Keychain for Mail on Leopard: invalid password

Thank you, BDAqua. I'll try those and then check back in with a follow-up post.

Resetting the keychain got rid of the invalid password message. Now, when Mail prompts me for the email passwords of my two email accounts, the passwords are not saved in the keychain, even when I check the box indicating to Mail to save them. When I open the Keychain Access application and click on the Passwords category in the lefthand pane of the window, no passwords display in the main windowpane, whereas before I reset the keychain, the email passwords did appear in that windowpane. I then verified the keychain; it was OK. I repaired it anyway, just in case, but the current issue still persists.

Thank you again, BDAqua. I'll look into the new information that you provided and check back in again.

I tried moving the com.apple.keychainaccess.plist file to the Desktop. Mail still doesn't save the passwords in the keychain.

Next, I'll try resetting the keychain again.

Also, I have a question regarding the unsanity.org link. Is the relevant information the part about renaming the below to have each end with ".old"?

/var/db/SystemKey

/var/db/TokenCache

/var/db/SystemEntropyCache

Thanks. I'll give that a try after trying resetting the keychain again.

It's now fixed; Mail does not prompt for the passwords anymore, and the email account information shows up in the Keychain Access utility application.

The steps that were performed before it started to work were:

1. Moving the file at /Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.keychainaccess.plist to the Desktop.
2. Using Keychain First Aid in the Keychain Access utility application to first verify and then repair the keychain configuration (Keychain First Aid verified that it was OK, but I ran the repair function just in case).
3. Resetting the keychain again via the General tab under the Preferences menu item of Keychain Access.
4. Rebooting the computer.

Thanks for all of your help, BDAqua! 🙂

You're welcome, BDAqua. 🙂