HT204187: If Mail on your Mac keeps asking for your password
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Q: Mac will not connect to outlook (hotmail)
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Jun 29, 2016 8:44 AMby Eric Root,Mail troubleshooting - Yosemite
Mail (Yosemite): If you can’t receive messages
Mail (Yosemite): If you can’t send messages
Mail not sending or receiving messages after updating OS X
Delete the password from Keychain Access (Applications/Utilities). While there, Keychain Access menu First Aid.
see post by Kappy
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Jul 2, 2016 3:23 PMby PatENic,Have you checked if your online account is enabled for POP3 access? For my hotmail account, I had to login online (at hotmail.com) and do the following:
- Once I logged in, I clicked on the "gear" icon and chose "options".
- Then, under "Accounts" I clicked on "POP and IMAP".
- Then, under "POP options" I said "yes" to letting devices and apps use POP (apparently the default is to say no).
That's it. After months of frustration, this worked for me.”.
