[X4U] Apple Mail Password Issue

[Russell McGaha]

Bill;
	You have a permissions' issue with mail preferences.  I had the same  
problem.  I just don remember the exact file and path.

Russell


On Mar 20, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Bill Fox wrote:

> I've come across what appears to be an unsolvable problem with Mail.  
> Ever since my wife got a new Intel iMac running Tiger and I used  
> Migration Assistant to transfer her data from her older G5 iMac,  
> Mail refuses to "save" her password, i.e. every time she opens Mail  
> after a restart she has to enter her Mail password to use Mail.
>
> I have tried many things. I have deleted the account and set up a  
> new one. I erased the drive and reinstalled Tiger and reimported her  
> data using Migration Assistant. I have deleted every plist that I  
> can find associated with Apple Mail. I have deleted her Keychain and  
> every plist that I can find associated with Keychain. The problem  
> has persisted through an upgrade to Leopard and an Archive and  
> Install with Leopard.
>
> Maybe I haven't found the right plist to delete to fix this problem.  
> Does anyone have an idea other than using a fresh install of Leopard  
> and not using Miragtion Assistant which is obviously moving the bad  
> file along with all of her data? Thanks.
>
> Bill
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