Repeated requests for hotmail password

My son's new macbook is set up to get hotmail (paid account, POP settings), and it works just fine EXCEPT that mail.app asks for his password every few minutes or so. Does anyone know why, or how to make it stop?

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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