On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:54 PM, nk wrote: > it happens to me at least once/week, to one or more of my accounts: > I'll see a password dialogue box, and that account goes gray. > mail.app tells me it doesn't have the password, or has the wrong > password, etc. > > quitting mail.app usually fixes the problem, but why does this > arise in the first place? In my case, I see that occasionally when one of my mail servers has a glitch. It usually rectifies a few minutes later. Kirk Author of: The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood http://www.mcelhearn.com/unix.html - - - - - - Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more