Mail rejecting password part two

someone else posted about this same problem
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=756013&tstart=30
Lately my internet has been running quite slow. But Mail still accesses my gmail and mac accounts. My other webmail account keep getting the password rejected. I can log onto it through Safari no problem at all.
This is extremely frustrating and seems totally illogical. It seems to have just suddenly changed without any reason.
thanks in advance for any advice.

If you’re experiencing Internet connection issues, it could be that there is something wrong with your networks settings.
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network > Show: Network Port Configurations, 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.

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TS3276 Mail rejected password to one of my 3 accounts with Gmail, all old. Successfully entered the account from Google mail interface. What's wrong?

I have had Mail for years. Have new MacBook Pro, set my old 3 accounts with Gmail, used them successfully. Yesterday, Mail rejected password to one of my accounts and does not accept it repeatedly. I entered this account from Gmail page, no problem, so my password is correct. Went back to Mail, this particular account is rejected. Checked all Mail preferences, all are the same as initially set. What is wrong?

In both cases, the default address is right. However, upon receiving the email, it says the wrong address. Thus, when people reply to my emails, I do not get it in my apple email, I have to sign in under the other (wrong) email address.

Mail rejects password

Hopefully some one can help me. I have comcast server, but i dont go on their site to check my email. I use my mail icon on my desktop dock to check it. So usually i click on the icon and check my email and when i go to send an email, a message comes up that reads -
*Enter password for Account "POP Account"*
*The POP server "mail.comcast.net" rejected the password for user "......(my name here")*
*Please re-enter your password or cancel -*
So then i usually put in my password and i dont have to do it again until i restart my computer next time. Well now the message is coming up every 3 or 4 minutes. I have the correct password. I called comcast and they verified it and i can go on comcast website and get my mail there but its easier to use the mac mail on my machine. anyone have a clue???

Trouble is, rejected Password doesn't actually mean that, LOL, one thing I read on this was somebody adding @comcast.net after the username fixed it.
I'm sure you've tried many things, but tough to tell out here what you've done.
Might try oine of these to setup an account to see if they work...
I use these two...
Eudora...
http://www.eudora.com/download/
Thunderbird...
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

HT1277 Switched from .mac to icloud & Mail rejects password

Switched from .mac to icloud and now mail rejects my password. Can't update user name to @me address either. What should I do?

Bruce Bob wrote:
Switched from .mac to icloud and now mail rejects my password. Can't update user name to @me address either. What should I do?
How did you do that? According to Apple, the system requirements for iCloud is OS X Lion 10.7.2 or later. You posted in the Snow Leopard forums and your system info is showing "Mac OS X (10.6.8)"

Mail rejects password and inbox is blank

Dear All,
I hope someone can help!
Earlier today my Mail was working fine: then it suddenly demanded my password. It rejects what I believe to be my password, and has emptied (seemingly) my Inbox. I can still gain access to it all through Mobile Me, but it isn't satisfactory at all!
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Roger

Under normal circumstances, each Mac owner has two accounts when they set it up: one is the Administrator (Admin) account, and the other is their own personal account. However, some people use the Admin account as their personal account, which is dangerous.
Even so, if you open your Finder window to look at the contents of your hard drive, on the left you'll see various icons; one of them is your Home folder and it has your username next to it. That is the folder to start at.. Click to select it, then to the right a new list will appear and choose Library from that, then choose Mail from the next list that appears.
Inside that Home/Library/Mail directory is a list of all your mail account folders. Since you have a MobileMe account, it could start with "Me-" or "IMAP-"; you need to remove that specific folder, then follow the rest of the steps I detailed previously.

My mac pro mail rejects passwords

two days ago my mail suddenly rejects all my passwords and won't send mail. i can receive mail but not send it.
macs seem to go mad for no reason. any tips on what has happened or how to fix this?
would appreciate any help as this is beyond frustrating and considering hurling laptop out of window.
g

