[X Newbies] Mail & .mac password

[birgit rhoads]

Thank you for your response.  This only happens with my mac.com 
address.  Ironic that Apple Mail cannot connect with Apple's mac.com 
address;).  Perhaps the problem is with my own server, however, all 
other mail accounts work fine.  Today, mac.com is staying offline.

Birgit
Who vows never to share her political, religious, or environmental 
issues with strangers who most likely don't give 2¢ for her opinion. 
Nuff Said!



On Apr 15, 2004, at 12:09 PM, W Lane wrote:

>
> On Apr 15, 2004, at 09:26, birgit rhoads wrote:
>
>> Using Apple Mail.  I very often am asked to give my password for my 
>> .mac mail account.  I enter the password and it is rejected 
>> repeatedly.  I re-enter the password in my .mac account and it is 
>> still rejected.  Is this a problem with the .mac site?  I am getting 
>> my mail on .mac today, so their mail is not down.  Just cannot 
>> download it?
>>
>> Anyone know why this occurs?
>
> As I understand it if Mail, for whatever reason, can't connect with 
> your ISP's mail server it throws an 'error' which it displays as 
> 'incorrect password'. The password is really NOT the problem and, as 
> you have discovered, re-entering it is not the solution. Generally 
> when I have this happen I leave the account Offline for a bit (you'll 
> see a little almost invisible 'lightning bolt' next to your In box in 
> the Mail drawer'. Click on it to bring the account(s) back on line.
>
>
>
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