying to send mail and no matter which email I use (I have multiple mac mail and my website mail linked to my mac mail) I get the pop up asking for my password I punch it in and it pops up again, it won't accept the password. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Are you sure that your outgoing mail server (SMTP) requires a passwort? Because if you try to authenticate with a password and the server does not "want" a password, this can result in errors.
Go to:
Mail --> Preferences --> Accounts ---> At the left side chose your account --> At the right side at the bottom chose Server Settings --> Switch "Identification" to "None"
Perhaps this works.
I have 5 mail accounts, only one really requires authentication on sending mail. The others don't. I had the same problems at the beginning.

Mail asks for password until exchange account is locked

I have a customer who uses Exchange, latest version.
They have 40 users still on 10.6.8, no problems with Mail or iCal.
When upgrading the computers to 10.9.3 we always get problems with mail.
It seems the Mail account is lost in the upgrade process. Sometimes even the local mail folders are lost and sometimes not.
On all of the upgraded computers the Mail account information is lost.
After setting the account up again, Mail always crashes first time.
Second launch causes the Setup guide to start again requiring the setup of the Mail account a second time.
Now the mail server won't accept the supplied password. It keeps asking until it is locked on the Active Directory. Unlocking and typing it two times or more may solve it, maybe another round of unlocking the account again.
If have seen this on 10 computers now.

Hi Ernie,
Normally my MacBook is off when I am on the road but I was not sure this time as I was testing the account settings on my new iPad.
So I switched off my Mac, started up my work PC and did send an email from my work account.
Then I did read the email from the iPad.
To make sure not to have issues with normal server delays I waited 15 minutes (would be normal also if I read my mail with iPhone/iPad on the road) to restart my Mac and open Mail:
It connected and downloaded the message without any questions for password.
So your suggestion may be right and in that case it is no issue to me.
I will set your answer to Helpful and keep the post open for some time to see if this really is solving my issue.
Thanks,
Menno

Instead of "Mailbox busy", Mail asks for password, long delay

We're testing Mail as a replacement for Eudora at my place of work. There is a POP account (not .mac) that is checked by five people. Using Eudora 6.x, if one person was checking the account, anybody else trying to check would get a Mailbox Busy message. Using Mail, you'd get an alert symbol next to the mailbox in the mailbox list, but next time mail was checked and the mailbox wasn't busy, it would work fine.
We just switched to a new mail server yesterday (on a Vereo host?) and now, though Eudora is behaving as before if the account is busy, Mail will pop up a box saying the password wasn't recognized, asking for the correct password, and then there's a loooong delay while it times out.
I presume the new server is sending some kind of busy message that Mail interprets incorrectly, but it's a show-stopper for us. Currently our options are:
1. Stop using a shared mailbox (my personal preference, but the actual users might not go for it)
2. Find out from the provider why the new server is causing this behavior (fat chance--they're likely to blame it on our weird Apple software)
3. Find out how to make Mail interpret the busy signal correctly.
4. Forward the account's mail to all the users' own addresses, instead of having them check that account themselves (am doing this now, will see how it works out. It will require more storage space on the server, at a minimum.)
I'm trying to find out if the server supports IMAP but in any case that would not be a workable solution for us.
Any feedback or enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.
--Colleen
Mac mini G4 1.25 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

"More Like this" entry " Phantom Mail Account won't let go! Steven Shmerler SASNET Design, New York Oct 10, 2011 7:56 PM" gave me a clue, which after 15 minutes without annoying message, seems to work.
Went to Mail Preferences/ Accounts/ Account Information/ Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)/ Edit SMTP Server List...
There were four (count them, 4) references to Earthlink. I deleted them, restarted Mail, and so far so good.
Thanks

Mail asks for MobileMe password

Yesterday, my Mac Mail began prompting:
The iCloud IMAP server “p13-imap.mail.me.com” rejected the password for user “lauralobo”
I can't access my mail, so tried changing my password, thinking I wasn't remembering it properly. I changed it on my phone. I attempted logging into iCloud.com mail through Safari. It didn't recognize my new password, so I reset it through Safari. Still, iCloud mail would not permit me to login. And asked that I reset my password. I had Reset Safari, and tried logging in using Chrome. I can still access my email on my phone, but now iCloud.com has disabled my account and continues to ask for a new password, again… and I am still locked out of my MacMail.
10.7.5, Mail version 5.3

Try going to System Preferences>iCloud, uncheck Mail, restart your Mac, then go back and check Mail again. This deletes, then adds back your iCloud email account.
Of course, if you can't sign in on iCloud.com because your iCloud ID is disabled, you'll have to fix that first. To do that, contact the Apple account security team and ask for assistance: Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security (be sure to ask for the account security team).

How do i stop Mail asking for Keychain password?

