Why is mail keeps rejecting password

mail in 10.6 is saying my password is invaild but it's not how do I fix it so it won't reject everytime?

What are you doing when it tells you this? Verbalize, we can't see your Mac.

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Mail keeps rejecting my password.

I know that this has been asked like every single day. But i've spent all day trying to find a solution and can not find a single one.
For some stupid reason Mail on my mac keeps rejecting my password. Like to the point where i've deleted the account and it won't even let me connect enough to readd it. I've already wiped out my mac, reinstalled the software, ran disk utilitie, repaired persmissions, reparied disk, restarted in boot, ran mail doctor.. you name it. Nothing is working. I've had my mac for a little over 2 years, and my iphone 4 the almost the same amount. I have never had a problem until recently. I have a yahoo (ymail) account on both and just started experiencing problems on both of them. (Iphone4, I am not getting the emails pushed through.. even i turn off my phone/turn it back on i get like 20). I've even changed my password through the internet browser and i'll think its working until i Quit Mail and reopen and am asked for my password AGAIN! Please help!!
I am using Mac OS X 10.6.8, Snow Leopard.
Ps: I've already deleted the keychains and all of that, as i said i've completely wiped out the harddrive and am still having issues with it.

I saw someone on here said to log in to email via the yahoo.com website. So I just logged in with the email address that kept rejecting the password on mac mail, even tho it is an att email address. Now mac mail has stopped rejecting my password. Why is this? I don't know what IMAP is but I am curious about this connection.

I keep trying to access my mail but MAIL keeps rejecting my password. I am an AOL user. Please advise?

I keep trying to access my mail via the MAIL icon on my MacbookPro but it keeps rejecting my password. It worked find an hour ago but all of a sudden it won't work. I tried deleting the acct and re-adding it but still the same problem. The odd thing is I can send no problem.
I am an AOL user and am entering it correctly but it keeps rejecting I can access my acct via aol no problem
Okay now it's effecting my Iphone and Ipad accts.
Please advise?

So far as I can tell this is a server overload problem and Apple is working to fix things. I have had the same thing all morning and just now it cleared up, though not with AOL, but my iCloud mail. I was, of course, typing in the correct password, so the error message one keeps getting is very misleading, as the rejection has nothing to do with the PW. I think if we are all patient things will straighten out through the day. My mail is okay as of noon, crossing my fingers, but at least it is nothing I did wrong.

Mac mail keeps "rejecting" my password

I am repeatedly receiving a pop-up window that says Mail has rejected my sbc global password. I'll enter the password, submit and the window pops up again. Sometimes 3 or 4 times in a row. Obviously, I'm not receiving emails while this is happening ...
Anyone else experiencing this?
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This is often an indication not that there is anything wrong with you password, but that your ISP's password server or POP3 mail server is not responding to the query for mail by your client. It is a problem on the server side—not the client side—of the process, and there is little you can do about it other than…
• notifying your likely non-responsive ISP, or
• reducing the frequency with which your client queries for mail.
You can increase the interval from [for example] every minute, to 15 or more minutes, which will decrease the frequency. You do this in the General pane of the Mail Preferences dialog. You choices to Check for new mail: are…
• every minute
• every 5 minutes
• every 15 minutes
• every 30 minutes
• every hour
Just imagine how busy those servers would be if every user checked for new mail every minute they were connected!

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This is crap!
I have the most advanced laptop on the planet and all of a sudden, one of the core applications starts asking for a password EVERY push!
I have input and re-input the the password both on the Live site and in Mail ... this is getting OLD!

