Mail will not accept my password

I just got a new Macbook air with Mountain Lion.  Added my sbcglobal account to Mail and it was working fine.  All of a sudden I am getting a message that the password isn't correct and it cannot download mail.  The password IS correct (and had been previously working).  What is going on?

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