Repeated requests for email password

Every now and then (months apart) msn asks me to fill in my email password on my MBP (Lion) every 2 seconds or so for hours at a time - then it usually stops at some point on it's own - and starts doing it again arbitrarily. Has anyone heard of this madness? I have a 13" laptop from 2009.

try these two things:
1) in mail>preferences>general find out what option you have selected for checking mail, if every one minute, you may want to change to 5 minutes or longer, as the one minute change has been known to cause problems with asking/authenticating passwords.
2) go to your Keychain Access and find out if you have more than one password created for that email account, if so, delete so that you have only one, hopefully the right one
hope this helps

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