I have my Keychain set up with a password.
I'd like to allow Mail access to the relevant parts of the Keychain WITHOUT needing me to enter my password all the time.
How do I do it?
So far I've gone into Keychain Access, found my mail (IMAP & SMTP) passwords and added Mail to the list of applications to always grant access to, but it's still asking for my password.
Could it be due to my @me.com email? If so, what do I need to grant access to as I can't see any specific IMAP/SMTP me.com passwords.
thanks,
donncha

Back up all data.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
Select the login keychain from the list on the left side of the Keychain Access window. If your default keychain has a different name, select that.
If the lock icon in the top left corner of the window shows that the keychain is locked, click to unlock it. You'll be prompted for the keychain password, which is the same as your login password, unless you've changed it.
Right-click or control-click the login entry in the list. From the menu that pops up, select Change Settings for Keychain "login". In the sheet that opens, uncheck both boxes, if not already unchecked.
From the menu bar, select
Keychain Access ▹ Preferences ▹ First Aid
If the box marked Keep login keychain unlocked is not checked, check it.
Select
Keychain Access ▹ Keychain First Aid
from the menu bar and repair the keychain. Quit Keychain Access.

HT1631 Mail asks for password every 10 minutes

I suspect this is nearly the answer to my problem with Mail and Chrome in *10.6.8*, tho I have not recently changed my login p/w.
On my iMac with this configuration Mail will ask for my p/w every 10 mins or so, Chrome intermittently, and has done for months and is driving me mad! My MBP is fine.
Cheers, Colin

Hi, thanks for that, just found it in my Trash, which is a first for Apple Discussions with me.
Anyway I did a verify rather than repair and got:
Verification started
Checking keychain configuration for CC (user ID=XXX)
Home directory is /Users/XXX
Checked login keychain
Permissions incorrect on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rwxrwxrwx
Checked default keychain
Checked keychain search list
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/1Passwd.keychain
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/1Password.keychain
Checked contents of ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS/BBCiPlayerDesktop.61DB7A798358575D6A969CCD73DDBBD723A6DA9 D.1/PrivateEncryptedDatak
Checked contents of ~/Library/Application Support/Espionage/Espionage.keychain
Checked contents of ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS/BBCiPlayerDesktop.61DB7A798358575D6A969CCD73DDBBD723A6DA9 D.1/APSPrivateData/052B00379E6AE54ADE7AF005E8D5059Ck.dat
Problems were found; you should choose the Repair option to fix them
Verification failed
From the first bit in bold it looks as if you are correct, but it also says 'Problems were found …', so does it just give up listing after the first?
I think there only two Keychains I use, login and presumably System. The latter exists in Library/Keychains [which says it has not been modified for 10 months which also surprises me] and the former in ~/Library/Keychains last modified yesterday.
I assume I should copy them before messing?
Cheers, Colin

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I am looking to synch Notes on my Mac, iPad and iPhone and apparently need to create a separate e-mail address for iCloud just for Notes. I currently use my Apple ID to log into my iCloud account and since this is an AOL e-mail address cannot be used for Notes. I am concerned that this additional e-mail address will somehow become the default for more than just Notes and cause me problems. Can someone provide some insight?

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Apple mail asking for "update" of my credit card information. Could this be a fraud?

I received a mail from Apple, asking me to follow a link in order to update my information with Apple iTunes.
The mail looks very original and trustworthy, however, I don't understand what "account" I'm supposed to give my information to, nor do I recognise the email address being an apple customer service address, as it said: [email protected]
The link in this mail had the following address: apple.itunnes.tfain.com
In the left side of the form that also asked for details of name, address and credit card number, expery date, and security code, the following was stated below a red sign:
Attention Needed
Due to recent updates we are asking many of our customers to confirm their information this is nothing to worry about.
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Failure to comply with this may result in your account being suspended
Is this really coming from apple?

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Then delete the email.
Apple will never send you email asking you to update your credit card information.
Failure to comply with this may result in your account being suspended
That's just a scare tactic.

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Hello,
I have managed to setup a CalDAV and CardDAV server for local syncing of my iOS devices with Mavericks via Mavericks Server.
I wish to also sync notes.
I understand a mail server is required and I have been trying to set one up solely for notes sync.
After turning on the mail server I can sync notes to the server on my Mac but I cant figure out how to do it on the iOS devices.
Is it possible to setup a local mail server?
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Thanks for reply Simon.
I havent been able to find a guide so I have been guessing trying to setup the email server. Basically ive tried to setup a user email [email protected] (syncuser is also the account I use to sync my calendar and contacts)
I have turned on the mail server, made a new account on my Mac in mail:
Description: OS X Server
Email Address: [email protected]
Full Name: syncuser
Incoming Mail Server: myserver.local
User Name: syncuser
In the user account I have added the email address.
Im guesing I have to make the mail account somewhere in the server settings but I cant find anything. If turn off SSL in the mail settings I at least get a response from the server:
Unable to Connect
There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Verify the settings for account “OS X Server” or try again.
The server returned the error: The connection to the server “myserver.local” on port 143 failed (error 49: Can't assign requested address)

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