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Pop Sever Rejected my Password

I have been experiencing problems with macmail since 10.5 was released. POP server rejected my password box intermittently. It is annoying and Apple Support told me 10.5.5 was released to help solve this problem. Well so far it has not. Is there anyone with suggestions as to how to fix this problem?

G5, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Sep 23, 2008 6:53 AM

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Sep 23, 2008 8:06 AM in response to Steve316

Steve,
I'm looking for the same answer. That annoying box popped up even while I was typing this message. For me it does it even more often than 5-min increments, which seems to eliminate a problem within the automatic check mail feature.

Any chance that you're on Comcast? I'm not ruling out the problem coming from them, since my message tells me that "the POP server 'mail.comcast.net' has rejected my password.

Comcast advised me to trash my keychain passwords for my email accounts. I did that, but it did not solve it.

Any help out there for (now) 2 users?

Sep 29, 2008 3:44 AM in response to Steve316

I am also having the same problem. It started two weeks ago and became worse and worse. Then I upgraded to 10.5.5 and the problem disappeared for the week....until last night when it started all over. Worse, when I enter in the correct password, I am still getting the error message. I've deleted the keychains, changed the passwords, deleted preferences and still can't fix it.

Sep 29, 2008 4:36 AM in response to hockeymom3

I had this problem over a month ago, then it went away. Now it is back with a vengeance. I get this annoying pop-up at least every 30 seconds or less. I do believe that Comcast has something to do with it, because in the last episode a friend who has a Dell with Windows was getting the same problem.

I have tried restarting but get nowhere.

Sep 29, 2008 11:00 AM in response to hockeymom3

Sure sounds like Comcast is wanting to avoid the issue when they say their mail works when you access it through Comcast.net.

Dear Comcast, that's not where the problem lies! The problem is occurring in Apple Mail - but even so, it may be originating within the Comcast server. Please help out your loyal users, Comcast!!! Investigate this further and provide feedback!

Pop Sever Rejected my Password

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