[X-Unix] speaking of passwords...

[Stephen Jonke]

I believe the source of confusion is the following behavior: if the 
keychain is currently locked, even if previously unlocked (during the 
current session), and you send mail, it will request your keychain 
password to unlock the keychain. If the keychain is currently locked, 
but was previously unlocked (during the current session), then Mail 
will *not* request the keychain password when *checking* mail. I don't 
know how it does this. Is it storing its own copy of the password which 
it only uses when checking mail and not when sending (I have my doubts 
that it does this), is it keeping the mail checking session open so it 
doesn't have to request a password, or some other means? ???

Steve

On Apr 5, 2005, at 11:33 AM, James Bucanek wrote:

> Anthony Smith wrote on Tuesday, April 5, 2005:
>
>> Hi all,
>>   I'm new to this list and was just wondering where Apple's Mail.app
>> program stores its passwords. I'm surprised that it doesn't store them
>> in the keychain- but anyway.
>
> Mail stores its passwords on the keychain.
>
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