.Mac mail servers today: keep asking for password

[Charles Jacobs]

On Oct 7, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Lawrence Sica wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Jeremy Anthony Kinsey wrote:
>> On Oct 6, 2006, at 11:38 PM, Charles Dyer wrote:
>>
>>> On 06 Oct, 2006, at 17:30, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>
> Not had any such problems here.  I am on the US East Coast...

There are 2 of us with .mac accounts here (on the US west coast),  
and, weirdly, one of the accounts seems to have this problem  
constantly (in fact, it's offline right now), and the other far less  
often. Even the well-behaved account craps out often enough for .mac  
to be a ripoff, though.

--chuck