the keychain repair showed no problems.... but this was the 1st time that i opened my keychain access and took a look... apparently on the bottom pane ...ask for confirmation was checked ... am switching to always allow... and hopefully this will solve the problem. i have often gotten a window asking if i would allow decription of my mail accounts ( usually after installing an upgrade or patch) and i always select 'always allow' but either that didn't hold or i missed one ;-). will come back for more help if this doesn't solve it.. THANK YOU! /s > ps ... got to the link below which didn't work for me by going to : > http://www.apple.com > clicked on the support tab > and then entered the article # from below : 107234 > > thanks... hope it works will report back. > > /s > thank you martin & aaron... i've never authorized keychain to remember > any passwords for me.... are you saying that mail.app has been using > that anyway.. behind my back so to speak ... and it just became > corrupted? > /s > ======================= S.Cooper Creative Art Link http://www.creativeartlink.com sc at creativeartlink.com On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 09:40 PM, X-Applications wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:50:42 -0500 > Subject: Re: [X-Apps] 1. mail.app losing passwords > From: Aaron Dickey <thewar at adelphia.net> > Message-Id: <9BFAC258-12B9-11D7-B51A-000393BD0642 at adelphia.net> > > On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 08:57 AM, de Bernardo, Martin > wrote: > >> I had the same problem and there is a utility to fix your keychain >> problem >> on Apples Knowledge base. That will do the trick. > > It's Keychain First Aid 1.0. Available here: > <http://docs.info.apple.com/ > article.html?artnum=107234&SaveKCWindowURL=http%3A%2F%2Fkbase.info.appl > e > .com%2Fcgi- > bin%2FWebObjects%2Fkbase.woa%2Fwa%2FSaveKCToHomePage&searchMode=Assiste > d > &kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com&showButton=false&randomValue=100&showSurve > y > =false&sessionID=anonymous|160063882> > > --Aaron > >