El Capitan Apple Mail.app Passwords Won't Take

Long story about taking drives and video cards to a new Mac Pro...OS boots up fine (El Capitan).


All my email accounts are blind to their passwords and the System Preferences is asking me for passwords. They are entered, then it says "Unable to verify account name or password".


How can I fix this? Any insight apprecaited. Cheers

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Posted on Aug 22, 2020 4:01 PM

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Sep 1, 2020 5:02 AM in response to BioRich

Found a mail log:


Sep  1 07:57:15  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Disconnected]> Read: * OK [CAPABILITY (
	    IMAP4REV1,
	    STARTTLS,
	    "AUTH=PLAIN",
	    "AUTH=LOGIN"
	)]
Sep  1 07:57:15  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Wrote: 1.32 STARTTLS
Sep  1 07:57:15  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: 1.32 OK
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Wrote: 2.32 CAPABILITY
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: * CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: 2.32 OK
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Wrote: 3.32 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: +
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: 3.32 BAD Authentication aborted by client.
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Wrote: 4.32 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: +
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: 4.32 BAD Authentication aborted by client.
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Wrote: 5.32 AUTHENTICATE LOGIN
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: +
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: 5.32 BAD Authentication aborted by client.
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Wrote: 6.32 AUTHENTICATE LOGIN
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: +
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Read: 6.32 BAD Authentication aborted by client.
Sep  1 07:57:16  Mail[1757] <Debug>: <0x7fafcc6f09c0:[Non-authenticated]> Wrote: 7.32 LOGOUT


Seems this fine application (whose rules never work) can't even authenticate. The account is just fine.



Sep 1, 2020 4:55 AM in response to BioRich

Just deleted the full account, both in Mail.app and System Preferences::Internet Accounts.


Started fresh. SP::IA tried with my account info and it still says "Unable to verify account name or password." Webmail works. Nothing has changed.


Why is OSX not working? Console on internetaccounts:


2020-09-01 7:32:04.815 AM com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice[889]: Unable to simultaneously satisfy constraints:
(
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7ff18dca9850 H:[NSView:0x7ff18dc1bc60(405)]>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7ff18b7153f0 H:|-(0)-[NSView:0x7ff18dc1bc60]   (Names: '|':NSView:0x7ff18dc01b30 )>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7ff18dc28870 H:[NSView:0x7ff18dc1bc60]-(0)-|   (Names: '|':NSView:0x7ff18dc01b30 )>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7ff18dcaff20 H:[NSView:0x7ff18dc01b30(407)]>"
)

Will attempt to recover by breaking constraint 
<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7ff18dca9850 H:[NSView:0x7ff18dc1bc60(405)]>

Set the NSUserDefault NSConstraintBasedLayoutVisualizeMutuallyExclusiveConstraints to YES to have -[NSWindow visualizeConstraints:] automatically called when this happens.  And/or, break on objc_exception_throw to catch this in the debugger.
2020-09-01 7:32:04.816 AM com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice[889]: Unable to simultaneously satisfy constraints:
(
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7ff18dc45960 V:[NSView:0x7ff18dc1bc60(197)]>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7ff18dc30090 V:|-(0)-[NSView:0x7ff18dc1bc60]   (Names: '|':NSView:0x7ff18dc01b30 )>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7ff18dc1d500 V:[NSView:0x7ff18dc1bc60]-(0)-|   (Names: '|':NSView:0x7ff18dc01b30 )>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7ff18dcab510 V:[NSView:0x7ff18dc01b30(301)]>"
)

Will attempt to recover by breaking constraint 
<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7ff18dc45960 V:[NSView:0x7ff18dc1bc60(197)]>

Set the NSUserDefault NSConstraintBasedLayoutVisualizeMutuallyExclusiveConstraints to YES to have -[NSWindow visualizeConstraints:] automatically called when this happens.  And/or, break on objc_exception_throw to catch this in the debugger.
2020-09-01 7:32:08.495 AM com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice[889]: Error in CoreDragRemoveTrackingHandler: -1856
2020-09-01 7:32:08.495 AM com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice[889]: Error in CoreDragRemoveReceiveHandler: -1856


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