Mail not remembering password
Since the 10.5 upgrade, Mail continues to ask for my password when it goes out to check mail even with the "save" box checked.
I ran Keychain First Aid.
Message was edited by: DannyMike
I had the same problem every once in a while with Tiger and now with Leopard. Sometimes, it works properly, i.e. remembering the passord. Sometimes, I am asked for my password repeatedly whether I check the "save" box. I have two different e-mail providers (gmail.com and gmx.net). I only get the troubles with the second one from time to time over a period of time.
I could "fix" it with the following workaround:
Mail > Preferences > General > Check for new mail: every 5 minutes.
Before, I had had set it to "check every 1 minute" what often resulted in the "loss" of the password.
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FIXED! How I fixed Mail not remembering passwords, keychains, certificates
As noted in this lengthy thread, hundreds of users who upgraded to Leopard were experiencing their email accounts not remembering their passwords in Mail. Since the upgrade to Leo, I was seeing this, too. Every hour or so, I'd need to reenter all the passwords to all 8 emails that I had. I also was seeing odd keychain behavior with Safari. I'd need to re-enter passwords and certificates over and over again.
From reading the above thread, a couple posters had come up with a fix. I modified it slightly, and for the past 3 days, everything has worked perfectly. Note that I'm no geek, don't really get why it worked, and basically attacked this like a man with a shotgun shooting a mouse. So what I did may break your system or cause you to die from cancer. But here's the steps I did that eliminated the problem
1. I quit Mail & Safari.
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3. I ran Keychain First Aid (Menu: Keychain Access). I re-ran it about 4 times until it couldn't repair anything further (there was a dozen things it said it couldn't change, but there you go).
4. I then hooked up a second Mac, via Firewire, that had recently had a clean install of Leopard on it. I dragged the Mail app file over into the applications folder had it replace the existing Mail app.
5. I did the same with Safari, replacing the existing Safari app file.
(NOTE: I hear you can do essentially the same thing for steps 4 and 5, using your original Leopard install discs and a program called Pacifist, but that was more techie than I felt comfortable with. But I hear it does the same thing as copying over clean virgin copies of Mail and Safari, as I did in steps 4 and 5)
6. I then repaired permissions (via the Disk Utility in Utilities). I think this step is a little like smudging with sage, or chanting, but in fact both the new Safari and the Mail app needed thousands of repairs, so perhaps this wasn't as voodoo as suspected.
7. I then restarted the Mac. Upon opening up Mail, I did, of course, need to re-enter all of the passwords again. But that was it. That was 3 days ago, and I've been groovy ever since. I've restarted the apps, and restarted the Mac numerous times. So far, all passwords and keychains and certificates have remained solid.
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http://www.braintoniq.comDid you copy both key3.db and signons.sqlite to the profile folder?
You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:
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It is possible that there is a problem with the files key3.db and signons.sqlite that store the encrypted names and passwords in Firefox.<br />
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Why was "Mail not remembering passwords" thread locked out?
The problem wasn't resolved, yet the thread has been locked out! Does Apple monitor this board? If so, could someone from Apple at least acknowledge that there is a Mail-related problem and that someone is looking into it? The problem wasn't resolved with the latest Leopard release and even a cursory reading through the aforementioned thread reveals a lot of very frustrated users!
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* Create an allow cookie exception (Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: Exceptions) to keep such a cookie, especially for secure websites and if cookies expire when Firefox is closed.
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Firefox not remembering passwords or usernames. Have done all that's suggested, still no luck.
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Mail not remembering Account Passwords
Sorry to add to the list of things not working, but...
My Mail doesn't seem to want to save it's passwords. I keep having to re-enter them each time I reopen Mail.
I've checked Keychain Access and it doesn't seem to be the cause of the problem, even tried repairing it to no avail.
Anyone else having this trouble?So I tried all the keychain stuff, loaded the new 1.0 patch, ran permissions and disk repair from the install CD and still... I have tried deleting mail accounts and adding them back, it asks for passwords and all but does not retain them. HOWEVER, in my non-administrator account I can create and save mail settings and passwords just fine, and on my G4 Powerbook when I loaded 10.5 it kept the passwords and works fine.
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The problem started with changes in the user name and password, or with changes in the login URL.Thanks for your second reply. The problem is apparently in the Firefox software, since it occurs with all Mac users even though their personal information is different. In other words, the problem follows the website.
I have been unable to find a systematic way to duplicate the problem. It initially occurred while I was changing user names and passwords. I didn't want to update some of the changes in the "saved passwords". My recollection is that I ignored the "Remember password" prompt. URL's were changed. The "Remember password" prompt no longer appeared, and did not reappear when returning the the web sign-in page.
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I have read the recommended reading; none seem to apply. For one of the sites, I was able to produce a pull down list for user name. However, the Shift + Delete action produced no change. -
New HP laptop, O/S XP-Pro, my previous computer with XP-Pro had no problem remembering passwords but this v of Firefox will not remember the PW's
Thanks Cor-el. It now works on some sites, but there are still some where it doesn't work. The problem appears to be with sites that have more than just the username and password to fill in. Firefox only saves the username and password but not the other fields. It then refuses to fill in any of the fields on the site.
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I mean that if I go to a site and enter a username and password, I am not prompted to remember the information and if I am, when I close Firefox and reopen and go back to the site, the information is blank, nor does it appear if I start to type the first few characters.
If I go into the password manager to look for sites that should have password information there is nothing in the box.
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