Must enter Mail password everytime I open mail App.

Please, anyone. What's up with this?? Everytime I open the mail application, it ask me for my password before it will check mail. I searched the help pages and only came up with a potential link to the latest upgrade 10.4.8, but NO FIX!
Does Apple know about the problem???
Any help appreciated,
Jeff

Jeff,
You appear to be saying the Incoming authentication and receipt of messages may be OK, you recognize that the request is related to the Outgoing -- is this correct?
Let me first observe that Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced provides the points to choose authentication of Incoming servers.
Secondly, let me ask if you are selecting the smtp.mac.com as Outgoing Server? If so, be aware that many ISP limit the relaying of third party SMTP on Port 25, so you should present the smtp.mac.com on Port 587, for best results, in most cases. I cannot yet tell if this is the situation you find yourself in, or not, but what SMTP are you using, and what Port have you assigned to it?
See also:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Dotmac/Mail/en/mac31.html
Although you are apparently not blocked, I think it could relate to the request for Password.
Ernie

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