Passwords in mail are disappearing...
My passwords in mail are disappearing. I feel this is not a bug but rather a malicious attack on my computer. I've tried everything I could think of but when I go to mail | preferences | accounts the passwords are gone. I use Keychain to store the passwords but to no avail they keep disappearing. Could I have a virus or malicious attacker doing this to me? I've tried everything I could think of with no luck. It's working fine at the moment but all of a sudden they disappear and not all at the same time as I have multiple email accounts setup through mail.app.
Help!!! Thanks!!
Passwords disappearing from both mail and keychain... odd.
It’s not that the password disappears from both Mail and the keychain. Mail saves your password in the keychain and nowhere else, reads it from there when needed, and apparently also removes the password from the keychain when it thinks is invalid...
I thought Keychain's function was to preserve and protect passwords not erase them.
The purpose of the keychain isn’t to preserve anything, but rather to make certain pieces of information accessible to authorized agents only. There is nothing wrong with allowing the agent that stored something there to remove it later.
The problem has nothing to do with the keychain itself, but rather with the fact that Mail sometimes assumes the password is invalid when that’s not the case.
Is mail 4.0 new for OS X 6.0 (Snow Leopard)??
Yes.
I could swear I had this problem prior to upgrading to Snow Leopard.
This I don’t know. I do know, however, that it happens in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but didn’t happen in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
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