04-21-2014, 03:56 AM
mrlynn wrote:
What could have changed between yesterday and today?
I can offer one scenario:
When Mail has trouble communicating with a server, it pops up a request for you to re-enter your password.
This is a dangerous prompt. The password window pops up for just about any problem Mail encounters nomatter how trivial and brief and most people mis-type their password in this box at least once. Then it saves the bad password which creates more connection errors, this time for a legitimately bad password.