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In the last few days, my Mail has been acting bizarrely. None of the passwords are in the Mail Preferences / Account settings, and it also seems to drop the Outgoing server info. Regardless of how many times I re-enter those and save, once I'm out of the Mail Preferences / Account settings, they apparently disappear again.
I found a number of threads that seem to relate to Yahoo and AOL accounts, but I do not have any of these, instead: hosted domain email, gmail and an office.365 Exchange server. As I run my consulting business remotely from most of my clients, consistently working email is essential. This is really making work impossible! I've already ditched Outlook due to consistently having horrible issues, to the point of it erasing my identities after an automatic update (putting me out of business for several days as we had to rebuild my entire email).
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This problem has happened to me twice now.
I have my yahoo email account set up in my mac Mail. Recently I keep getting this message saying that Yahoo.ca IMAP server "imap.mail.yahoo.com" rejected the password.
My password is all correct and I checked "Remeber this password in my keychain" but it still doesn't work. This message keeps poping out everytime no matter whether Yahoo is trying to receive new emails or not.
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Hey I also have this problem, but I think I might have diagnosed the problem (temporarily at least).
I realized that ever since I started using the Mail app, I rarely logged in to my actual Yahoo account. When I logged into Yahoo account, my account was actually temporarily deactivated as I haven't logged in for more than 2 weeks. So I signed in, and everything went back to normal.
Now the Mail app has stopped asking me to key in my password (at least for the last hour, so I'm happy).
Hopefully this will work. If it asks again, I will just log into my Yahoo account online.
Cheers!

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We have various networked macs that all keep throwing up the error message:
The POP server rejected your password for user. Please re-enter your password
You click cancel and it disappears and checks fine but then it flashes up again. It's becoming more and more regular on most of our accounts.
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Most common cause is more than one entry in Keychain, or corruption.
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Resetting your keychain in Mac OS X...
If Keychain First Aid finds an issue that it cannot repair, or if you do not know your keychain password, you may need to reset your keychain.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1544
But of course it could be anything.

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Your profile may be out of date - this is the Lion forum.
I occasionally get a request to verify my account, but it usually occurs after the computer wakes up from sleep. And it is very very rare.

Mail keeps rejecting my password - no email access for 4 days :-(0

I have not been able to receive or send any mails from my mac or ipod touch. When I get onto the icloud. site I can see that my mails are coming through so it seems to be a port/server problem with mail settings.
Have tried every trick posted online - deleted old account and set it up again, changed port settings to 993 and reconfigured for imap.
Nothing is working.
Is anyone else having these problems? It's driving me bonkers.

Thanks for your input Csound but it's still not working ... argh!
I have changed password for extra strength and also done all the settings you mentioned. Still showing up as a greyed-out account in my mail program that can't go online.
This is how I have the account prefences set up:
And this is the advanced setting box:
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Super annoying problem that seems to have been going on from time immemorial - with no solution. Is anyone else familiar with this scenario?

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Can't log in to my (mobileme) email on Mail/Server rejecting password, Can't log in to my (mobileme) email on Mail/Server rejecting password

Hi all,
I went to check my email in mail last night and my mobileme account was offline. (Gmail account is online no problem). I clicked to take it back online, but it wouldn't accept my password. My parents also have this address on their mail (2 x macbook pros on lion, 2 x iphone 4, 1 x ipad4 -if this is relevant!) as its our main business account. The same situation was on their devices.
I came into the studio this morning and tried the following on my computer:
-Re-setting password on iforgot. (This took a few attempts as I can't use alternative email address as it doesn't work and is years old, and it kept telling me my security question (Bday) was wrong when it was correct...) I got there in the end and changed the password successfully.
-Went to remove keychain, but there was nothing there at all for the account
-Deleting account and re-setting up. This didnt work, as it wouldnt accept my password (new or old).
This happened a few weeks ago as well, and resetting the password and resetting the account worked.
I also did the same on my parents devices, and the new account was set up fine, so we can at least access the emails via their computers.
The differences between the computers, and what I'm guessing the problem is, I am on Snow leopard (10.6.8), on old version of mail (4.5) and obviously not connected to icloud. They are on lion and the latest versions of mail, and on icloud.
I desperately don't want to upgrade to lion as I run lots of expensive software off my machine, (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, after effects etc) and don't want lion to mess them up.
Do you think the fact i'm on such an old version is the problem? Why would the account have been taken offline on the other devices initally though?
I have had different messages popping up:
"The MobileMe IMAP server “mail.me.com” rejected the password for user...."
"Logging in to the MobileMe IMAP server “mail.me.com” failed. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then click Continue. If the information isn’t correct, you cannot receive messages."
And something about the certificate not being secure.
Sorry, this has been all over the place - very behind now and rushing!! Hope it makes sense and someone can help soon, as I need to send a ton of emails this afternoon off my machine! :-) Thanks in advance!!

comicstripper1 wrote:
I desperately don't want to upgrade to lion as I run lots of expensive software off my machine, (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, after effects etc) and don't want lion to mess them up. ...
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