I actually have it the other way thinking of my iDevices as windows into my mail and my MP as my main repository. I also set my devices to delete of server any mail I move from my devices inbox to minimize multiple deleting unwanted mail.
But the real issue was to be able to access all my stored mail on my MP when traveling. IMAP is a way to go, yes. But my concern, please educate me if I'm wrong, I have 6 email accounts. With POP I can drag any email from any account to the ame folder on my MP.
As I understand IMAP each account would have its own sets of folders. So where I have "Work" ot "ToDo" folder that hold all mail regardless of account, I couldn't have one folder "Work" and drag all mail to it because folders are created per account, per ISP (and I have multiple accounts from various ISPs).
So I'd have to have a Work folder for each IMAP account and have check each instead of one the way it's set using POP - ON MY MAC on my MP.
If I'm right abou this, then using a remote app like SplashTop 2 to use any device to login to my MP to read, reply, delete, store, then is a great solution since I'm actually working on my MP remotely. Only problem would be if I forgot to turn my MP on before traveling.
Am I on the right path?

Mail rejecting password and has now locked me out

Anyone else experience this:
Computer goes into sleep mode with mail program was still open. Upon being reactivated from sleep, the pop-up window says password for the mail account has been rejected.
I've typed in the password (accurately) and it was rejected. I typed the password in again, but it was rejected. This nonsense continued enough to where the account disables and now I cannot get back in.
Alas, I cannot reset the password because I cannot remember the security question answer. But the real issue is the program rejecting the password when I never logged out of mail.
This is a mess, since Apple is utterly hard-headed about a security question I created 8 years ago. And my credit cards have changed since then, as well, and I don't have access to those numbers.
This account originated as a mac.com, which was changed by Apple to .me and mobile me and icloud. This is f'd up.

Welcome to the Apple community.
If you mean that Find My Phone is asking for a password to a different Apple ID to your current Apple ID and that ID is a previous version of your current ID, not an entirely different one.
This feature has been introduced to make stolen phones useless to those that have stolen them.
However it can also arise when the user has changed their Apple ID details with Apple and not made the same changes to their iCloud account/Find My Phone on their device before upgrading to iOS 7, or if you restore from a previous back up made before you changed your details and some other circumstances.
The only solution is to change your Apple ID back to its previous state with Apple at My Apple ID using your current password, you don’t need access to this address if it’s previously been used with your Apple ID, once you have saved these details enter the password as requested on your device and then turn off "find my phone" and delete the account from your device. It may take a short while to remove the account.
You should then change your Apple ID back to its current state, save it once again and then log back in using your current Apple ID. Finally, turn "find my phone" back on once again.
This article provides more information about Activation Lock.
This is answer is provided from my own database of boilerplate responses and the content was last reviewed and tested on: 2014/05/23
You should still be able to log into an old email account, even if you haven't used it for some time, very few providers delete email accounts.

Mail rejecting password

Hey there, I'm having a problem. I've been using mail with a .mac email address for three years. Yesterday, out of the blue I got the following error message when I try to send any message:
The SMTP server “smtp.mac.com” rejected the password for user “mstuman”
I've tried to enter my password in the dialog box that shows up, re-enter my password on the preferences page, restarted mail, rebooted whole system.
Has anyone else had this problem and fixed it?
Peace,
mstuman

Open /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access, then Window > Keychain First Aid, 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 the next time it asks for it.
Note, however, 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 — just 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 there may be too many messages on the server and Mail times out before the server responds, or there might be a problem with the network, or there might be a problem with the server...
Do you access this account from more than one computer or some other way (e.g. webmail) while Mail is checking for mail?
What’s the time interval chosen in Mail > Preferences > General > Check for New Mail? If it’s set to Every minute, try changing it to Every 5 minutes.
If this is a POP account, what are your Preferences > Accounts > Remove copy from server settings?
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. Leave checked (enabled) only the port configuration needed to connect to Internet and Built-in Ethernet (in that order if not the same), uncheck (disable) the rest of network port configurations and see whether that helps — if it doesn’t, turn ON again the ones you want enabled.
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.), or shutting down both the computer and the router/modem used to connect to Internet, restarting, and see whether that makes a difference.
You may also want to check with the provider of this account in case they’ve made some changes recently that could have a bearing on this.

Mail rejects password, why??

Mail has been working like a charm all year then, about 2 weeks ago occasionally the message pops up " the POP server rejected the password for user [email protected] Re enter your password or cancel"
I choose cancel, click on "get mail" and it works just fine, I get new mail.
This is an intermittent problem, not 100% of the time.
I use Mail 2.0 and sbcglobal.net, DSL connection.
I have repaired permissions, etc. etc...
What is going on?

