Confliction errors with iPhone and Mac Mail

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Confliction errors with iPhone and Mac Mail

I am having constant issues with the iPhone causing my Mac Mail to dislay "The POP server *** rejected the password for user *******" dialog box when the iPhone and/or any of my computers try to pick up mail at the same time on the same accounts. The password and user name are correct. Has anyone found a setting to enable multiple computers and iPhone to collect mail from the same accounts without issue? Does this same issue happen with Entourage?

G5 Dual 2.0GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.5), MacBook Pro 17 / MacBook 13 2GHz

Posted on Oct 22, 2007 6:30 PM

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Oct 22, 2007 6:54 PM in response to jbareham

A POP account is not designed to be accessed by multiple email clients at the same time and the email client used makes no difference in this regard at the incoming mail server for the account.

This is usually not a problem with an IMAP account. I don't have this problem with my .Mac account - the Mail.app on my PB runs 24/7 checking my email accounts for new messages every 15 minutes. Since using the iPhone to access my .Mac account and a business POP account, the POP account on my PB is taken offline but not my .Mac account. I've accessed my .Mac account with both at the same time with no problems.

If you are unable to switch to an IMAP account, you will need to turn off having the POP account checked for new messages automatically by the Mail.app.

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