Not sure if I have had the same problem or not, but when I have similar symptoms, I log onto the web-based version of my email account and delete all of the emails that are there. This usually fixes it for me. Regards... On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 02:11 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > > One of my ISPs has the SLOWEST email servers. Three other accounts at > other providers have no problem, but this one keeps coming back and > asking for my ISP password, time after time. Occasionally it will > actually retrieve mail, but usually I have to give up and cancel it > until later. It seems like Mail is timing out and, getting confused, > asks for my password again, and again... > > There are settings in other mail clients to set the timeout. Does > anyone know how to do that with Mail in Panther?