I wouldn't place all blame on Apple just yet.
Although this is a checking an account for new mail problem, not long ago SBC decided to block the use of all SMTP servers outside of their netork on Port 25 and conveniently neglected to inform their customers beforehand.
SBC customers were required to "opt out" of Port 25 blocking or use SBC's SMTP server to send mail with any email accounts not provided by SBC.
Point being, SBC made a major change without informing all or most of their customers beforehand so I wouldn't rule out SBC having a problem or contributing to the problem at this point.

HT204187 outgoing mail rejects password on one computer but not the other

The mail program says the outgoing mail password is incorrect on wife's desktop computer, but mail works from her iPad.

I, too, have the same problems as listed above. I have changed my password in my mail account several times. Each time my iPhone and iPad accept the new password and is able to send/receive mail. My macbookPro rejects it each time. I have tried deleting it from keychain...still did not fix the problem. Any other suggestions?

Yahoo mail rejects password but only on iMac

Hi,
I have an Intel iMac and loving it, I bought it last December and Apple mail was just perfect. But recently every day I get an error message saying Yahoo has rejected my password and to re-enter, with an option to save in keychain. The password keeps being rejected but if I go into Yahoo mail on Safari then all seems fine and Apple mail works. I also have an iphone and ipad and these are fine, no password issues at all.
I know there has been a Yahoo update recently and I thought it could be that but then surely the iphone/ipad would also be affected. Equally there has been Lion updates and it all started around that time.
I have tried deleting the password in keychain and starting again, no help. I have deleted the email account and stated again, no help.
I am at my wits end trying to figure out what to do next. Any help or advise would be welcome.

Well, this time last night I thought BT had fixed the issue by creating the POP account. BUT this morning when I started it all happened again but now on both IMAP and POP !! so double the annoying messages.
Finally called Apple support as I have Apple Care I thought I should use my investment. Very helpful and patient guy, he said the issue was either software related or user set-up, to identify which we created a new User called TEST, so a virgin system, I then let the system create my email just as I did when I first got the machine last year and had no issue then. He then suggested that I try to use the new TEST user for my emails for a few days. If the issue returned then it is likely to be software, if not then likely to be user set-up/corruption somewhere.
So, I will let you know how I get on.

TS3276 MAIL REJECTS PASSWORD?? What is the solution??

When I go to get mail ,Mail reponsed requesting my password. I have enterd password password but is rejected. To isolate the problem I went to my PC and was able to get my mail. I'm looking for a fix.

Robert,
You can try going to Applications>utilities>Key Chain Access, repair key chain.
If still no joy, you try deleting that account from the chain and let mail recreate it click remember this password in key chain.
Hope this helps

Yahoo mail rejecting password

I just changed my password on my Yahoo mail account (not Yahoo Plus), and now cannot login via Mail.app anymore.
Prior to the password change, everything worked fine: IMAP setup and no issues.
I've checked and re-checked the password, including deleting all occurances in the Keychain in case there was any old data hanging around. I can log into the account using Yahoo's web interface, using the NEW password which I've literally copied and pasted both there and into Mail.app from the same source.
In Mail.app, I see
Pasting the password in doesn't do anything other than close the dialog and have it pop right back up again. Checking the "Remember this password in my keychain" also has no effect.
I've deleted the account in Mail several times, and generated the new account using the automatic settings in System Prefs->Mail, Contacts, and Calendars for a new Yahoo account.
incoming mail server is: imap.mail.yahoo.com
server name is: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
MacBook Pro, 10.7.2, Mail 5.1
I've found other similar threads, but nothing helpful. Anyone know what I'm missing or what I might be able to try?

Just to close the loop on this: I was able to get it to work.
I created a brand new Yahoo account, and was able to do the setup in Mac Mail with no problem.
Since the only change had been my password, I investigated a bit and found that the length of the password was causing the problems.
I shortened the password to under 20 characters, and everthing started working again.
So, apparently, Mac Mail truncates strings in the interaction with Yahoo. The web interface worked fine, and the iPod Touch did too, just the Mac had the problems.

