Re: Mail retrieving hotmail email

[Matt Falvey]

Thanks Gordon, it took a lot of time but creating a new outlook imap account 
was the only way around it while making the Pop account inactive.

Thanks for the heads up.

Matt.


> On 24 May 2016, at 5:31 pm, Gordon Wragg  wrote:
> 
> Create an outlook account, should work fine.  Had the same problem.
> 
> 
> Gordon
> 
> On 24 May 2016 at 12:24, Matt Falvey  > wrote:
> Hi, I have had a problem with the Mail app that started about a week ago, 
> without me changing anything on the Mail app. 
> 
> Mail is set to retrieve my hotmail from live.com  and has 
> been doing so for years without a problem.
> 
> All of a sudden it has started asking me for a password, constantly.
> 
> I type the password in and it does not work.
> 
> I go the MSN and click the link to outlook mail and I get in straight away. I 
> check my password for it in Safari preferences and it is the same as the one 
> I have always used in Mail.
> 
> So I reenter it in Mail and again it keeps asking me for the password 
> constantly.
> 
> Any ideas as to how I can fix this?
> 
> Take care.
> 
> Matt Falvey
> Noranda W. Australia
> 
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Re: Mail retrieving hotmail email

[Gordon Wragg]

Create an outlook account, should work fine.  Had the same problem.


Gordon

On 24 May 2016 at 12:24, Matt Falvey  wrote:

> Hi, I have had a problem with the Mail app that started about a week ago,
> without me changing anything on the Mail app.
>
> Mail is set to retrieve my hotmail from live.com and has been doing so
> for years without a problem.
>
> All of a sudden it has started asking me for a password, constantly.
>
> I type the password in and it does not work.
>
> I go the MSN and click the link to outlook mail and I get in straight
> away. I check my password for it in Safari preferences and it is the same
> as the one I have always used in Mail.
>
> So I reenter it in Mail and again it keeps asking me for the password
> constantly.
>
> Any ideas as to how I can fix this?
>
> Take care.
>
> Matt Falvey
> Noranda W. Australia
>
>
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