On Jul 5, 2011, at 12:07 , Lee Larson wrote:

> On Jul 5, 2011, at 11:44 AM, John Robinson wrote:
> 
>> Can't tell you how many times this happens to me, so much that when I leave 
>> the house I quit mail for if not I often come home to have the dialogue box 
>> hanging up mail waiting for the password.  
> 
> This has little to do with SMTP servers; it's stupidity in Apple's mail 
> program. It seems that no matter what the problem is with logging into a mail 
> server, Apple's mail.app wants you to enter your password. The program has 
> little facility for detecting other problems such as timeouts because a 
> server is busy or network hiccups. Every error brings up a password dialog. 
> If you check the logs, you'll see there was likely some other unrelated error.

Ok, now I'm curious. Where should I look for this? I tried peeking through some 
Console logs, but didn't find anything which looked like it had to do with Mail 
having trouble. Is there another place to look for these style log files?

Bill

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