Why do I have to Quit mail to refresh my mailboxes on the iMac?
I have an iMac OS X Lion 10.7.4. A recent purchase.
I have an iPad and an iPhone (regrettably updated to 6.0 - don't like the map and can't stand the fact all my facebooks friend's birthdays have automatically gone into my diary!!)
I have a yahoo email account and have all my devices pointing to my yahoo address for email.
Until recently all my devices were generally sync'ed to yahoo. I say generally as the iMac keeps losing my email password and can't send or connect to yahoo until I re-type my email password - why?!!
Unfortunatly now in addition to the above my mailboxes on the iMac only refresh if Quit mail and restart it. It does not refresh automatically, not when I select Inbox or any other mailboxes for that matter.
I have checked my setting and that all seems normal.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Fataneh
Please forgive my ignorance.
I have found Keychain Access but I don't understand what I have to do next.
Which Category? Passwords?
Also which one is the mail server? imap.mail.yahoo.com or smtp.mail.yahoo.com (both have the same password)
or any other enteries?
Thanks for your help
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