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Re: Mail drops PW

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On 10/30/13   PDT, 3:03 PM, dorayme wrote:
> In article <l4rb43$aa5$1@dont-email.me>,
>   John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On 10/30/13   PDT, 8:29 AM, Sandman wrote:
>>>
>>> In article <l4r7vj$ln6$1@dont-email.me>, John McWilliams
>>> <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>    My main e-mail account starting dropping the Password and reentering it
>>>>    in Preferences does good only for the session— or rather until I quit
>>>>    the app. Yes, leaving the app open will avoid frequent re-entering, but
>>>>    I've been in the habit of closing apps when through with them. (not
>>>>    necessary today, but a long hangover from OSes 6, 7, 8, 9.
>>>>
>>>>    Short of deleting the account an rebuilding it in Mail, is there a fix
>>>>    to this?
>>>
>>> What kind of email account is it? There have been reports of Apple Mail and
>>> Yahoo mail having these kind of problems, the solution back then was to go
>>> to yahoo.com and login, logout, and then login again. It should then as you
>>> if you want to upgrade your account to the new version, which helped some.
>>>
>>> You can also remove the passwords from the keychain app, which would
>>> re-save them to it when entering it in Mail next time, that may help.
>>
>> It was (is) my mac.com e-mail, and after combing through Keychain and
>> deleting lots of stuff, that seems to have done the trick. Also cleaned
>> house and deleted carryovers from long gone computers and comcast.net
>> mail accounts.
>>
>> Thank you.
>
> Don't be too hopeful, though of course, I hope this has done the trick
> for you for good. I think Mail.app is buggy.
>
> Been doing this sort of thing for years in my Mail.app. In my
> Mail.app, the password as represented by the bullets, now and then
> disappear for no known reason at all, even when prefs are locked.

I am neither hopeful nor despairing over the matter..... this is the 
first real glitch in Mail for several years that wasn't cured by 
relaunching the app.

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Mail drops PW John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-10-30 08:18 -0700
  Re: Mail drops PW Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-30 15:29 +0000
    Re: Mail drops PW John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-10-30 09:11 -0700
      Re: Mail drops PW Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-30 20:26 +0000
      Re: Mail drops PW dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2013-10-31 09:03 +1100
        Re: Mail drops PW John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-11-01 13:16 -0700
  Re: Mail drops PW Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-10-30 20:13 -0700
    Re: Mail drops PW John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-11-01 13:17 -0700
  Re: Mail drops PW Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-02 12:43 -0400

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