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
> 
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