This is more of a Mail question but mail is not listed under the discussion topics. I have to keep entering my passwords for my POP mail accounts every hour or so. Isn't keychain supposed to remember them and take care of that?
Same thing happened to me.
As soon as I had set up my mac to sync to MobileMess all my Mail passwords went bye-bye.
Now every time I open Mail I have to enter 12 passwords since I have 12 accounts.
Not just annoying - darn irritating I would say!
Your post got me thinking that maybe if I sync the keychain the problem will stop so I have tried that. Before I was not syncing the keychain. I will let you know if it helps.
This just started for me yesterday--and I've made no changes to account settings and I don't have a MobileMe account. Mail takes the account offline until I enter the password (or I click on the lightning bolt to put it back online). Weird.
Yes.. that is the same version I am using... This morning since I have Office 2004 I've switched to using Entourage with the same Comcast account and the others mail accounts and so far have had no problems with Entourage and paswords... hmmm
Well, syncing the keychain with Mobile me did not help.
And I see that Entourage came up. I have been trying to get on Mobile Me chat support for a week to see if Mobile Me will sync outlook with entourage or if it only works with mail. Anyone know? Being new to Mac, is there any reason to use Mail over Entourage???
I've been having the same problem with all 4 of my Comcast accounts using MacMail. I have been in touch with Comcast, and they tell me it's a Mac problem (of course). I think this all DID begin when my .mac converted to MobileMe. I've done everything I know to do with my passwords in the keychain and it's still requiring me to enter a new password, etc. This is VERY annoying. Has apple addressed this issue at all.....anywhere?
Well what can tell you about Mail and Entourage,... Mail seems to be better integrated with OS X, and other Mac programs and since it is included with OS X - It Is Free!
To me Entourage has more the feel of MS Outlook so if you were a Win.. user you would most likely prefer it more. Entourage does have some sync services, ie: contact, iCal events, and notes with .mac, so I guess .me would also work, I don't use .mac/.me so someone else would have to fill you in there... this is my .02 worth.
I have to say that I got on Apple Support Chat about 2 hours ago and it said 27 minutes to wait. it got down to 2 minutes and then jumped back to 10 and I am now at 7 minutes. I left Microsoft for this????? This stinks!!!!
This Problem is Starting again! Ever since the last iPhone, iTunes, etc. update, a couple of days ago... I don't use iPhone.... so must be something that Apple is doing... ????