The password prompt in mail when accessing POP accounts appears a bit too
frequently. If the server rejects your login for any reason (too many people
logged in, account locked, already connected to this account on a different
computer) the Mail application gives the same message. If one tested the POP
account manually then one would probably get a better answer to what is going
on.
I believe that the fetchmail program would help with this, but I don't know
if it is part of the default Macintosh distribution...
operations-center:~ joncohn$ fetchmail --help
usage: fetchmail [options] [server ...]
Options are as follows:
-?, --help display this option help
-V, --version display version info
-c, --check check for messages without fetching
-s, --silent work silently
-v, --verbose work noisily (diagnostic output)
-d, --daemon run as a daemon once per n seconds
-N, --nodetach don't detach daemon process
-q, --quit kill daemon process
-L, --logfile specify logfile name
--syslog use syslog(3) for most messages when running as a daemon
--invisible don't write Received & enable host spoofing
-f, --fetchmailrc specify alternate run control file
-i, --idfile specify alternate UIDs file
--pidfile specify alternate PID (lock) file
--postmaster specify recipient of last resort
--nobounce redirect bounces from user to postmaster.
--nosoftbounce fetchmail deletes permanently undeliverable messages.
--softbounce keep permanently undeliverable messages on server (default).
--ssl enable ssl encrypted session
--sslkey ssl private key file
--sslcert ssl client certificate
--sslcertck do strict server certificate check (recommended)
--sslcertpath path to ssl certificates
--sslcommonname expect this CommonName from server (discouraged)
--sslfingerprint fingerprint that must match that of the server's cert.
--sslproto force ssl protocol (SSL2/SSL3/TLS1)
--plugin specify external command to open connection
--plugout specify external command to open smtp connection
-p, --protocol specify retrieval protocol (see man page)
-U, --uidl force the use of UIDLs (pop3 only)
--port TCP port to connect to (obsolete, use --service)
-P, --service TCP service to connect to (can be numeric TCP port)
--auth authentication type (password/kerberos/ssh/otp)
-t, --timeout server nonresponse timeout
-E, --envelope envelope address header
-Q, --qvirtual prefix to remove from local user id
--principal mail service principal
--tracepolls add poll-tracing information to Received header
-u, --username specify users's login on server
-a, --[fetch]all retrieve old and new messages
-K, --nokeep delete new messages after retrieval
-k, --keep save new messages after retrieval
-F, --flush delete old messages from server
--limitflush delete oversized messages
-n, --norewrite don't rewrite header addresses
-l, --limit don't fetch messages over given size
-w, --warnings interval between warning mail notification
-S, --smtphost set SMTP forwarding host
--fetchdomains fetch mail for specified domains
-D, --smtpaddress set SMTP delivery domain to use
--smtpname set SMTP full name username@domain
-Z, --antispam, set antispam response values
-b, --batchlimit set batch limit for SMTP connections
-B, --fetchlimit set fetch limit for server connections
--fetchsizelimit set fetch message size limit
--fastuidl do a binary search for UIDLs
-e, --expunge set max deletions between expunges
-m, --mda set MDA to use for forwarding
--bsmtp set output BSMTP file
--lmtp use LMTP (RFC2033) for delivery
-r, --folder specify remote folder name
--showdots show progress dots even in logfiles
operations-center:~ joncohn$
Jonathan C. Cohn
[email protected]
On Feb 22, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> No.
>
> my gmail has been behaving. But my hotmail? Oh hotmail. :(. I get prompted
> for my password for it from Apple Mail like every other day.
>
> Ricardo Walker
> [email protected]
> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197
>
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:55 PM, carolyn Haas wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone:
>> Google's on a roll with asking for my passwords for everything. Started
>> yesterday, and I was still able to pull in mail. But, it's getting more
>> constant. If I try "get all new mail," up comes the password request.
>> Anyone else having this today?
>>
>> Carolyn H
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