Remember passwords in keychain

I have Apple's Mail program check my .mac mail, gmail, and sbc global mail, and everytime it asks me for a password for gmail and sbc mail. Every time I also check the "remember password in keychain" and it doesn't remember...It worked with I had my G3 iBook, but not with the G4 Mac Mini...is there something I'm doing wrong?

Nope. 10.4.5 has NOT taken care of it. In fact, it has become so frequent for me that I actually gave up and did a complete, clean system reinstall, created a new user account, and started over. And guess what? After about 3 hours of working correctly, this problem raised its ugly head again! Why can't Apple fix this after so many have had a problem with it? We have to use keychain -- we really have no choice. An on top of it all, keychain repair utility just keeps telling me "Keychain search list not properly configured." It doesn't repair it (although it says the repairs are complete). It just tells me there is a problem.
Bah! I'm going to have to switch to using web mail until this problem is solved, which really ***** for more reasons than I care to go into. I just can't keep dropping everything I do every 1/2 hour to enter the password. God forbid I'm actually typing a message, I end up typing a few words in the password dialog that comes up instead of in my message. Really, really bad problem, Apple, and no help in sight from what I can tell.
G5 Dual 2 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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FIXED! How I fixed Mail not remembering passwords, keychains, certificates

As noted in this lengthy thread, hundreds of users who upgraded to Leopard were experiencing their email accounts not remembering their passwords in Mail. Since the upgrade to Leo, I was seeing this, too. Every hour or so, I'd need to reenter all the passwords to all 8 emails that I had. I also was seeing odd keychain behavior with Safari. I'd need to re-enter passwords and certificates over and over again.
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1. I quit Mail & Safari.
2. I opened up Keychain Access (in Utilities) and deleted everything I possibly could. I initially tried to just delete Mail and Safari-related stuff, but that didn't work, so I deleted everything the system allowed me to delete.
3. I ran Keychain First Aid (Menu: Keychain Access). I re-ran it about 4 times until it couldn't repair anything further (there was a dozen things it said it couldn't change, but there you go).
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Two ways to store a password.
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My macbook pro isn't automatically connecting to wifi when I open it. I have to manually enter the password every time although I always click "remember password". PLease advise

My macbook pro isn't automatically connecting to wifi when I open it. I have to manually enter the password every time although I always click "remember password". PLease advise

Back up all data before proceeding.
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Select the Autofill tab.
Make sure User names and passwords is selected.
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For a long time now I've had a lot of trouble getting Safari to remember passwords for some websites.
I've resorted to saving some passwords manually to the Keychain and then looking them up and pasting them manually when I need them.
Yahoo.com and Apple's own Wiki Server are two prime examples. It's a real pain because my parents, for instance, don't end up logging into Flickr.com to see new photos because they forget their Yahoo password (yes, same problem, different computer).
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I believe that, like me and so many others, when you fork over good money for a superior product you shouldn't have to add additional software programs and products to make it work. If I wanted to do that I would have bought a regular PC, of which microsoft makes and comes with hundreds of additional programs to make it work. But we expect that when dealing with that product, not when you buy an apple.
And that comment barely warrants an answer. I forgot that Mac comes with no programs and Microsoft give you all your word processing, compression/expansion programs, etc. for free when you install. Wish I had such generous Microsoft/Windows sale stores here. If you want top of the range software to add to your Mac, then you pay the developers for it. Que Sera sera.
Now either perform some Safari maintenance or start your own thread to solve your problems rather than Thread jumping and piggy-backing off the OP's original topic about Passwords.
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On V4.0, I am unable to get Firefox to save my passwords for critical websites I use frequently. I have followed the recommended procedures to insure that I am asking Firefox to remember passwords.

I have gone to tools, options, security and have made sure that remember passwords is checked, but I never get the request to save the passwords when accessing websites requiring username and password. I am using Windows 7 Operating System.

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Make sure that you do not run Firefox in (permanent) Private Browsing mode.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Private+Browsing
*Tools > Options > Privacy: Use custom settings for history
*Deselect: [ ] "Always use private browsing mode"
You can also check that you aren't starting Firefox with a -private command line switch.
*https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options
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*Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
If you do not keep changes after a restart then see:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

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Firefox has a feature to remember my passwords, which is very useful. However, some sites mess with this so they won't save my passwords. In some cases these sites turn "autocomplete" off for the password field in their html; in other cases they appear to use some kind of javascript magic to stop me from saving my passwords.
First of all, why should websites try to stop me from saving my password? Do they really think its more secure if people have to write their passwords on stickynotes on their monitor to remember them--or worse, use the same password on all sites? I what way is it conceivably more secure? In any case it's MY business how I manage my passwords--not theirs!
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So my question is, how can I effectively make firefox remember ALL the passwords I want, when _I_ want to--and NOT obey evil websites that just want to practice CYA while actually making me LESS secure?

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https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password ''Has worked for me when I have needed it to save a password on a web site that used autocomplete=off.'' As far as the Bug that '''cor-el''' linked, I can't remember ever running across a website that did it like that.
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