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Re: Mail drops PW

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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.


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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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