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Mail.app: IMAP accounts broken in El Capitan

There appears to be a serious bug in Mail.app where it won't validate my other IMAP email accounts.

I continue to get requests to enter my password which is rejected with the following error:

unable to verify account name or password.

I confirmed that it was not an issue with my password by testing out this same process by adding these accounts on a machine running Yosemite and iOS. Both worked fine.

Can anyone else verify this bug?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Oct 2, 2015 7:02 AM

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MikeB1967

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Posted on Oct 2, 2015 10:25 AM

The problem seems to be widespread across mail servers and clients. Mac Mail, Thunderbird and Outlook are having the same problem. IMAP accounts for some providers do not connect. So far I have the problem with Gmail, Yahoo mail and even Apple's own iCloud. In addition, Mail is now messing up settings and I have to manually reconfigure passwords and server settings and names every time Mail crashes. El Capitan has seriously messed up email productivity. If you can, do not upgrade or return to Yosemite until Apple for once is serious and fixes it's bugs.

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