[Dovecot] Problems with Apple Mail: Enter Password for Account "..."

[francwalter at gmx.net]

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