I've had my Macbook for a couple months now, and my mail app just started doing a thing where the icon jumps up and down on the dock. I click on it, and it asks for my password which is already typed in the box, so I just click OK. And often it just keeps popping back up to ask for my password. It's getting super annoying, and I don't know how to fix it. Please help!
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10)
I "upgraded" (Apple's word for it, not mine) to Yosemite last week, and had trouble with email.
I deleted the 2 AOL accounts on the machine, and reestablished them with the "Add Account" feature.
It keeps asking me for the the passwords for them, tells me the passwords i give are wrong. it does this 3-4 times every once in awhile
Thing is, both accounts are correctly logged in, I can send and receive mail to from/to them. I never saw it do this in (good old) Mavericks.
Also, when I created the account, it choose Port 143 in the Advanced tab. Somewhere along the line it changed them Port to 993, I don't know who is doing this, or why ???? Can anyone clear this up for me ???
Yup, me too. It happened under Leopard, Mavericks and now Yosemite on my brand new Mac Pro. it is a very very annoying problem. I find the only temporary "work-around" is to quit and reboot Apple Mail. And when that doesn't work, reboot the Mac. When that doesn't work, run DiskWarrior. It then usually stops... until the next time.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
Mail/Provide Mail Feedback
Try deleting the passwords from Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access. While there, run Keychain First Aid.
Try running Keychain First Aid and resetting the original keychain.
Keychain Issues - Resolve see post by Kappy
I have never used Keychain
It does it automatically.
Mail app keeps asking for password
