[X4U] Mail asks for password

[Doug McNutt]

At 13:23 -0800 1/25/10, zapcat wrote:
>On Jan 25, 2010, at 5:38 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>> Someone has the problem that Mail keeps asking for the password.   
>> How to fix it?
>
>I get this approximately once per month. I have come to simply quit  Mail, and re-launch it as my method of dealing with it. After I quit  and relaunch, it goes for another month without asking for a password.
>

One thing that happens roughly monthly is that the IP address assigned by your service provider changes. They like to do that to keep you from running a server and tying up low speed upload channels.

SMTP mail transfer agents can check the IP you are calling from and they sometimes maintain a list of approved IP addresses. It's quite possible for them to ask for a password when they might not if they recognize the IP address.

It is really common for them to require proper identification of your IP using a read-mail operation before they will allow your current IP to send anything.

There are some web sites - whatsmyip - that will tell you your current IP address.
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