Mail server is rejecting my password

Mail server is rejecting my password... I am certain that I am entering the correct password.... It appears as though I cannot recieve new mail or send mail. Please help!
It is a personal gmail account

Go into the mail account in Safari using the web portal and test the password there. Lynnpepe.com doesn't look like an email address.

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iCloud Mail is down. Has been for a while. I would hope this will be resolved soon.
I agree with you. iCloud does not seem to have anywhere near a 99.9% uptime. :-)

My email on my mac (which has iCloud) is giving me a message that the server has rejected my password. When I go onto the internet and sign into iCloud there, the password is accepted. What am I doing wrong??

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Please Help...Mail.app keeps rejecting my password

Hi,
It has been happening for a few hours and I don't know how to solve thnis problem.
It never happened before. I put the correct password, and still I get the pop up window saying " The mobileme IMAP server "imap.mail.me.com" rejected the password for user ....."
I can access my email via browser on the icloud site, but I need to fix the mail.app
Did the configurations for the smtp server changed or something?
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I think the outgoing is smtp.mail.me.com, use default ports 25,465,587, use SSL,
user name is the name without the @me.com, and a blank area for password right now.
In the account > advanced tab> I see Port 993, and Use SSL is checked and it has authentication by password. And the use IDLE command is also checked.
I wonder if that is becaues I'm using snow leopard but I have deleted the keychain thng many times, it won't fix the problem.
I tried to get email again and it gives me an alert that says " there may be a problemw ithe mail sever network. verify the settings for account etc,
the server returned the error: the attempt to read data from the server "imap.mail.me.com"failed. So this is what I'm getting now. That's a different message.
I don't know what's wrong with my computer.

My Mail application is rejecting my password even though I'm putting it in correctly. Mail is working fine on my iPad and iPhone but not my iMac so it must be something to do with the Mail settings on my desktop. My software is up to date. Can you help?

I have an iMac, operating system 10.7.4 with up to date software. My mail application is rejecting my password even though I know I am putting it in correctly. I have an ipad and iphone and the mail application is working fine on them. On my desktop however I cannot receive or send mail. I think it must be something to do with the settings but cannot work out what. I have contacted BT who provides my email and internet. As I have another email address with them that is working correctly they believe it is a problem with mail rather than with them. Please can you help?

OK Vicky, good clues...
See if this helps...
Open Keychain Access in Utilities, use Keychain First Aid under the Keychain Menu item, then either check the Password under that item, change it, or delete it and start over. See if there are duplicates, should be one for Incoming & one for Outgoing.
Resetting your keychain in Mac OS X...
If Keychain First Aid finds an issue that it cannot repair, or if you do not know your keychain password, you may need to reset your keychain.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1544

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We have a .Mac account with 4 email addresses on it. For some reason my wife's account works on the .Mac web page fine, but not on the Mac mail app.
She can get mail but when she tries to send, we keep getting a "the smtp server rejected the password for email.mac.com account"
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I may not be using the right password...never had to enter one to use me.com, but every now and then I would get asked for a password and I would just hit cancel and mail would work fine.

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Of late - something like the last three weeks - I have been getting a Mail error intermittently. There is no pattern that I can establish.
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<The POP server "POP.XXXX.ca" rejected the password for user "[email protected]" Please re-enter your password, or cancel.>
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You dont say your using Comcast but if you are here is a link to the settings for OSX 10.5.5
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maxbrandes wrote:
Since yesterday I have a problem with outlook 2010 and icloud mail. I did not change any settings, but since yesterday I can't send emails via outlook.
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outgoing server: smtp.mail.me.com   Port 587     TLS
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Hi All
Can anyone help me with this?
My POP email accounts on Hosting.365.ie do not use a password to authenticate outgoing mail. They rely on a prior authenticated download to enable the outgoing mail server.
On my MacBook Pro there is an option in the SMTP server settings under authentication for "none' and all my accounts work perfectly on the MacBook.
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I am sympathetic with your need to separate your lives. I have a client that accidentally got one of my alternate email addresses and cannot/will not update his address book with the "correct" address, despite my requesting several times over the course of a year. In any case, I don't think there is any way around this other than completely changing your email address. (If not a second Gmail, then Yahoo, Hotmail or other email provider.)
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I went to check my email in mail last night and my mobileme account was offline. (Gmail account is online no problem). I clicked to take it back online, but it wouldn't accept my password. My parents also have this address on their mail (2 x macbook pros on lion, 2 x iphone 4, 1 x ipad4 -if this is relevant!) as its our main business account. The same situation was on their devices.
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I also did the same on my parents devices, and the new account was set up fine, so we can at least access the emails via their computers.
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I desperately don't want to upgrade to lion as I run lots of expensive software off my machine, (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, after effects etc) and don't want lion to mess them up.
Do you think the fact i'm on such an old version is the problem? Why would the account have been taken offline on the other devices initally though?
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"The MobileMe IMAP server “mail.me.com” rejected the password for user...."
"Logging in to the MobileMe IMAP server “mail.me.com” failed. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then click Continue. If the information isn’t correct, you cannot receive messages."
And something about the certificate not being secure.
Sorry, this has been all over the place - very behind now and rushing!! Hope it makes sense and someone can help soon, as I need to send a ton of emails this afternoon off my machine! :-) Thanks in advance!!

comicstripper1 wrote:
I desperately don't want to upgrade to lion as I run lots of expensive software off my machine, (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, after effects etc) and don't want lion to mess them up. ...
You can continue to run most PowerPC software in Mt. Lion by installing Snow Leopard Server into Parallels 8:
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Apple is now selling Snow Leopard Server for $19.99 + sales tax & shipping costs at 1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753) - Apple Part Number: MC588Z/A (telephone orders only).

Can't send mail, get message: the smtp server rejected the password. I tried lock and unlock keychain. I tried unlock captcha. Gmail works okay, it is Mail that does not. Help!! :(

Can't send mail, get message: the smtp server rejected the password. I tried lock and unlock keychain. I tried unlock captcha. Gmail works okay, it is Mail that does not. Help!!

Hi
You need to check with your ISP whether or not the send mail server (SMTP) requires a password. Some do, but many do not. When you know the correct password to send mail, then you need to tell Mail as follows:
Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts > Select the account
Click on the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) combo box, and select Edit SMTP Server List...
In the Account Information tab put the server name
In the Advanced Tab, set up the authentication information from your ISP.
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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 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.
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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.

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