Password rejected on apple mail constantly

This has been happening to me for two weeks now (coincidentally around the same time I got an iPhone). Here is what I have tried: disable mail account on iPhone while at work, repair permissions on my Mac, repair keychain, remove pop account and try a new pop account with the same email alias... None have worked. I check around 7 pop accounts in mail and it only happens with one- unfortunately it is my main account for work.

I've experienced the same thing for a few weeks as well. I've been on the phone with ATT with the same results. Sometimes the password works fine and then sometimes it doesn't work at all until I restart mail. It's driving me crazy! What to do?

As great as is UNIX/OS X, it IS complicated technology, which is not always seamlessly operating. Also, the service providers make upgrades in their systems, too, and frequently are "cutting edge." Your system may work quite properly, or quickly enough. If you have carefully set up your settings and double checked them, then probably it is not your fault, but who really knows!!!! Spontaneous regeneration is alive and well!

One trick which sometimes works is to shut everything down, let it sit for a few minutes, and then restart everything up in the proper order.

How often do you have the interval for checking for new mail set to? Is it at least no more often than 5 min? Did this happen before you had the iPhone?

Ernie

Mail checks every 5 minutes. For me, it started happening the day after I got my iPhone. I thought that there was a conflict of sorts between the iPhone and my iMac's Mail so like I posted above, I shut off the account on the iPhone while at work, but it didn't help.

Perhaps it is not the iPhone but one of the software updates I had to do in order to activate the iPhone?

[Hmmm. Meant to say above: "Your system may NOT work quite properly, or quickly enough."]

I was having the same problem with my password being rejected. I resolved it by giving my iPhone its own email address then forwarding my normal email address to that address.

I am using ATX for our work email and wanted to get that email on my iPhone. ATX has a web console that allows me to add or delete email addresses for our company.

Is is possible to get another email address for your phone?

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I thought it was just my computer. It's frustating, constantly haveing to input my passeord, and sometimes it doen't take. Then i'm left with an inverted triangle with a question mark. I hppe this gets resolved soon.

This has been a long term issue for me - though for me it only occurs occasionally. I have learned to always click cancel (and not bother re-entering the password). Usually, for me, the next time it tries it works. Sometimes (presumably if the mail server is having problems) it happens repeatedly, and then eventually it resolves itself.

This happens on my Mac, my wife's Mac, and a few days ago my sister bought her first Mac (different address, different ISP) and she has just reported having this problem too. I've had nothing to do with my sister setting up her Mac, so it can't be anything I've done!

It isn't just AT&T. I have Cox an I have the same problem. Had it before the iPhone. I have a proxy server with the same issue. The most frustrating part is after all my efforts to work with Apple, they just don't seem to care. Sorry, I don't know what to tell you isn't what consumers want to hear.

I have been having a similar problem on our two Macs (iMac & MacBook) for a couple of weeks. I have at&t Yahoo! DSL and the password rejection problem really seemed to start with regularity when at&t changed their setting to require use of SSL on the specified ports. I have tried lots of things including repairing my Keychain, deleting and re-building my Mail account, and repairing permissions but I may have just stumbled onto a fix.

I think there may be a conflict between Mail's password authentication with the SSL and Keychain. I deleted all Keychains that had anything to do with at&t (POP, SMTP etc) and although it hasn't been very long, the tests I have done indicate the non-remembered password problem may be fixed. In the past when I tried deleting the keychains, I would always choose to have Keychain remember the password if the box would pop up. I think this may have been perpetuating the issue if indeed it is a conflict with Keychain. Don't know if it's a long term fix, but looks promising so far. If anyone else tries this and it works please let us know.

Thanks,
JMcK

Did everyone update their AT&T Yahoo Account settings in Mail with the new 995/465 SSL values and Mail Server values?

There seems to be an issue with these new values. Not just for Mail users.

I am trying to get some more information on this issue from AT&T.

Bonnie

Anyone get anywhere with this problem? It is driving me insane as it now happens on my work and home computers.