Mail "forgets" passwords frequently

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Mail "forgets" passwords frequently

Only on 1 machine throughout Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard at least once a week or as often as every 30 seconds, the mail app keeps losing the passwords for all of the accounts. Today it has asked me for the password to one account over 10 times. I am checking the box that says to keep the password and am getting very frustrated with this. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Mike

8 iMacs and 3 Macbooks and many iPods,iPhone, 500g Time Capsule, Apple TV, Mac OS X (10.6.1), As much ram as possible

Posted on Oct 20, 2009 9:47 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 20, 2009 11:24 AM in response to Mike Royal

Try going into Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities on the system disk). You should see a list of all of the passwords that it has saved. Look for duplicate entries for mail accounts or anything else that looks weird.

One possibility is to delete all of the entries related to your mail accounts and see if it works when you create new entries by using the option to save passwords.

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Answer 2

Mike Royal Author

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Oct 20, 2009 12:39 PM in response to Bradley Ross

Just deleted the passwords from the keychain. It asked me for one of them a moment ago, but it's not hammering me for the one that it's been asking for all day. This could be it. I'll let you know.
Thank you.
Mike

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Answer 3

Mike Royal Author

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Oct 4, 2010 6:07 PM in response to Mike Royal

Still doing it, but no one(not even applecare) can fix it.
I'll live with it and won't migrate this system when it's time to upgrade hardware.

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