.Mac mail servers today: keep asking for password

[Kevin Callahan]

On Oct 7, 2006, at 5:43 AM, Jeremy Anthony Kinsey wrote:

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> On Oct 6, 2006, at 11:38 PM, Charles Dyer wrote:
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>> On 06 Oct, 2006, at 17:30, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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>>> are others feeling the pain: .Mac mail servers continue to ask  
>>> for password ?
>>
>> This has been happening since I updated to 10.4.8. Not all the  
>> time, just often enough to be annoying.   I filed a bug report  
>> with Apple on the matter a while back.
>
> I know I am done with .Mac as a result.  It is way too unreliable.   
> I have reminder on my iCal and .Mac is supposed to send those  
> reminder to me.  Twice now because of these problems it has not,  
> and as a result cost me $60.
>
> So long .Mac.....
>
> -jer

I used to see this problem a lot with Panther Mail ..  it seemed to  
have disappeared with Tiger.  I don't think I got the alert more than  
once with Tiger since the release, until this past week - and it's  
been incessant.