Pittsburgh Andy

Q: Suddenly iMail won't play nice with my Hotmail accounts.  Help?

Yesterday I received a Security Alert from Microsoft that someone may have accessed my two hotmail accounts.  I have had one for 20 years and another I've had for 10 years for professional/job-seeking use, and I can't just walk away from them unfortunately, even though Hotmail has never really played "nice" with iMail, occasionally falling into that loop where iMail keeps asking for passwords, etc.

 

For both accounts I went thru Microsoft's routines of changing my password as well as adding Google Authentication to both.  For one I even added an "app password," which was new to me -- for that one I use a special/different password for my iPhone just for that account.  For some reason that option exists for only 1 of the hotmail accounts.

 

At any rate, iMail needed new passwords obviously but wouldn't take any of the new ones.  I deleted both hotmail accounts from iMail and re-introduced them.  iMail seems to receive mail from them no but won't send any.  Outgoing messages just sit in the Outbox. 

 

I have Lion version 10.7.5 and version 5.3 (1283) of mail, a few generations old since I'm limited with my 2006 mac.

 

Anyone recognize this and have any advice?  Thanks a lot.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on May 17, 2014 4:20 AM

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  • by peter_watt,

    peter_watt peter_watt May 17, 2014 1:25 PM in response to Pittsburgh Andy
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    May 17, 2014 1:25 PM in response to Pittsburgh Andy

    Some people archive all their to-keep mails on the Mac, whereas some keep them as folders in the online account, which I do, so they can as you say be accessed from anywhere on any device. Some people don't want MS or Google to keep their old mails and use local folders in Mail which Airmail is not strong on, in fact previous versions had a big bug on that.

    Overall Ii think Airmail has fewer bugs and is faster managing IMAP syncing.

  • by doug9163,

    doug9163 doug9163 Sep 8, 2014 1:51 PM in response to Pittsburgh Andy
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    Sep 8, 2014 1:51 PM in response to Pittsburgh Andy

    "The alerts arrived as texts to my iphone, from "837-401," and each time I changed my passwords yesterday (and just now, just to be safe), I received a confirmation text message from 837-401. "


    This text number has been reported numerous times as a bogus phishing scam.

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