[muglo] Re: Keychain and AppleMail idiosyncrasies

Thanks for the ideas and suggestions , Dave

Will follow up



On 16 Feb 2006, at 3:51 PM, Dave Bonhoff wrote:

> Are you sure that you are connected when these issues occur?  If your
> PPPoE session has been disconnected, you may get these symptoms.
> The first issue is your email provider refusing to accept your email,
> usually happens if you are connected from another network / login.
> i.e. you are at a friends using their internet service.  The keychain
> issue is usually caused by Mail.app not receiving a response from the
> mail server in a timely fashion.  It then assumes that your password
> failed and prompts you to enter it again.
>
> HTH
> Dave
>
> On 16-Feb-06, at 14:40, Ilbert Walker wrote:
>
>
>> Anyone out there have any suggestions regarding a recurring problem
>> experienced using AppleMail.
>> Despite being properly connected online with my HDSL service,  emails
>> suddenly are unable to be sent and a dialog box comes up suggesting I
>> switch outgoing to another address etc .  And despite switching , it
>> still won't.  Until I restart the G5 (running Tiger).  And as in
>> olden times, a reboot seems to clear whatever is causing the stoppage
>> - and the mail goes out immediately.
>>
>> Why ?
>>
>> A second and perhaps related question ?.  Somewhere in this
>> procedure, the Keychain Password dialog box sometimes comes up - and
>> which I complete with request to save the password (which it
>> doesn't!) .
>>
>> I am the sole user of my Mac and would dearly love to rid myself of
>> this unnecessary security protection.
>> I'm afraid to delete or muck about with my keychain settings  in case
>> of unforeseen consequences!
>> Are there any problems if I just delete all my keychain passwords if
>> I wish to?
>>
>> Any help or similar experience from other members would be  
>> appreciated
>>
>> Ilbert
>>
>
>
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