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1a.: Email app options? From: texasexpediter
1b.: Re: Email app options? From: Glenn Gutierrez

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1a.: Email app options?

Posted by: "texasexpediter" K5LDB.Leo@gmail.com texasexpediter

Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:46 am (PDT)

With my pc I used Firefox and had a tab for yahoo mail and a tab for gmail and now and then a tab to check the other two. With my new MBP I clicked on the stamp with the eagle and put my 4 emails into it. On one of the two yahoo emails it repeatedly asks for my password even though I click save to the keychain. Also, it repeatedly puts a tilde next to it and makes it offline or something.

Is there a good email freeware or shareware?

Is it better to just use Safari and go online like I used to?

Thanks for any and all advice.

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1b.: Re: Email app options?

Posted by: "Glenn Gutierrez" yah@glenngutierrez.com glenng@ymail.com

Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:04 pm (PDT)

On 26 Jun 2012, at 10:37 AM, texasexpediter wrote:

> With my pc I used Firefox and had a tab for yahoo mail and a tab for gmail and now and then a tab to check the other two. With my new MBP I clicked on the stamp with the eagle and put my 4 emails into it. On one of the two yahoo emails it repeatedly asks for my password even though I click save to the keychain. Also, it repeatedly puts a tilde next to it and makes it offline or something.
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> Is there a good email freeware or shareware?
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> Is it better to just use Safari and go online like I used to?
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> Thanks for any and all advice.

Aside from my more-reliable Gmail and private server email accounts, I have some older ones on Yahoo, Live (MS) and AOL. They randomly error out, telling Mail that my password is wrong when it worked 5 minutes prior, and that causes Mail to turn around and ask for your password again. You can hit 'Cancel' to leave your password as-is.

If you are using IMAP with these services, you could try reverting to good old POP3/SMTP. That's slightly less error-prone, since it's simpler.

But it's not Apple Mail at fault. Any remote email app will have the same problem if the server doesn't act right.

G

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