At Wed May 22 18:16:44 EEST 2013 Professa Dementia professa wrote:
This is one of my pet peeves about Apple Mail and to some extent, outlook. If *any* error occurs during the authentication phase, Apple Mail, usually mistakenly, displays the error about bad login credentials.
Ok, this is already a relief, that not my good Dovecot is the main problem :)
These errors may include such things as network problems, DNS issues, local mailstore errors or corruption, issues with the mail server not related to authentication, such as file locks, etc.
This makes the search a bit more difficult, I guess.
Besides being annoying, and misleading, Apple Mail will invalidate your saved password, requiring you to enter it again.
And I didn’t enter it again, but just cancelled the message, I wonder that mail would really has invalidated it.
First look in your logs (Finder > Applications/Utilities > Console) to see if there are any errors.
Where exactly? I don’t know where I find the apple mail logs, I have to try system.log and secure.log the next time.
... temporarily use a non-SSL connection for mail and a network sniffer like Wireshark to watch the transaction…. Dem
I will try this next time! Thank you very much, Dem.
frank