The first problem you describe appears to be a common problem with OS X Mail and certain ISPs, particularly BT/Yahoo - sometimes the delay when authenticating is too long (e.g. when the mail server is temporarily down, or heavily loaded) and this is interpreted by OS X Mail as an authentication failure, so it pops up a dialog asking for your password. Annoying, but relatively harmless.
Paul On 24 Jun 2013, at 11:08, Phil Tomlinson <philip.tomlins...@btinternet.com> wrote: > For a long time now Mail has had a few glitches. The most recent episodes > feature a message telling me that I need to sign in using my name & password. > It tells me that it can't connect to BT yahoo.This message appears in the > rectangle which already has my name and password typed in, so I tick either > of the two options presented (I think they are "continue" or "ignore") Both > seem to work and return me to the open Mail page. Sometimes though the > message itself reappears repeatedly and i keep on clicking it. Eventually I > get back to the Mail page and everything works ok. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
