[G4] Password/Keychain problems in Mail?

[Renita Williams]

Kathy and Paul,

I was having the same annoying problem until last week.  I too was 
collecting mail every minute from several accounts.  I was turning on 
mail in the morning before I went to work, and retuning to find mail 
asking for my password.

Anyway, I solved the problem by going into Keychain Access and looking 
at the access control for each of my mail accounts.  I made sure that 
the box for "Ask for keychain passowrd" box was unchecked.  I also made 
sure my keychain was unlocked.

Since I did this, I have not had the problem with mail.  Key Chain 
Access is in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.

Hope this helps,

Renita
1G G4 Dual Processor
10.2.4


On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 02:47  AM, KathyMac! wrote:

>
> I've read on the Apple Discussions board about the following problem I 
> am having and no one seems to have a real anwer. Perhaps someone here 
> is having the same situation.
>
> Mail is set to collect every minute. I have 10 accounts. It works fine 
> 90% of the  time but often enough I walk into the room to find the 
> bouncing mail stamp in the dock freaking out because Mail wants my 
> password again for one or more accounts. Apparently, it has been 
> denied permission from the server etc...
>
> This is not a server problem as I see people having this Mail issue 
> with all sorts of ISP companies. It is some sort of freaky bug with 
> the Keychain or Password archives?
>
> I was holding out hope that 10.2.4 would bring a fix (and hoping it 
> would also fix the printing problems with Epson and custom paper 
> sizes) but it did not.
>
> Anyone else having problems with Mail being unreliable with its 
> automated collection?
>
> Kathy
>
>