Apple Mail and gMail (part two)

When I first set up Apple Mail for my new gMail account, I sent a reply to one of the first emails that were downloaded and cc'd myself because I wanted to see what the file I attached looked like to the other guy. That message has been sitting in my gMail inbox for a week now and won't download. gMail support has not responded to me and I haven't been able to find any kind of setting on gMail that might control this. I also sent myself a couple of test messages during setup that are also just sitting in the inbox.
Anyone here experienced this too?
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This is a Gmail issue. Mail has no bearing on it. Gmail POP access doesn’t work like a normal POP mail server would. Here are some of its idiosyncrasies:
1. Messages downloaded by any conventional POP mail client are marked as downloaded at the server (but not as read on the web), and no longer available to either the same or any other POP mail client.
2. To make already downloaded messages available for POP access again, you must go to Gmail’s Settings > Forwarding and POP page, select Enable POP for all mail, and click Save Changes, which causes everything (and I mean everything) still on the server to be downloaded again.
3. The Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings have absolutely no effect on the messages stored on Gmail’s server. Gmail ignores any requests to delete messages from the server made by a POP client. What happens to the messages on the server after a POP client has downloaded them is determined by Gmail’s Settings > Forwarding and POP > When messages are accessed with POP setting alone. In the case of Gmail (and only in that case), I recommend turning OFF Remove copy from server in Mail, so that Mail doesn’t even try to remove any messages from the server, regardless of whether you do actually want already downloaded messages to be removed from the server after some time or not.
4. Messages sent using the web interface will be downloaded by your POP mail client as if they were received messages. Although this may seem weird, it's good because it allows archiving all messages locally in Mail, regardless of how they were sent — as long as you don't access the same Gmail account with more than one POP mail client, that is. You can set up a rule in Mail to automatically route those messages to the appropriate Sent mailbox (or to any other mailbox for that matter) if that's what you want.
5. Messages sent using a POP/SMTP mail client such as Mail are also treated as if they were incoming messages for POP purposes, just as in #4. What prevents them from being downloaded is that Gmail marks them as already downloaded immediately. Since they’re on the server nonetheless, already sent messages would be downloaded together with all the other messages on the server if proceeding as described in #2.
6. A particular case of #5 are messages sent to yourself. Instead of putting a copy of the sent message in the server’s Inbox and making it available for download, both the sent and the “received” message on the server are actually one and the same, and hence, cannot be downloaded via POP for the reason explained in #5.
7. Gmail allows POP accounts to be set up in a special way that avoids some of these issues while introducing others. If you only need POP access to the last 30 days of mail, you can configure Mail in “recent mode”, as described in How should I use POP on mobile or multiple devices?, i.e. by typing “recent:” (including the colon but not the quotes) at the beginning of the User Name field (not in the Email Address field) in Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Account Information. Configuring the account this way would allow Mail to download messages marked by Gmail as already downloaded (and download messages sent to yourself in particular), but it would also cause all sent messages (not just messages sent to yourself or through webmail) to be downloaded as if they were received messages.

Mail and Exchange 5.5 Server (Round 2) "Rejected Passwords"

Mail and Exchange 5.5 Server (Round 2) "Rejected Passwords"
This one is huge, as you may have seen in my other replies to Mail and Exchange Server, I have had this working for over a year no issues.
Every once in a while I get a user that I setup and all of the sudden their password on the Exchange (5.5) Mail server (running IMAP, OS X Mail app)
is REJECTED.
This is just no good, and still to me a Mystery.
Has anyone seen this?
It seems there is some corruption happening on the Exchange Server, with the users accounts, preferences, settings.
The one way to fix it, (that I have seen) and the Windows server guys hate this, but I say too bad, completely move the afftected User's Exchnage e-mail account to another Exchanage NT mail server (they have 6 old NT 4, Exch Servers), once that is done, Mac OS X Mail app connects fine and ha no more issue with Rejecting passwords.
Any feedback appreciated, thanks,
[email protected]

I think I have the same problem without Exchange involved. I have seven different email accounts and two of them are acting like you describe: changes like deleting doesn't reflect on other clients (like mobile phone email client and webmail).
This also happens with read emails showing up unread so that if the email is been read and deleted same message can appear as new and when that message is deleted I can see two separate items of that same email message.
Also all marks of reply, forward or flagged are gone when the email show up as new again.
My service provider said that updates to Mail.app have previously made some big changes to way how it acts with email servers and thought that Mail is misbehaving with my two email systems.
I am using IMAP protocol with all accounts.
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