#Mail on mac keeps asking for password password#
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#Mail on mac keeps asking for password mac#

#Mail on mac keeps asking for password free#

I suspect their is some sort of cookie, or MS just sneakily forces you to visit the web version of their email service occasionally in exchange for active free web mail service via an email client app.

#Mail on mac keeps asking for password mac#

Then I logged into the web version, it accepted my known good credentials, I restarted Mac Mail, and voila, it suddenly started working again. This happened to both a hotmail and a outlook account that were semi dormant, and were only used via Mac Mail, not logged into via web browser in months.Īll my correct setting resulted in errors similar to your complaint. Maybe they don't like people using their free email service without occasionally seeing their web ads? Hotmail com and Outlook com just make you log into the web version of their service occasionally. I had seen similar behavior on some ancient hotmail and outlook com accounts also. you lose their email addresses when you move to another supplier), but now MS wants to force me to close this email address and move to Outlook, but they have not provided a migration path for moving all my old emails to the new address or a mail redirection for those who still use the old account email. The underlying problem here is that email addresses are not permanent - I originally created a Hotmail account to have an email address that would move with me regardless of which internet supplier I was with (i.e. This is why I don't want to lose the emails (25 years worth). I started this account in the late 1990s when I first started working in IT. Something has changed on either the Mac side or the Hotmail Server side which has broken this long term connectivity - It is a tech/support issue not a user issue. I have tried to set this account up as IMAP and as an exchange service (all of which I have used on other occasions effectively but now they all fail). I have tried changing the servers POP and SMPT to the latest ones used in the OUTLOOK website recommendations (the ones I see when I access this hotmail email account through a browser). All other devices (and I have many that use this account) have and are using the same password.

#Mail on mac keeps asking for password password#

I.e The password is fine, the password has been changed just in case (and new one is fine too) and the account is active. I tried all those things as explained in my original posting. I realise I could use time machine to recover messages but that is tedious and slow.Īnyone got Hotmail working under the latest Max OS X (el Cap) Mac Mail? What settings are you using please? Can not risk deleting and re-adding this account. I don't want to lose all my old emails as they are in multiple work folders with other emails from other servers. I deleted all old keychain passwords for 'hotmail' and 'live', just in case. I can access it in browser so account is fine too. It still works on the iphone 4, so I know the password is fine. If you try to use 'Other eMail', it still can not verify the password. I have not been able to set it up as other, IMAP or Outlook Exchange. The pop3 account has been changed to on the Mac. When I enter it I get a message that it can not verify the user and password. There are options available on Verizon's Contact Us page.Recently my Mac Mail has been continuously asking for my hotmail account password. No amount of changing your local settings will change Verizon's status.

If your account is showing disabled/suspended, you need to talk to tech support and/or billing. Email Forwarding : Your e-mail account access has been disabled. Vacation Reply : Your e-mail account access has been disabled. The email options in the website all say:Įmail Alias : Your e-mail account access has been disabled. However, when trying to login through the

I was able to go to the, 'forgot password' Get bounced back with the error message 550 That does not work, messages sent to the acount I have also deleted and re-added the account in OS X Mail. We tried the repair keychain trick, it did not work.