Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: More mailbox problems with Mail Date: 17 Mar 2017 15:40:04 GMT Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.D4F08D79019DD75CB02919BF@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Dg7QmtdXng7g6kFBHrN5CANnUK98UAMlu1JQaTdBr6wjbbw0Sz Cancel-Lock: sha1:R+7CVTTWjfym0uq+FbgXRF/gtS4= sha1:NglzSfTsB3s3k9in5R36vZDUbx8= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.2.6 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:102492 Patty Winter wrote: > > I found a page on Apple's support site about iCloud Keychain, > which is the program I got that warning from. What warning? iCloud Keychain has nothing to do with your mail issue! > By following the > instructions to activate it, I figured out how to deactivate it. > Under System Preferences --> iCloud, "Keychain" was checked on > my MacBook Air. (But not on my iMac, which is weird. I don't know > how my iMac knew about Keychain, much less that the MacBook was > using it.) Both were signed into the same Apple account with the feature enabled. That's how it's supposed to work. > So I deactivated Keychain on the MacBook, There's no reason to do that since it had nothing to do with your issue; and by turning it off you are making things harder on yourself, because Safari and other apps won't have access to stored credentials in the keychain, which means rather than automatically filling in usernames and passwords, you will now have to type them in manually. Why needlessly do that to yourself? > then went > back to the iMac and deleted that IMAP account and re-created it. > All my mailboxes came up as expected, yay! Great! -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR