Thanks for all the replies.

Mail has just decided t work again this instant. Unfortunately I don't know why. No idea. Just started again with same password etc. I can only think it may have been a problem with Bigpond rejecting the password.

I have had this problem at Tsunami on minor accounts for some time but never that serious.

I think in future I may go back to Entourage as I never had (comparatively) as many problems and I believe now Spotlight will index their emails. I hope it's true for older versions as well.

Brett Carboni
Tsunami

On 12/07/2006, at 9:00 AM, Vladimir James wrote:

Brett,

This has happened to me on several occasions when I clicked on the 'Get Mail' icon. I then cancelled the dialog box and instead went to the menubar (Mailbox) clicking on 'Get New Mail' and selecting the appropriate account. I was able to get my mail this way. Seemed to be a workaround for an irregular anomaly in Mail.


Using Mail I have suddenly been presented with a dialog box asking me
to re enter my password for the account "Brett's email". It states
"The POP server "mail.bigpond.com" rejected the password for user
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .

Trouble is I'm using the right password.