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 <gordo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Create an outlook account, should work fine. Had the same problem. > > > Gordon > > On 24 May 2016 at 12:24, Matt Falvey <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au > <mailto:mmfal...@bigpond.net.au>> 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 <http://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 > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> >
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