Mail Asks for Keychain Password

I am having a similar situation. I have 5 different accounts on Mail and they usually work fine. However, the AOL account randomly produces a popup stating that aol.smtp.com did not accept my password. Sometimes it will pop up five or six times in a row before accepting the password. This occurs every time I use Mail. My sbc account requests a password about once a week.

This is not a new problem specific to Snow Leopard.

It was dealt with at one time and is back now for some of us...perhaps 10.6.2 will help.

open Keychain Access. control-click on the login keychain and select 'change settings" for keychain "login" make sure that the box to lock the keychain when sleeping is unlocked.

I Have the same problem with keychain and mail.

Thanks for the suggestion VK. I checked and the box is not checked. I have also deleted the AOL account and recreated it. The password matches in Mail and in Keychain Access. I don't even need to access the AOL account for the popup to occur. It even occurs when Mail is in the background. Just a random thing but it's driving me nuts!

I am having the same problem, MAIL keeps popping up a window saying my password is rejected, please re-enter and click here to save in keychhain... I know my password is correct as I have entered it a thousand times recently, AND I do get email sporadically... so when will APPLE find a solution to this, if it is indeed a problem with MAIL or KEYCHAIN.

I am getting really fed up with this, and am desperate for an answer or some help from anyone...please!!!!

Thank you.

Ok. I notice when it does it for me.
I have an email account x.xxxxx@windowslive.com and xxxx passcode.
But the same exactly i have and for facebook log in.
If i log in to fb, then the mail to receive mails, asks me for pass.
Αnd reverse.
Ιf i give the pass to mail and i PRESS the keep in keychain, then safari asks me for fb login pass.

Hope that helps apple to resolve the problem

Hello Gregory,

I once tried per your suggestion, but Mail deleted all of the messages related to the account.
Is there a way in order to only delete the account, but not the e-mails?
Thank you very much,

blade0r

I tried this again today and it seems to have worked. I manually recreated the AOL account. Thanks!

I ran into this problem in 10.6.1. I have a secondary keychain whose password differs from the system password. Here's what fixed it:
1. I made all my keychain & system passwords identical. This in itself didn't fix it, but I left those passwords in agreement, so I don't know if this step is necessary.
2. In Keychain Access Preferences, under the First Aid tab, I checked the box to sync the keychain password with account.
I got the idea for this from this site:
www.jaharmi.com/2009/08/29/sync the_keychain_passphrase_with_the_login_account_password_in_snowleopard

And I left out that I ran Keychain First Aid after these other steps. At any rate, things have been working perfectly for a day now, through numerous intentional restarts. I might have had to enter my keychain password just one time after my first restart, can't remember.

I spoke too soon. It started again. It doesn't occur as often but it occurs at least once every time I bring Mail from the background.