Pop Sever Rejected my Password

For Verizon email servers at least, the problem seems to have been fixed as of today. See my 12-04-2008 posting in
http://forums.verizon.com/vrzn/board/message?board.id=FiOS_Internet&thread.id=10 18

If you're a Verizon user and you've set your Mail.app preference to use the unsecure "Password" option, I suggest you try setting it back to APOP, which is secure.

If you use Comcast or another ISP for email, try to convince them it's their problem and to fix it.

Thanks for the update Jerry!

Thanks very much, Jerry. Very useful information. I've changed back to APOP and it seems to be working.

The problem with Comcast mail and smtp seems to quite erratic with no pattern that I can discern. I have my DotMac account also in my Apple Mail client and do not have a problem with it. Changing passwords, quitting, restarting, all seem to be rubber chicken cures. I'll be watching to see if a real solution surfaces.

I've now changed the authentication from "Password" to "APOP" and back to "Password". Any verfication that this is useful at all will have to wait a few days.

I solved the problem on my system. I had been unable to retrieve Comast Mail for 48 Hours, but could send.

I tried all of the other suggestions here to no avail.

I used Cocktail App to clear System and User caches and my Comcast accounts came back to life in OS X Mail.

http://www.maintain.se/downloads/leopard.html

Peter

I'm having the same problem. It's been going on for about 3 days now. I am not on comcast, I'm on Earthlink. I've followed every recommendation in this thread without success, including downloading Cocktail and cleaning out my cash and repairing my permissions.

Has anyone found another solution to this? First time I've really been PO'ed about any problem with an Apple product.

Same problem with the rejected password. I'm with Earthlink. I have no problems with my MacBook Pro, but set up a new iMac this week that is having the problem. As of Monday, both machines were virtually identical. I used migration assistant to set up the iMac exactly like the MacBook.

Only the iMac is having this problem. As I was reading the thread, I saw a suggestion to uncheck the SSL box on the server information. Since I did that, no problem. Previously it had been popping up every 30 sec. to 1 min.

Except that I've never had the SSL box checked and yet still had the issue with my Earthlink accounts.

It's weird. First the Comcast accounts, then Verizon, now Earthlink. Anyone else seeing a pattern, or am I just being a conspiracy theorist?

Tried that, and it didn't even connect w/earthlink's server.

Misread Elcid93's recommendation. Thought he meant "check" the SSL box, not "uncheck" it. In any event, checking SSL resulted in no connection at all. Unchecking it lead to several hours w/o a problem, but it's started up again for no apparent reason.