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March 25th, 2005, 03:07 AM
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 mail forgets passwords Hi Firstly, apologies if this has been answered elsewhere or is a well known issue - I've done my best with searching here and Google. Sorry. Right, I've just got my mac mini (pictures), my first mac. So far I'm loving the whole experience, apart from one annoying little thing. Mail.app keeps "forgetting" the passwords for my various POP email accounts, despite me ticking the 'remember' box each time I have entered it. This doesn't happen all the time, but it is fairly regular. There are not any other POP sessions accessing the mailboxes, and the accounts are from several different providers, so I can't blame one particular server! Any suggestions welcome! Apart from this, the mini has really impressed me. Mine is 1.42GHz, 512Mb RAM, 80Gb with Airport Extreme. The only time it's struggled at all was running Virtual PC, which I'm not going to use any more, so is not a problem (I've found a more satisfactory solution using my WinXP machine and VNC). Cheers AndyH
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March 25th, 2005, 01:02 PM
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| my mac does this ocasionally as well. i think it is more of a networking problem. When mail.app can't connect to my POP account, it asks for a a new password. i hit cancel and then get mail again and it works. sometimes you might have to make sure that the POP account is online by clicking the ~ beside your inbox.
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March 25th, 2005, 01:04 PM
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| Cheers Pardus Just a a troubleshooting exercise, I'm going to run another mail client. Perhaps Entourage, although MS are bad at notifying about errors so maybe I'll find something else. Any more experience of this problem?
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March 25th, 2005, 04:28 PM
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| I agree with Pardus, One of my accounts does that if I leave mail open all day. I think it is just timing out to the server. If you like VNC you should actually try using the MS Remote desktop app. VNC is nice but MS knows how to work with their own product better, it's faster in my opinion. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherpr...edesktopclient I think it also comes with Office 2004 if you look through the install dir. Also, you might want to try Synergy if you have 2 monitors, it shares your mouse and keyboard accross the 2 computers. |
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August 1st, 2005, 08:45 PM
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| Sorry to revive an old thread (it's not that old, and it's an ongoing problem), but is there a solution for this? I want Mail.app to just give up on an account it can't access, instead of asking me for passwords all the time. The thing is these little "Please re-enter your password" boxes are keeping my computer from falling asleep at night. Is this still a problem in Tiger Mail? Is there SOMEWHERE you can tell Mail to just give up if it times out?
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