Not again! MacMail keeps requesting my password and rejecting it!

While composing an e-mail, my MacMail began repeatedly asking for the password for my second mailbox (different password than for primary mailbox). When I enter it, it keeps rejecting it. I tried the password for my primary mailbox, but it rejects that too. This is the second time this has happened! Yes, I'm pretty much computer tech illiterate! And yes, I'm embarrassed to say I can't remeber how it was resolved last time. If anyone can help, I'll save the instructions this time!

Unfortunately when he ran Keychain First Aid it showed there were no problems.
When I finished phoning him Mail was still requesting and rejecting passwords.
I have a feeling that whenever it has happened to me I have given up in despair only to find that a day or so later things are back to normal, which would suggest a temporary problem at the ISP's end.

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I have just been phoned by a friend with an early G5 iMac running OSX 10.3.9.
He's been having slight problems with Mail for a while but now it has refused to send emails.
Whenever he tries he gets a window requesting the password for the account but each time it says that the POP server has rejected it.
He is adamant that he is using the correct password.
I have had this happen occasionally but can't remember how I resolved it . . . . I even suspect it may have cured itself a day or so later.
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