DONT QUIT KEYCHAIN PASSWORD
Your incoming mail password probably has "pop" in it, while your outgoing mail password will likely have "smtp" in it. On the right, locate your email passwords.
UNLOCK your keychain by clicking on the lock icon in the upper left corner. It may work, it may not, but worth a try. Typically, the stored password is "forgotten", or the port through which Mail is trying to connect to the ISP gets changed from what it should be. I believe it involves corrupted passwords, or stored passwords that conflict with the new Mail.app. I believe the problem is not localized only within the Mail.app, but rather has something to do with stored passwords in Keychain and problems that arise when importing passwords created in 10.5 into 10.6. I was trying to help him resolve it, but he decided to go back to 10.5 before I was able to come up with a conclusive solution. Before Snow Leopard, Mail would ask me for my Keychain password once when I started the app and from then on never again until I relaunched it."ĮXACTLY the same problem happened when a friend upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6 on an aluminum iMac. "I think it started after I upgraded to Snow Leopard. The server password settings are saved in Mail Preference file and resetting the preference file should help it. I wrote these steps because it helped me a couple of years ago. Th email Preferences on you desktop can be thrown away if the steps above help fix your problem. In the popup, click on the "Accounts" tab and make a new account putting in the email server settings you wrote down earlier. When the Mail application is open go to the menu item "Mail" and select "Preferences". Open Mail and don't let it Automatically setup an email account for you. Open the folder /YourHardDrive/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ and find the file: and drag the file to your Desktop.ĥ. Open /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access and in the application delete and saved passwords (remember your passwords for email server) For the email server account.Ĥ. The next steps will blow these settings away but will not affect any saved email folders.ģ. Get your email server settings and WRITE THEM DOWN! Make sure you get the SMTP & Pop or IMAP server settings. How I fix it required a two step process (in oder) and a pen & paper.ġ.
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