My email keeps asking for my password
When I bought my Mac Air, at the beginning of last month, my email address was being hacked into on a near constant basis (This had nothing to do with apple, it was all BT's fault.) Anyway, during those weeks, I had to reset and change my password all the time, also having to change it on my ipad, iphone and obviously my new mac. Since then, everything regarding my email has been sorted and i've had no problems with the account, but the email 'app' on my mac constantly asks for me to verify the password. It never tells me the password is wrong (which it isn't anyway) but everytime I log on to my mac, before I do anything, I get a little pop up that asks me to type in the password for my email, and it does that once or twice throughout my time on my laptop and everytime I log on.
I obviously did something during the time I was trying to fix my bt account but It's frustrating and I don't know how to stop it! Any help would be brilliant!
If your password is accepted, and Mail connects to the account, but you're prompted for the password repeatedly, take each of the following steps that you haven't already tried. Note: these steps don't apply if the server rejects the password. That's a different problem.
Step 1
When prompted for the password, check the box marked Remember this password in my keychain.
Step 2
Check that the keychain is working.
Step 3
Check that the default keychain is unlocked.
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