Rejected password with RoadRunner (RR)

Over the past few months, I've had an increasing number of password rejections from my RoadRunner internet provider using Apple Mail. Frustration is growing. My password is being entered correctly, but it immediately throws up a dialog box saying "The POP server xxxx rejected the password for user xxxx". I've verified the password is correct.
In fact, today I got in touch with the RoadRunner tech guys. They had me change my password, but still it's rejected. Immediately at that point, RoadRunner blamed Apple and told me to talk to them instead and that there's nothing they can do. Uhh, sure.
It seems to happen once every few days. If I restart Mail immediately, the problem is still present. However, if I shutdown Mail for an hour or so and THEN restart, it will immediately pop my mail and all is well for a while. What the heck is going on? Anyone else with this problem? Am I hitting my pop server so hard that it locks me out for a period of time? It IS set to check once a minute.
Thanks!

While I know this question will seem unrelated, I think it can be. With the setup for the SMTP, are you using Password Authentication or None? Check this on both Macs, please. I ask this because I know that Roadrunner traditionally uses no authentication on the SMTP, but rather permission to use the SMTP is based upon the IP of the modem they provide, and in many cases attempting to use PW authentication on the SMTP has failed for many people. But recently one of my daughters who at home is on RR visited with her little netbook computer, and when she attempted to reply to one of her emails while connected to my network, she could not. I had to go into her server settings and select the box to Use the same server info as on the Incoming. At home that had not been necessary. So apparently, in some areas at least, RR has provided a SMTP that will work in locations other than the home connection.
This could have some interaction with the Incoming, and might cause some random issue with server authentication -- just a thought, but if not related, perhaps Thomas or you can comment on whether RR has made recent changes to use of the SMTP and authentication?
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