Q: Mail suddenly keeps asking for my password. It's the SAME one that's in my Keychain
For unknown reasons, Mail has started to repeatedly ask for my password. I enter it, and it asks again. The password is the same one that's in my Keychain. I can download and read my email without a problem on the iCloud site. I can download and read my email just fine on my iPhone. What gives?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), Mail 5.3
Posted on Sep 24, 2015 7:10 PM
I called Apple after several hours trying to resolve this on my own. Here's the the solution. It's not intuitive at all.
When I upgraded my phone to iOS 9, I turned on two-step verification. Around that time, Mail started acting up. So, to get it working again, I had to turn off two-step verification. You can do this by going to Settings on your iCloud page.
Now, everything is back to normal.
Posted on Oct 1, 2015 10:40 AM