[X4U] Question on Mail Behavior

[David Ledger]

>From: Ed Gould <edgould1948 at comcast.net>
>I am having a problem/issue with my ISP. His mail server
>intermittently (guess here) is to busy to respond. Up until the
>latest update to mail everything seemed "OK".
>Now on 2.1.3 (753.1) in mail. When the server is busy what happens is
>a window opens and Apple Mail  asks for your password.
...
>How can I get mail to *NOT* ask for a password  if the server is slow/
>busy/whatever. I would prefer for it to stop and wait for the next
>retrieval NOT ask for a password).
>
>Is there a way to do this? (not ask for password)

If the sequence of events makes Mail think the password is bad, then 
the answer is no. How could it ?

As I replied recently to another group:

Probably the same reason it happens occasionally with any ISP with 
Eudora. The mail program connects to the ISP and sends the login name 
and password, but the busy ISP doesn't respond to the password in 
time or just closes the connection after the password is sent. The 
program sees this as a bad password and asks you for the 'real' one. 
If cancelling and re-trying works sometimes, then at least the 
program doesn't delete the remembered password when it thinks it has 
been rejected. Some do.

I don't know if it's possible for the program to be written to 
distinguish between a rejected password and a 'failed to be accepted' 
password within the restraints of the standard library calls.

David


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