I got that once a week ago. Give your password and also select to remember it. Paul Moortgat On 26 Aug 2010, at 22:06, Murray E. Milligan wrote: > I am using OS X 10.5.8. > > I also use Mail 3.6 > > I've noticed quite a lot lately when I leave my mail program running > in the background, I start to receive these annoying windows popping > up telling me to > insert my password for my account. I cancel this window, then > instruct mail to go back online and download my mail which it dows. > > What gives with this? It happened before with 10.4, but now it's > happening again. > > Any quick cures that anyone knows about? > > Murray